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Saturday, February 28, 2015

An hÓiche Beo

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Chonaic muid an h-óiche eile an dráma nua le Conor McPherson. Bhí sé taibiú ar an Cois Thiar le " An hÓiche Beo ." Chuaigh Léna ...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Militarized America

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Tom Engelhardt warns of machine guns in NYC, part of the shunting by Homeland Security of over $5 billion in equipment to local police, incl...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Facelessness + the Gyges Effect

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As I teach about the Ring of Gyges that in Plato's fable granted invisibility to its wearer for better or worse, I was intrigued by this...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Michael Punke's "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge": Review

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Attacked by a grizzly, soon after left to die as his fellow trappers flee an attack by natives, forced to crawl and scoot along to escape ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Ryan Pyle's "Chinese Turkestan": Book Review

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Ryan Pyle, an award-winning Canadian photographer who travels around and beyond his adapted Chinese home, presents a look at Xinjiang, for...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

D. F. Bailey's "White Light Meditation": E-Book Review

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I'm curious about meditative practices outside of a religious framework and ritual observance. I also wonder about those that, as D. F...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Ivanka DiFelice's "A Zany Slice of Italy": Book Review

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Forced out of her stockbroker's job during the recession, Ivanka DiFelice and her first-generation Canadian husband, David, decide to ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Níos mó ná fiche bliain

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Is dóigh linn go minic go raibh Lá Vailintín ag ceangail leis grá. Ach, tá grá go mbeidh i bhfoirmeachaí éagsúlaí againn. Shíl mé faoi an ...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Amazon Fire HD6 Tablet: Review

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My wife bought one last autumn so she could read the New Yorker easily and check e-mail and browse the web on the road more easily than on...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Sennheiser HD429 Headphones: Review

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I always wanted a pair of Sennheisers, and I found these via Amazon more cheaply ($60) than many previous reviewers report. My price limit...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Kindle Touch: my review

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I'll look at ergonomics, files, battery life, Prime Lending Library, public library access. and public domain free texts. I received a...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Ruth Kinna (ed.) "The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism": Book Review

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Anarchism resists centralized dictates. easy categorization or top-down organization. Hence, scholarly work on anarchist movements ha...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Nicholas Smaligo's "The Occupy Movement Explained": Book Review

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Correcting misconceptions that the Occupy Movement suddenly erupted and just as rapidly fizzled, Nicholas Smaligo argues in this brisk, sh...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Joanna Freer's "Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture": Book Review

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When the Sixties began, Thomas Pynchon had just graduated from Cornell. At twenty-two, ideally placed to comment upon and participate ...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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