(via Why Your Stitches Cost $1,500 – Part Two)
Posted: May 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm.
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The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home.
(via Dorothy | Casualties of War)
Posted: May 10, 2011 at 6:09 pm.
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This tally of military suicides is outside the studio of Brooklyn artist Sebastian Errasuriz. Its power comes from its simplicity.
via Engaged Public Space and Shameless Plugs » ThickCulture
Posted: December 16, 2010 at 5:32 pm.
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Thoughts on the Palin NYT Mag Cover: Like She’s So “Homemade”
Posted: November 18, 2010 at 3:55 pm.
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Norm Magnusson’s “historical markers” along I-75, intend to provoke unthought thoughts in public spaces.
Posted: October 9, 2010 at 9:24 pm.
Sep 1
11:05 pm
These aren’t just words or phases. They are incendiary slogans that, whether spoken or billboarded to the nation as word pictures, convey that much more weight, recognition and resonance to terms, finely-crafted for cultural wedge-driving and linguistic repetition, that otherwise aren’t justified either coming off the lips of a TV talking head or floating around Main Street for a week in large, black-and-white type.
Now, the obvious reply to my complaint is that these terms are being used tongue-in-cheek. And yes, that would be justifiable if the irony was obvious. But, it’s not. Instead, just like the Muslim and terrorist stereotypes were plain to see in the ‘08 New Yorker “Obama bin Ladin” cover, but the irony wasn’t, the fact Newsweek recognized the need for the asterisk meant they fully understood that some number of these loaded phrases required not just explaining, but actually on-the-spot undoing.
Posted: September 1, 2010 at 11:05 pm.
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