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RIP, Thomas Kincade, who will be welcomed into Middlebrow Paradise, where he will be greeted by the Archangel Meh-chael. Serenaded by Muzak, he will stroll through vistas of not-altogether-unpleasant pastoral views, and everyone will be more or less satisfied for all eternity as they walk the streets of Pleather. Finally, he will be welcomed into […]
A deaf, 26-year-old Prince George’s Community College student took his cue and spoke to President Obama in his first language: American Sign Language. “I am proud of you,” Stephon signed. The president, almost involuntary, instinctively, immediately signed back. “Thank you,” Obama replied. In Stephon’s words from Distriction I regret I could have done better holding […]
Smart Girl Alert! Last week, after a little more than two hours and 200 words and many microphone adjustments, an adorable smarty-pants in a bumble-bee striped shirt named Lori Anne Madison, beat about 21 other spellers and was crowned the 34th Prince William County Spelling Bee champion. The win qualifies the pixie-haired tyke for the […]
Why politics exists….a quote by Jacques Rancière “Politics exists because those who have no right to be counted as speaking beings makes themselves of some account, setting up a community by placing in common a wrong that is nothing more than this very confrontation, the contradiction of two worlds in a single world: the world […]