Category: Television
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Faint Praise.
I’m posting this as I leave for a wedding. As I depart, bogey perversity insists I ask you, Who is Don Draper? This was the question that inspired me to read Barbara Ehrenreich’s The Hearts of Men. Don Draper, enigmatic and alone, is the postmodern man from your worst fantasy. Still predatory, no longer derogatory. This…
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tis black/out back.
The only reason this post isn’t called this fuckin’ ‘verse! is cos I was scared of the search-spam said title would generate. I have been burned, and I repent, whatever Gibbon might think. Well, then. Last month the mylaw books column was all about women. It was an exercise I undertook with a fair measure…
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Via Media
I was once asked to comment on a paper called “How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru” in law school. Montesinos was the Head of Intelligence in Peru in the ‘90s, when Fujimori was in power. Via SIN (how’s that for evocative language?), he bribed his bosses’ way into power. He paid off parliament members, judges,…
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Their, Their Sex.
My closest school friend turned 24 yesterday (happy b’day, deevan!). I am not scheduled to do so for another five months, but her birthday has always seemed like the onset of mine, splitting the year into neat halves: until June 30 I am 23-and-a-bit; on July 1, I am almost-24. For most of my life…