Ben Blatt for Slate: "A Textual Analysis of The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins’ favorite adjectives, adverbs, and ways of starting a sentence."
Theodore Dalrymple for City Journal writes about the significance of Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange: "A Prophetic and Violent Masterpiece"
Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols for Monthly Review: "The Bull Market: Political Advertising"
Andrea Bennett for Adbusters: "Disaster Advertising: Your mental environment just got a little more saleable."
Garry Watson in Cineaction: "Michael Moore: A Man on a Mission or How Far a Reinvigorated Populism Can Take Us"
I've been working to expand my year-by-year top films from two to three choices (with the ultimate goal of a top ten running from 1930 - present). So it was a pleasant surprise when I came across Justine Smith on House of Mirth and Movies and saw that she has compiled an impressive and daunting year-by-year top ten list of films from 1925-2011 (she also has an interesting regular series of postings on the top ten films viewed each month)
Jeremy Daw for AlterNet: " Mass Federal Raids on Colorado Pot Hint at a Crackdown Pattern: This week's raids occurred almost simultaneously with Colorado's issuance of the first retail marijuana license in the world." Jacob Sullum at Forbes also reports on this: "Medical Marijuana Raids In Colorado Raise Questions About Federal Forbearance"
Donovan Norris for The Eastern Progress: Colonel Mascot Evokes Eastern Kentucky University's Racist Past
Two discussions in Progress Lex about the future of Lexington, KY. Check out the comments on both posts by Danny: Tanzi Merritt: "We Support Local and International Art" and Steve Kay: "Lean Urbanism and Gentrification"
Anthropologist/Geographer David Harvey is interviewed in Jadaliyya: "On Why Struggles Over Urban Space Matter."
Sarah Goodyear for Atlantic Cities: "A Horrifying Story of 'Stop and Frisk' Taken to Its Logical Extreme."
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