Dystopian Sex
“How was it for you?!” A little while ago, I posted about Jerome K. Jerome’s landmark essay, The New Utopia. That little writ inspired Zamyatin’s We, Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984. Each...
View ArticleOligarchs
Because the Americans would never do that… I don’t think anyone is surprised to learn that the new ‘Maidan’ government in the Ukraine has appointed a handful of oligarchs to rule over industry-rich,...
View ArticleSatan’s Diary
Leonid Andreyev by Ilya Repin. I was browsing Librivox yesterday (Walpurgis Night, the night witches party on Mt. Brocken) when I found something that blew my socks off. Satan’s Diary is a play written...
View ArticleOur Cultural Problem
How may spies does it take to spy on a spy? I’m going to share a post today that expands on Poul Henning Kamp’s observation: NSA surveillance is a political problem, not a technological one. Quinn...
View ArticleRainbow Brite does ZunZuneo
Thank you, maahs.deviantart.com I’ve noticed an uptick in people hitting my site having searched for ‘Jed Sunden’ lately. “Great,” I thought, “He’s back in the news.” So I did a ‘Google News’ search on...
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