Ben Gazzara as Charles Bukowski explains Style
Ben Gazzara performs Charles Bukowski’s poem “Style,” from Marco Ferreri’s film Tales of Ordinary Madness.

How We Cured “the Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself
Fifty years later, a new discovery of poverty is long overdue. This time, we’ll have to take account not only of stereotypical Skid Row residents and Appalachians, but of foreclosed-upon suburbanites, laid-off tech workers, and America’s ever-growing army of the “working poor.”

The Overheated, Oversexed Cult of Bikram Choudhury
At an advanced teacher-training session in San Diego, the inventor of “hot yoga” instructs a new generation of gurus. Is he leading them to enlightenment—or hosting a giant hookup party?

Books Women Read When No One Can See the Cover
Kindles, iPads and Nooks “are the ultimate brown paper wrapper,” says Brenda Knight, associate publisher at Cleis Press, of Berkeley, Calif., a publisher of erotica since 1980.

At a DUMBO bookstore, Kate Bolick and others sing the praises of singledom, and assess its costs
The lecture, moderated by writer Daniel Smith, reflected on two recent looks at the rise of ‘single-dom.’

Godin to authors: You have no right to make money any more
The rise of the amateur, powered by the democratization of distribution provided by the Web and social media, is something that is disrupting virtually every form of content that can be converted into bits.

Women increasingly single, man increasingly sad
Even when men are desirable to women, either sexually or financially, we are not necessarily a sound romantic investment.

 Simone Jude Aims to Show Porn Stars as Real People in Public Sex, Private Lives
Society simply cannot fathom that doing sex work is a conscious choice for a lot of women. In reality, porn is not just for the desperate; it can be a job like any other. If you do it right, it can even be a career.

I Believe We May be Seeing the Beginnings of Woman Spring
I personally have heard enough of the moral and religious views of sexually repressed males who insist on humiliating, suppressing and controlling female sexuality.

Sex Worker or Therapist?
Sex Worker or Therapist?” was censored by Psychology Today on February 21 and never appeared online.

The Exegete
on the career of Philip K. Dick,up to and including The Exegesis.

Making Sure That “No” means “No,” not “Yes” or “Maybe”
I submit that the statement that clarification of “no” is a buzzkill is a tactic to get around ethical sexual consent so those interested parties can have their preferred forms of sexual high, which is
unethical to ethically-muddy sex.

Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here
Why does yoga produce so many philanderers? And why do the resulting uproars leave so many people shocked and distraught?

The Cheese & Wine Party is back in Style
American creatives dream of coming to live in Paris and the English, as much as they would hate to admit it, are absolutely obsessed with French cheese and wine.Here are a few tips to throwing the perfect
cheese & wine party
San Francisco turned me straight
I was a hardcore lesbian when I came to the famously freaky city. So how did I start sleeping with men?

This is my home’: A story that will have you grinning from ear to ear 

Here’s a delightful story about an elderly gentleman named Anthony Pisano, his whimsical knickknacks and collectibles, and his beloved cat.

Tara Browne (”He blew his mind out in a car”) - 1960’s Peacock Style icon

Tara Browne had become something of a cult figure since it was his death that inspired the lyrics of “A Day In The Life” & another song: “Death Of The Socialite” by The Pretty Things.

A Mona Lisa “twin” goes on display in Madrid.

A copy of the Mona Lisa, painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s pupils, goes on display at Madrid’s Prado Museum.

Androgynous male model Andrej Pejic to front Jean Paul Gaultier’s new men’s fragrance

Last year Mr Pejic strutted his stuff down the catwalk for a Gaultier show that toyed with the idea of James Bond’s sexual ambiguity.

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum

They hate any notion of public education, which harbors the promise, if not the threat, of actually educating students to be thoughtful, self-reflective and capable of questioning & holding power accountable

Finding Solitude in a House Share

Can living styles be fluid, like our modern paradigm of multiple careers?

Has Obama Exposed the Powerlessness of the US Bishops?
With Catholic leaders and churchgoers turning their backs on the
bishops, the men who rule the church are watching their political
power wane.

