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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Secretary of the Arts
Quincy Jones is petitioning President Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. Many other countries, including South Africa, Canada, Australia, Cambodia, and Ireland, have a Minister of Arts and Culture or some such appointment.
A petition is floating about to show support for the idea.
And here are several nominee ideas from the cultural studies nerds [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
On the brighter side of the politics of kinship
Gay mayors may be stalking our youth, but in the meantime the U.S. military is developing a new tool to improve the lives of children of military personnel serving long tours overseas. It is called “Virtual Application Software for Families of Deployed Service Members,” and it uses voice recognition software to play messages recorded by [...]
