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Producing
a television show about the obscene wealth and luxuries of the .01%, such... March 15, 2018Producing a television show about the obscene wealth and luxuries of the .01%, such as “Million Dollar Rooms,” where it was claimed that a suite or house or whatever rented at a rate of $160,000 a week, which is pretty ludicrous (around $8 million / year if filled at that quoted rate), presumably doesn’t think too much about the political consequences of its […]
- "And that’s why, like it or not, we need developments like Chroma— and lots of them. Chroma’s..." March 13, 2018“And that’s why, like it or not, we need developments like Chroma— and lots of them. Chroma’s ugliness is unconscionable, but privileging aesthetics over affordability is exactly what ruined the Village (and San Francisco’s Mission, and Chicago’s Wicker Park, and D.C.’s DuPont Circle, and—).” - Condo-Maximum | Kyle Paoletta
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Anniversary
Tomorrow is the official anniversary of my “confer date.” I received my Ph.D. from Stanford University on the 24th. Now, to be sure, I’m not clear where that date came from. My signed dissertation was turned in at least a … Continue reading
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Regimes
The number of autocratic regimes of the past from 1950 (or so) to 2005 (or so) is in dispute. There are 700 heads of state in years in which these nation-states are coded as autocratic. But of course, a change … Continue reading
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Reform
It is the nature of time to continue moving forward. Writers create texts, shape them over time, but then declare them finished, at which point they–unlike reality–cease evolving. This scares writers of non-fiction, especially those in the putatively predictive social … Continue reading
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APSA 2010
Another APSA into the history books. The last DC APSA, IIRC, was the year of Hurricane Katrina. I have memories of staying up and watching the disaster unfold through the odd medium of NOAA’s bulletins with their ALL CAPS and … Continue reading
