{PBJFlorida} Fwd: We Are All Aboard the Pequod

Short article.  Worth reading.

Not that it will make much difference though...

Waiting for a tide of indignation (even a ripple would be encouraging...),

jim

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From: Truthdig <newsletter@truthdig.com>
Date: July 8, 2013, 3:32:52 PM EDT
To: jim@communitycreatives.org
Subject: We Are All Aboard the Pequod
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Drilling beneath the headlines DAILY.

>> TRUTHDIG ORIGINALS:

Column: Chris Hedges on America's Fate
"We Are All Aboard the Pequod" -- Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is a portrait of the American character, and like the crew of Ahab's ship we are complicit in self-annihilation.

Column: Judy Balaban on the George Zimmerman Trial
"Dick and Trayvon ... Connect the Dots" -- This is a fitting moment to recall that 15 months ago, on the weekend of March 22, 2012, all print, radio and TV news was dominated by two seemingly disconnected stories.

Column: Bill Blum on the FISA Court
"The Most Secretive Court in America May Also Be the Most Conservative" -- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a unique judicial body, not only in terms of its procedures but in terms of the political leanings of its judges, who comprise a panel so uniformly Republican that the five-justice right-wing majority on the current Supreme Court appears positively liberal in comparison.

Book Review: Allen Barra on Chuck Thompson's "Better Off Without 'Em"
"Better Off Without 'Em" -- "It's too bad that we just didn't let the South secede when we had the chance," Chuck Thompson writes.

>> ARTS & CULTURE:

Margaret Barra Interviews Filmmaker Neil Jordan
"Neil Jordan Returns to Bloodsuckers With 'Byzantium'" -- It's been nearly 20 years since "The Crying Game" auteur Neil Jordan directed Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in "Interview With the Vampire."

>> PROFILES:

Truthdigger of the Week
"Truthdiggers of the Week: NSA Protesters" -- Too many Americans lack the courage to call their leaders liars and demand that their government return their civil liberties, but not those who rallied on Independence Day, and not journalist Madiha R. Tahir.

Keep on digging!

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