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Healthcare IS a Right

13 August 2009 · 2 Comments

Healthcare is a human right.  But as the healthcare debate drags on here in the US, its legitimacy as a right is under attack.
Eddie (friend from college) shared on Facebook today an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, “The Whole Foods Alternative To ObamaCare”:
Many promoters [...]

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Cut the Corny Crap

21 July 2009 · 4 Comments

I’ve recently seen this ad on TV and YouTube:

The ad was made by Americans Against Food Taxes, an interest group that includes some big agro-businesses and industrial fast food producers who are opposed to a proposed tax on soft drinks and juice drinks, in other words, beverages that contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Pardon the [...]

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New track: NO2H8

18 November 2008 · 0 Comments

Listen to my latest musical composition, NO2H8, based on audio I recorded of speeches at the Protest Against Prop 8 this Sunday and some organ and synth tracks of “deconstructed” Mendelsohn’s Wedding March.
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Protest Against Prop 8 – NYC

15 November 2008 · 1 Comment

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Response to “On the Rights of Molotov Man”

7 November 2008 · 8 Comments

In the February 2007 Harper’s Magazine article, “On the Rights of Molotov Man: Appropriation and the art of context,” painter Joy Garnett and photographer Susan Meiselas debate the bounds of copyright and how decontextualizing and “remixing” images affects meaning.  

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