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As the convoy of 18 SUVs pulls to a halt on the narrow road above Sanjiang, Wenchuan county, Sichuan, the gleeful shrieks of an excited crowd float upwards through the autumnal mist. The vehicles have made the three-hour journey from the provincial capital Chengdu, spending two hours of it...
True Blood's vampires have "come out of the coffin" since the Japanese invented synthetic blood (sold as Tru Blood [sic], in six-packs). Humans are skeptical that they've really been taken off the menu--antivamp hate crimes abound--but they're also fascinated. There's a subculture of...
It's an inversion of the usual '60s-retrospective equation (J.F.K. + space = optimism). But what makes Mad Men great TV is how it subverts our expectations. Thus the philandering Don turns out to be Peggy's biggest backer in the sexist office. Thus Peggy in turn is not a persecuted...
Meanwhile, political experts assured us that it was too early in the election cycle for much of this to matter. The public polls have been rather steady over the last month, with Obama maintaining a small, if slowly growing lead over McCain, which is far below the knock-out advantage...
Tough going, but it seems of interest that this inward turn proves so pervasive, even inevitable, in every form of online expression. If the furious e-mail is the product of being concealed from other tangible humans, being nevertheless laid bare to them may induce this pathological self-consciousness. Consider...