Plasma Pool » The Plasma Spring http://plasmapool.org a set of sharp and cogent notes Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 You Are Drowning http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/16/you-are-drowning/ http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/16/you-are-drowning/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:17:57 +0000 Kevin Hilke http://plasmapool.org/?p=11114 Christopher Hitchens is dead.

]]> http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/16/you-are-drowning/feed/ 0 Jerk Pork http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/07/jerk-pork/ http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/07/jerk-pork/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:39:17 +0000 Eric Freeman http://plasmapool.org/?p=11112 Several members of the NYPD are under investigation for racist Facebook messages pertaining to working the city’s West Indian American Day Parade in over Labor Day. Great job, guys!

]]> http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/07/jerk-pork/feed/ 0 Does Your Memory Stray? http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/07/does-your-memory-stray/ http://plasmapool.org/2011/12/07/does-your-memory-stray/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:31:06 +0000 Eric Freeman http://plasmapool.org/?p=11108 Glenn Kenny on Edward Yang’s amazing, just-now-getting-a-proper-release 1991 epic A Brighter Summer Day and the critical compulsion to stump for the underseen.

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