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Genius grant to jazz's Regina Carter; Free video-editing software; Elephants, and camels; Matt Taibbi scolds us

3:46 AM Tue, Sep 19, 2006 |
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carter.jpgA MacArthur Foundation grant -- a half-million dollars and no expectations -- goes to jazz violinist Regina Carter: 'I'll Be Seeing You', subject of the June story at NPR at that link.

MacArthur Foundation Names Recipients of 'Genius' Awards at philanthropy.com includes the full list of 25 lucky ducks.

Free video editing software list for all platforms, from Tv.isg.si, which bills itself as "an internet television and personal video archive."

daliphantx.jpgBacking into this: How Dali's elephants led me to National Geographic's Camel Shadows. Which somehow led to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

Americans in Denial about 9/11: By Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. Sample:

For the most part, America looks pretty much like it looked before 9/11. We spend most of our time pounding Ding-Dongs and Sonic burgers, watching ESPN and surfing porn sites, while transnational corporations -- the silent allies of drug cartels and warlords in the dismantling of the traditional nation-state -- install turnstiles in Congress and steadily move our entire manufacturing economy overseas. Our culture is a parade of idiot reality shows where ordinary citizens eat caterpillars for money and Southern jocks drive moving billboards in a circle at 200 mph in front of euphoric crowds of a hundred thousand. In the intellectual north, our braver political dissidents dress in T-shirts with the face of George Bush morphed onto a pig's body and watch documentaries in which other intellectuals brag about being tricked by the Republicans into voting to invade the wrong country.

Nobody seems neutral about Taibbi's writing. The commenters jump all over him.

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