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One Year After Boston: Our Own Terror Attacks Go On

One year ago this morning Glenn Greenwald, Juan Cole, Gary Younge and others expressed outraged and sympathy over the Boston Marathon bombings--along with criticism that few Americans voice any concern over the numerous innocents killed in our terror drone attacks abroad.   From Greenwald, still at The Guardian: 

The widespread compassion for yesterday's victims and the intense anger over the attacks was obviously authentic and thus good to witness. But it was really hard not to find oneself wishing that just a fraction of that compassion and anger be devoted to attacks that the US perpetrates rather than suffers. These are exactly the kinds of horrific, civilian-slaughtering attacks that the US has been bringing to countries in the Muslim world over and over and over again for the last decade, with very little attention paid....

Juan Cole this morning makes a similar point about violence elsewhere. Indeed, just yesterday in Iraq, at least 42 people were killed and more than 250 injured by a series of car bombs, the enduring result of the US invasion and destruction of that country. Somehow the deep compassion and anger felt in the US when it is attacked never translates to understanding the effects of our own aggression against others.

Jonah and the Wail

Jonah from "Veep" featured in Funny or Die "equal time" Cosmos for creationists.


Creationist Cosmos from Funny Or Die

Rust Never Bleeps?

New site mashes up "True Detective" and "The Family Circus," with Rust Cohle quotes.  Naturally, it's titled, "Times is a Flat Circus."

Correction of the Day

WSJ piece on the great Alan "Eli Gold" Cumming returning to Cabaret is pretty colorful, but they got one detail wrong (and to suggest he needs one).  See bottom:

An earlier version of this article incorrectly said that Mr. Cumming was wearing a cod piece as part of his costume.

A 'Titanic' Song

Re-worked and updated version of the Carter Family classic, to mark today's anniversary, and also the basis for the recent 14-minute Dylan epic.

Going, Going..."Gone"?

I didn't care for the novel, but so many did, so here's first trailer for David Fincher's "Gone Girl," with terrible Elvis Costello cover.  They could have at least used Gram Parsons' quite different "She."

Schumer & Sorkin

Josh Charles, an Aaron Sorkin vet, sends him up on Amy Schumer's show last night, in "The Food Room."


Inside Amy Schumer
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Black LIke Me

Lewis Black at the National Press Club yesterday on why he's a socialist--"enforced Christianity"--which he called the least powerful position in America.  Laughs that anyone would call Obama a socialist.  My book on when the world's most famous Socialist, Upton Sinclair, nearly became governor of California.

100 Years After Ludlow

Marking the 100th anniversary this month of the infamous anti-labor "Ludlow Massacre," where 20 died, including 11 or more chileren.  Woody Guthrie, of course, sang about it.

Dough!

Another for April 15:  The Kinks revealed "the taxman's taken all my dough" when they recorded "Sunny Afternoon" over 45 years ago.