[He has] accepted responsibility for the columns published under his name in his local newspaper, and has apologized for not upholding the standards expected by the president.
— White House press secretary Dana Perino in a written statement expressing President Bush’s disappointment that White House aide Timothy S. Goeglein, originally recruited to work in the White House by former adviser Karl Rove, had plagiarized from the Dartmouth Review for columns he wrote for the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind.; March 1; emphasis added.
You’re used to making $17 an hour with benefits, and now you have to take any job for $8 an hour. I’ve literally sat and cried, but my friends with double degrees are doing worse. It’s the economy. It’s really bad.
— Nicole Flennaugh, 36, a widow who has a college degree and who was laid off as a customer service representative at an educational services company, and who, even after applying for dozens of full-time jobs, has been getting by with occasional stints as an office temp; March 1.
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Last September we hit you with part one of our best music videos ever, featuring Death in Vegas, The Prodigy and Pop Will Eat Itself. Powerful stuff, to say the least. Today we’re back with round two – alieNation.
Up first is Orbital’s “The Box.” I used this one in a class or two back in the late ’90s. Humanities and the Electronic Media, I think. Just a brilliant bit of short film making here – deftly captures the anomie and alienation of the postmodern urban wasteland. It’s almost magical how we can be so isolated from a character and so connected all at the same time.
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Alan Wilder of Recoil (and formerly of Depeche Mode) has some thoughts on the state of music these days.
So who shall we blame for the whole mess? Do we stick two fingers up at the record companies who have sat around twiddling their thumbs, peddling overpriced re-issues for years while their A&R men bombard us with shallow, faceless pop idol, X factor boy bands? Is it fair to say “… well, you had it coming ? Or do we accuse the casual ‘non-listener’ with the attention span of a three year old living in a disposable, homogenized, Paris Hilton-obsessed society, over stimulated with too much life choice? Full story »
