Saturday, November 6, 2021

Not Enough Abundance

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  “Abundance,” by Jakob Guanzon, 2021 This novel takes place in the hinterlands of some city, probably in the central, southerly, ‘flyover...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The Bad Gamblers

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  “Squid Game,” Season One, directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, 2021 (a few spoilers ahead…) Popular South Korean cinema imports have a real focu...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Machines of Communism

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  “Democracy, Planning, Big Data” by Kees Van Der Pijl, 4/2020 Monthly Review If you’ve run into some old codger leftists who distain comp...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Know-Nothings and Know-It-Alls

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“After the Fact? The Truth About Fake News,” by Marcus Gilroy-Ware, 2020 Not sure what to say about this book.  Filled with somewhat common ...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Space Truckin'

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  “Dune” Part 1, film by Denis Villenueve, 2021 Dune is based on the 1965 book by Frank Herbert.   Watching this version switches you bac...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Professor Bites the PMC

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  “Virtue Hoarders – the Case Against the Professional-Managerial Class,” by Catherine Liu, 2021 This is a book that could have used more ...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

People's Democracy?

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   “Like Ho Chi Minh! Like Che Guevara! – The Revolutionary Left in Ethiopia,” 1969-1979, Ian Scott Horst This is a detailed book on the ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Car Cultured

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  The Trials of Traffic And no, not the band.   I just drove from Minneapolis in the North-Central part of the U.S. to Georgia, in the Sou...