Kulture
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Why I Don't Invest
If you're an investor, you probably aren't reading this. You're watching MSNBC. You also probably have tunnel vision. I know. I used to be one.
06.11.2000 | Culture -
Ace Frehley Is My Copilot
Rock and Roll all night, party every day. The hang over lasts decades, smells like grease paint and costs $19 to get into.
05.25.2000 | Culture -
Roma in the Czech Republic: Resisting Denial
Euro-Jim Crow and racial violence are alive and well on the Old Continent. Gwendolyn Albert looks at the current plight of Gypsies in Central Europe and wonders what century we are in.
05.18.2000 | Society -
Pork or Dead Pig?
Animal rights activist Paul Kail on the language of species domination, or Why we say "pork" and not "dead pig."
05.16.2000 | Society -
Taking Animals Seriously
Animals can't write screeenplays, but then neither can most humans. Animal rights activist and neuroscientist Pail Kail explains why such comparisons aren't as crazy as they sound.
03.23.2000 | Society -
A Fucked-Up Situation: Trafficking in Women
The global sex trade is a multi-billion dollar a year industry involving tens of thousands of poor women. Gwendolyn Albert looks at who is being sold, who is making the money, and why it isn't being stopped.
03.21.2000 | Society -
Forget About It
Zoltan Bez Kalhoty had a problem with the 20th century. Now he has a problem with anyone who doesn't know things have changed.
02.23.2000 | Society -
The Causes of World War III, Dilbert vs. Snoopy and Other Reflections on Current Events
Milkmoney Jones looks at some recent news stories and decides he wants his mommy.
02.23.2000 | Society -
"THIS IS YOUR DAY!" with Benny Hinn and Friends
"THIS IS YOUR DAY!" with Benny Hinn is an impressively slick televangelist operation. Between subtle psychological manipulation and celebrity appearances, it has a percentage of Middle America in the palm of its gilded hand.
02.23.2000 | Society -
Whitey on the Moon (Revisited)
Who won the Post Office's "Celebrate the Century" ballot? Are these voters the real arbiters of history? Or, did Ayn Rand get it right when she wrote a 1970 piece called "Apollo and Dionysus." She declared the two forces coined by Nietzsche to represent "the fundamental conflict of the age", are Cape Kennedy and Woodstock--embodying both principles in "pure, extreme, isolated form."
09.14.1998 | Society