Whitney Houston’s Death is Probably Not What You Think It Is
I don’t know anything about Whitney’s cause of death. We may never
know. Unlike the media, however, I wouldn’t presume to festoon a
“drug-addict-tragedy” to her memory. I find this treatment sexist,
disrespectful— and medically, clueless. Easy prejudices are driving
this story.

Porn’s taboo transsexual stars
“T-girls” are fighting for respect in the adult biz. What does it mean
for the general acceptance of trans women?

Blood of a Dreamer: John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Cosmo is not just a man, however, but a breathing metaphor for any
artist who was ever backed into the corner of moral compromise. In a
lot of ways, you are seeing a thinly veiled story of what Cassavettes
himself had been put through as a filmmaker.

Here’s my picks

Rasputin Was My Neighbor’ And Other True Tales Of Time Travel
There are people who live long enough to create a link — a
one-generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past,
and their presence among us shrinks history.

The White Underclass
Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional
marriage. Over time, my reporting on poverty has led me to disagree:
Solid marriages have a huge beneficial impact on the lives of the poor
(more so than in the lives of the middle class, who have more cushion
when things go wrong).

Brian Busby on John Glassco and the Pleasures of Reviving Forgotten
Literary Traditions
The mystery of this life, his unconventional lifestyle, his
extraordinary books, his literary hoaxes, the beauty of his
writing—and, yes, his sexual proclivities all provided fuel for what
was ultimately a 7year project.

Tom Campbell & Anthony Peake - Consciousness Creates Reality
In this special two hour joint interview, Anthony and Tom discuss the
nature of reality and consciousness.

George Lucas discuss the changes to the Star Wars Saga
Changes are not unusual I mean, most movies when they release them
they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change,
everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Rick Santorum and the New Feminism(!)

Thanks Richard Metzger

You’d think that as the parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum would have deep empathy for a fellow parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder—or if he was a true Christian as he claims to be, even support universal healthcare for everyone’s children—but… NOPE!

Why We Got Ayn Rand Instead of FDR: Thomas Frank on How Tea Party ‘Populism’ Derailed a New New Deal

But something happened on the way to this much-anticipated swing back to the left. Instead of FDR, we got Ayn Rand. Rather than calling for programs that might alleviate some of working America’s suffering, we saw the emergence of the Tea Parties, which demanded that ordinary Americans feel every bit of pain they had coming to them – and also that we leave the Wall Street hustlers who had precipitated the crash alone.

Robert Anton Wilson Talks To Reality Hackers Forum (1988 — Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #4)

Robert Anton Wilson tries out a little bibliomancy with Finnegans Wake, and discusses the connections to European history and psycho-linguistics,Operation Mindfuck, the Vatican, and reprogramming your own brain.

Jobless man builds a house out of $1.82 billion worth of shredded money

What would you do with $1.82 billion worth of shredded money? In Ireland, people build houses out of it at least that’s what Dublin-based artist Frank Buckley did. The unemployed artist originally wanted to create a gallery for his series of mixed-media artworks called “Expressions of Recession,” but he ended up building a house instead

Zip! Looking Closely at a Strip Club

A strip club may seem like a lightweight oddity as a subject for Mr. Wiseman. But in an interview in a cafe here he was adamant that his work was not simply about “the suffering of the downtrodden.”“What I am doing,” he said, “is showing many aspects of human behavior, which makes anything that interests me a possible subject.”

Education New

Education News

Created By: Education News

“The higher education bubble, as some say, is “boom and bust theory” applied to college and graduate school. Tuition has risen over 400% since the 80s and the trend doesn’t look like it’s getting any better — in fact, in that same time span, college students have also taken on higher amounts of student debt while jumping into entry-level jobs that pay them less comparatively. The effect of this phenomenon is that today, more than ever, pre-college students and even graduates are asking the question: “Is college really worth it?” That’s a good question, and this animated infographic breaks the higher education bubble down into an understandable thing: what is it? Why does it happen? And is there hope for the future?” -Tony Shin