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...offs we can't afford or escape. And the CFPA is supposed to be the new sheriff in town. It would be an independent agency empowered to write and enforce rules for financial products, so that banks would no longer enjoy lax consumer regulation - and nonbanks peddling loans from hell would no longer escape just about all regulation. It would be like a financial version of the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or even the Environmental Protection Agency...
...have taken up the Dongria's cause. On Feb. 8, they ran an advertisement in the Hollywood trade publication Variety urging Cameron to support them. "Avatar is fantasy ... and real," the ad said. "The Dongria Kondh tribe in India are struggling to defend their land against a mining company hell-bent on destroying their sacred mountain. Please help the Dongria." (Read "Avatar Arrives! Can James Cameron Be King Again...
...acute comprehension of society’s penchant for forcing what is foreign into a controllable compartment. “Dance with Snakes,” originally published in 1996 and now translated by Lee Paula Springer, is a four-part frenzy, a detailed depiction of the chaotic hell one man and four murderous snakes engender. Superficially a fantastical page-turner, the novel is at its core an uncompromising interrogation of authority, a gruesome satire whose pivot turns on exposing the consequences that result from a manipulated identity...
...Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Jesus Christ. What the hell is a polynomial? Jesus Christ...
...revelatory—can I say—mystical experiences. I also had soul-terrifying, damaging experiences, which I write about in the afterword. I think what is important is not the experiences people had on these drugs, which can be a trip to heaven or a trip to hell, but what you do with these experiences. Does it make you a better person, more aware, compassionate, less egocentric? These four men all did that in their own way. Their experiences influence...