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...saying goes, Sept. 11 changed everything.Rees began producing “Get Your War On” (GYWO) on Oct. 9, 2001. It used a medium he’d tried before in more apolitical strips—namely, attaching bizarre and irreverent speech bubbles to public-domain clip art images.The first strip targeted the official title of the American military operation in Afghanistan, with a clip-art businessman shouting a phrase that is now well-known to the strip’s fans: “Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom To Bomb The Living Fuck...
...According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, property rights will be the most debated issue being decided this election season, having garnered the attention of voters in 12 states, several of them dealing specifically with regulatory taking, eminent domain and in some cases both. The issue grew large after the landmark Supreme Court decision of Kelo v. City of New London, in which the High Court found that government can take private property and give it to a development interest so long as the community can enjoy some economic benefit. The 2005 decision has since found a host...
Since then, 24 state legislatures have passed laws limiting the government's ability to appropriate land for privately financed projects, and similar measures will be on 11 state ballots next week. Three of those initiatives, plus a fourth measure unrelated to eminent domain, would go even further--forcing governments to compensate anyone whose property lost value because of zoning, environmental or, in some cases, consumer-protection laws. That has opponents of these "regulatory takings" measures--in California, Arizona, Idaho and Washington--asking Blue's own question: "Where will it stop...
Democracy has reached a new frontier, and we’re not talking about the Berlin Wall. It’s a new decade and a new millennium, and yet another wall is crumbling—this time, not between countries, but in the domain of scientific research.New Internet-based journals are challenging the status quo by publishing works that have not yet passed the usual, rigorous peer-review system, giving any cyber-citizen the power to appraise many novel scientific inquiries. And it’s all too easy to underestimate the potential for science this experiment brings.The hermetic...
...Dutch Treat Amsterdam's pivotal role in the emergence of conceptual art In the audience at the original London show, the British construction magnate Robert McAlpine was so enchanted by the stage set that he decided he wanted a bit of Sleeping Beauty's magic for his own domain. So he commissioned Messel to design a suite, a penthouse, a pavilion and a roof terrace with fountain for his luxury London hotel the Dorchester. The result, which opened in 1953 and has been restored but never altered, is truly fit for a princess...