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...number of elections in which “spoilers”—like Nader—tipped the scales in favor of a less popular candidate. His examples include not only five presidential campaigns, but also a Louisiana gubernatorial race in which spoilers led to a final vote between an egregiously corrupt Democrat and a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In exhaustive detail, Poundstone describes the machinations of political camps as they seek to exploit minor parties for their own gains.Poundstone’s central argument boils down to a repudiation of the plurality...
...arguably the most technically skilled among them—Fahey was the label’s creative center. His early discography is an unparalleled example of American Primitive, but his later albums depart strongly from that movement in search of ambient and drone-oriented experimentalism. Two of his final albums, “The Mill Pond” and “Womblife,” go as far as abandoning the language of acoustic guitar in favor of churning, feedback-heavy noise-passages. Fahey’s relentless creative antagonism made him a figure of inspiration for artists like...
...makes you feel as if, despite knowing who Mac was, you are just now really meeting him—a fact that makes his untimely death all the more tragic. You can’t help but appreciate “Soul Men” as a final symbol of Mac’s contributions to comedy and pop culture. And although it is flawed, “Soul Men” is a movie worth seeing at the very least for the crude stylings of an underappreciated comic genius. —Staff writer Jessica O. Matthews...
...sense of the word that Gibran understands it, is life itself and the way we choose to live it: “Is not religion all deeds and all reflection /...all your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.”And yet, the final teaching of the work is sadly pessimistic. The character of the prophet speaks from Gibran’s experience of being multicultural and never quite fitting in anywhere. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise...
Plumber, Joe the • final CNN interview with is not enjoyed...