August 2012
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andanotherthingtoo: Gorgeous Alex Ross cover painting from an ish of Grant Morrison’s bugnuts Batman run, which is arguably the best stuff done with the character since the days of the great, underrated Doug Moench/Kelly Jones team. Interiors by Tony Daniel, which Sandu Florea inked with his ass.
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A page from Paul Pope’s unbelievably good Strange Adventures strip in DC’s awesome, AWESOME Wednesday Comics, a full-blown broadsheet newspaper with work by a couple dozen of the best artists and writers working.
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Gustave Moreau, Herakles and the Hydra
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William Saletan wrote what may be the single stupidest column in the history of American electoral coverage, which has a long and lamentable history, over at Slate, on the subject of this complete nitwit Paul Ryan. Paul Krugman, Nobel-winning economist, has a suitably harsh rebuttal over at the NYT on his blog, which is rapidly…
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To be fair, I always wondered what it would be like to live in East Germany.
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Piff, the Magic Dragon on Penn & Teller. Very funny magician, pretty great trick; if you don’t want to know how they did it, skip the bit from 6:40 to 7:00. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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David Rakoff wasn’t merely a talented essayist, he was a sweet, funny, astonishingly pleasant guy and I’m sorry he’s dead, though it comes as no surprise to anyone, least of all him. If you haven’t yet read Don’t Get Too Comfortable or Half Empty, I envy you those first readings. I interviewed him once. He made an…
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Solid as Iraq.
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I really wish we could do something about this. July is the hottest month on record
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Look at the worldly and at the whole world that exalts itself above the people of God; are the image of God and his truth not distorted in it? They have science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. But the spiritual world, the higher half of man’s being, is altogether…
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