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Why I won't be watching the Super Bowl
The Super Ball will be piped into tents in Afghanistan, ships on the Straits of Oman, turrets on the 49th parallel in Korea, and the weightlessness of the International Space Station. It will also have a third of the country’s population watching — but this year it won’t have me.
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Growing up in the Bronx
I am looking forward to hearing Arlene Alda on February 3 when she talks about her book, Just Kids from The Bronx: Telling It The Way It Was, at the Jewish Museum. If she'd asked for my recollections, here's what I would have told her.
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Questions of truth and identity
Beneath the burden of truth lies the questions of art
Needing for absolute truth, we create absolute power to defend that truth. Can the ambiguity within art assist us in embracing the paradoxes of living and eliminate the need for this boundless power?
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I love the snow
There are three reasons to love snow; they're the same three reasons for loving anything.
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Raising the bar, dimming the lights
Nobody truly appreciates a good book the first time he or she sees it.
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Accidental poetry
Our time is less than infinite, and our monkey minds are full to bursting with the blather — so much of it repetitive, hucksterish, or simply dull — of everyday life. I say, take your poetry wherever you find it.
Anndee Hochmanand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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The Russian Roulette theory of history
Russian roulette is a dangerous game
Why did the archduke’s assassination trigger a war when other crises didn’t? And is that a useful question, or does it obscure a more important truth?
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How do we get our news?
Breaking: BSR contributor launches newsfeed!
We have all become fairly sloppy about where we look for information to feed our minds and possibly act on. However, it is what it is, and in that spirit I am happy to announce that on December 18, I transformed my Twitter feed into a highly respected newsfeed.
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Remembering my mother-outlaw
Judy was an outlaw. She disdained phony niceness, Republican grandstanding, and ambitious young women who claimed they weren’t really feminists. She was direct and uncensored; if you gave her a book she’d read before, she nudged it aside.
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An autistic artist communicates
The power of art
I was moved by seeing all of those little brown faces become more animated as the half hour went by and all pretense of cool faded away. They were so excited about art and life.
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