An audacity of hope: art non grata?
Or is it an audacity to call it art? Its audacity not to call it art. Peter Alexander Por’s recent exhibit called Persona Non Grata- The Veil of History seemed to rile the back hairs of a large...
View Articlethe alpha male
Is age really just a number? Why do older men go for younger women. Even real younger women. Legal and over the hump of consentment. But real young. It must be the gene of the alpha male and it...
View Articlethe office: live anywhere option
Its the new frontier. Until we arrive its going to be a bumpy road. what changes will work harken in the next ten years.The Internet, telepresence and increasingly flexible management at many companies...
View Articlehitchens guide to the galaxy
To many, he might not be missed, but he left few indifferent. A collision of atheism out of the academy and into the real world. He might have done for atheism what Marcel Duchamp did for art, except...
View Articlenew frontier: beyond his grassp
Do you believe that on that day all the children of Abraham are going to lay down their swords forever and eternally in Jerusalem. What to make of Gunter Grass? The pen as sword but within the context...
View Articlegulf of hormuz rowing team
Everyone wants that little extra edge as preparatons for the Olympiad in London approach. Apparently Western athletes have been literally blazing a trail in secret training in Iran leaving in their...
View Articlefill the void: the voidoid zone
Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs...
View Articlepolitical science
The basics behind anti-Zionism and the despotic regimes, puppet enterprises around and affiliated with it can be traced back to a visceral antipathy towards colonialism in general. Colonialism as a...
View Articlehow the west was won: the fatwa tears
A valid critique of Salman Rushdie. He was put into a difficult role in which he was still an “other” articulating the emotions of the colonized, but from a privileged perched in which he could always...
View Articlefanon:betrayal of the masses
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, this theorist of revolution still echoes sentiments pertinent today but whether they are relevant in an era of post-modernism is open to...
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