“were Paleolithic cave painters high on psychedelic drugs?”
I’m fascinated by cave paintings and the earliest works of art humans have created, so this intrigues me hugely.
AlterNet
question of the weekend: Is the Internet killing organized religion?
Note that I’m not asking if the Internet will kill all spirituality, just the way we see spirituality co-opted and corralled by the major and minor organized religions.
please tell me what you think this ad is saying…
The idea it is selling is directly connected to the crap outspoken women on the Net get pummeled with on a regular basis. I’m sick of it.
question of the day: Do film and TV production subsidies provided by local governments make sense?
Subsidies bring in jobs, right? Or are they a convenient windfall for projects that would have happened anyway?
question of the day: Has the era of the female hero arrived?
Katniss Everdeen. Snow White. Lisbeth Salander. Are we finally starting to see heroine’s journeys?
must reads: “Why Is TV Suddenly Overstuffed With Buxom Bunnies, Sexy Stewardesses, and Charlie’s Angels?”
Gosh, it’s like the 60s — the early 60s — are returning with a vengeance.
question of the day: Are Hollywood superhero stories American wish-fulfillment fantasies?
Does the glut of superhero movies coming our way represent a subconscious desire for an America gone wrong to right itself again?
question of the weekend: Is a new intellectual culture taking shape in America?
If so, can it happen fast enough to save us?
what he said: Chris Hedges of Truthdig…
…about the end of a free and vigorous press…
question of the day: Why do Americans love the Super Bowl so much?
The numbers are in: 111 million Americans watched the Super Bowl on Sunday. What was in it for all of them?
