"In a Station of the Metro"
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough
- Ezra Pound, 1916
A weather report
"This problem greatly perplexed [me]. The Woman
had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as
sentiment, but as a force. Why was she unknown in America? For
evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise
they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her"
- Henry Adams, The Virgin & Dynamo
"In approving AT & T's $58 billion acquisition of the cable company
MediaOne - thereby making AT&T a leading provider of broadband Internet
access - the administration has ratified a change in the basic architecture
governing competition on the Internet, a change that may stifle one of the
Internet's most important features: its incentive to innovate."
- Lawrence Lessig (The New Republic)
"Critic Bob Johnson said of Dead prez's new release that it's 'All good for the hood.' But is this really true?.... There's no reason music shouldn't provoke and galvanize us--and dead prez's First Amendment rights should be protected as vigorously as anyone else's, obviously. But if all dissent must be defended as a matter of right, some cannot be defended as a matter of substance. Dead prez, with its Johnny-one-note harangues and unyielding Marxist-black nationalist dogma, is pushing far more than feel-good civic engagement. 'All good for the 'hood''? Hip-hop scribes ought to face that question more seriously."
- (The New Republic)