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...enough of a soldier to suppose you're maybe not as sad about this Christmas season - and where you're spending it - as the folks at home imagine. You Marines, you Special Forces, you B-52 pilots and Navy men standing by off distant shores - this is what you wanted to do, this is why you joined, this is what you trained for. To be there when the day came that America needed you at your toughest and strongest, needed you to be at the 'tip of the spear,' to hunt and track the source of Sept...
...times of crisis, the nation loses its short-term cultural memory - puts aside idiot movie comics, suicidal rock lyrics, must-see reality TV and the pursuit of the moral triviality that is Gary Condit - and, like a senior citizen finding solace in the distant past, rekindles that old feeling. In pop culture, at least for a while, many Americans traded in cool pop culture for warm, sarcasm for sentiment, alienation for community. In the blink of a national tragedy, we went from jaded to nice, just like that...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached new levels of barbarism this past week, nobody was talking about a peace agreement. The deal that almost came about last January is a distant memory, and so are the Oslo Accords, Sharm-el-Sheikh and the proposed Camp David agreements. Although Israelis and Palestinians need a breakthrough deal more desperately than ever before, the peace process continues to be held captive by Palestinian extremists and a trigger-happy Israeli military. According to many commentators, fault lies with the political elites. The more cynical argue that peace is impossible under the current Israeli and Palestinian leadership...
...much longer the hike is, and what's the lay of the land on the other side. See, most Wall Street coinage of this sort - remember "visibility," the summer's hot term? - is a euphemism meant to make you sound like a squinty-eyed explorer, gazing at distant horizons only you can see, when really you're not even sure where you are or whether you'll ever sleep on clean sheets again...
Just how far will our cultural obsession with images and their consumption take us? Jennifer Egan’s Look At Me is a kind of fable for our times, examining the excesses of the present and positing a possible vision of the not-so-distant future. Her conclusion is dismal: At our current rate, the juggernaut of American mass culture will inexorably crush all that stands in its path...