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•On feminism's third wave - "an audacious sense of entitlement."


•Building the DC Metro [via meFi]



•On the history of Urban Outfitter and its ties to the paleolithically homophobic Senator Santorum.


•Dissent among the troops.



•Military operations as urban planning.


•1/1000 scale models of New York and Tokyo [via nsop].




•Veteran adult film insiders reconsider Boogie Nights.



•Beneath my Feet are photos by Marc Schiller of exactly that - and ever the fascinating banality. Compare these from (I assume) an NYC portfolio with these taken in Vietnam.

•Lastly and bestly - a picture of George W Bush getting coiffed. And allow me a personal anecdote - when I was in Rio de Janeiro last March, it was of course during the breakout of Iraq #2, and a Globo evening news story was mentioning Bush's address to the US. The footage they used briefly showed - I shit you not - Georgie being primped and primmed by three simultaneous stylists. About ten other people were in the room watching with me and we were all dying laughing. Such a great relief of the frustration of such a futile month, when the outside-the-US camera pulls back the curtain on the wizard for a moment. This Smoking Gun link includes similarly priceless footage. Do go there today, if nowhere else.