November 2011
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Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis - James Fallows... →
Amazing vision of university campus police hurting peaceful protestors.
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A Comic Strip Review of Neal Stephenson’s Reamde... →
This review mirrors my experience. The book draws you in. However I did think it revealed some inadequacies in Stephenson’s grasp of non-American characters and locations. The British characters especially seemed like Americans with formal accents, self-consciously using American idioms. In the end it made Stephenson seem strangely parochial and unsophisticated which is not an impression...
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