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≡ Category: Art, Current Affairs, Television | ≅ 4 Comments
This week, Jonathan McIntosh (of Rebellious Pixels) released a new cartoon,”Right Wing Radio Duck,” that remixes dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. The artistic work is seamless. The video is downright fun to watch. And the underlying message is entirely contemporary. A la Colbert: Keep Fear Alive. The new video [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature, Most Popular | ≅ 14 Comments
To commemorate Banned Books Week, the always great Internet Archive has opened up access to 74 banned books. The collection features some serious pieces of literature (James Joyce’s Ulysses, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, Huxley’s Brave New World, etc.); some traditional children’s classics (Winnie the Pooh); and some sinister books of unquestionable historical importance (Mein [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ Leave a Comment
Long ago, in the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, Akkadian was the dominant language. And, for centuries, it remained the lingua franca in the Ancient Near East. But then it was gradually squeezed out by Aramaic, and it faded into oblivion once Alexander the Great Hellenized (Greekified) the region. Now, 2,000+ years later, Akkadian is making [...]
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