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POPSFree Ebook Website This is a site that allows you to read books free online, or download a pdf for anywhere from free to 8.99
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POPSMcCain Considers British Grillings If you've never seen it, the UK Prime Minister appears regularly before the members of parliament for a sometimes bruising round of questions from the opposition. It would be quite a change from the current model, with communication happening indirectly through statements and press conferences.
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POPSGore Vidal: Obama better than JFK Re Clinton: "... this long campaign, this daily search for the grail, has driven her crazy.” Re McCain: You could beat McCain! ... He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into ‘war hero’.” “a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about mortgages, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks”.
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POPSMark Steyn Remembers William Buckley::Hilarious Gore Vidal Encounter The idea that William F Buckley represents a civilized conservatism lost to uncouth savages will no doubt become received wisdom in the same way that, upon his death, Ronald Reagan's success was universally ascribed by the media to an avuncular geniality wholly alien to the vengeful knuckledraggers of the Bush era. But Bill was lethal with opponents on the opposite team and on his own side, dispatching a liberal Republican like his own Senator, Lowell Weicker, to the trash can of history and purging conservatism of its crackpots so thoroughly that conspiracy theories, principally a hallmark of the right in the Fifties, were by the Sixties the more or less sole province of the left, where they've remained ever since.
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POPSIt's a hard life. Is it selfish of me to be unsympathetic? After all, how many bedrooms can each of these people sleep in at the same time? How may loos do they each use at any given time? Or are multiple orifices a benefit of fame that elude the rest of us?
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POPSIn Memory of Norman Mailer What we have lost is more than an author, it is not even a "spirit." Gore Vidal is right - it is a FORCE. A constant iconoclastic pressure, an unrelenting challenge to our lives. As we constantly sink into comfort and complacency, it was Norman Mailer who would grab us by our collar and shake us into waking. Of all the times, right now we need Norman Mailer more than ever. As the country seems poised to let the inertia for genuine change dissipate into politics as usual, who will shame us for getting comfortable at the expense of the mute suffering that is the byproduct of our current society?
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POPSnew post on cyrano ~ latest post and position at Cyrano - a real honor, now I am on the Editorial Board as Cultural and Political Analyst | Editor - contributing articles, etc - a great journal and one I'm proud to be affiliated with. Patrice Greanville is a excellent editor... a great journal.
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POPSAyn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism I read all her books about 25 years ago. It was about the time that Bobby Dylan was creating his poetry. I always felt that I chose Bobby over Ayn in the formulation of my political and social philosophy. Maybe that's why I'm not a successful, wealthy capitalists. Interesting that Allen Greenspan was such an adherent to Ayn Rand. This is a good article that summarizes the what Ayn Rand was all about.
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POPSLio Beardsley illustration
Lio Beardsley entered an Anna Sui 'Dolly Head' contest in 2003, won the grand prize, had a chance to meet Anna herself, and has worked with her ever since. In 2005, Beardsley published her first illustration book, “Into the Magical World of Delite.” Her clients include Isaten New York, Maybelline, Vidal Sassoon, IT, This is real Art(UK), Samsung and several 4A agencies. She obtained her BA degree from Hong Kong Polytechnique University. “I want to be a mixture of artist and illustrator. Artist alone may be too far fetched, subjective and difficult to understand, but illustrator is also too commercial without personal opinion. Better be both. I don't want to be just an illustrator who draws pretty things. I think it is time for us to give back to this world, to make a beautiful world not only fashion, graphic design, interior design or decoration stuffs, but the inner side of it --- being a vegetarian, my goal is to make a better and peaceful world for the beautiful creatures."
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