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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Star Trek (2009) captures the democratic impulse but misses the bigger picture.

While tremendous fun for both fans and the wider audience, the new Star Trek movie fails to satisfy on a deeper level, unlike the best of the franchise. The idea behind the movie was a clever one, taking us back in time to the period leading up to Classic Trek and giving many [...]

Welcome to TheOggblog: Crisis and Opportunity

We live in a time of both crisis and opportunity, or as Homer Simpson put it, “criso’tunity.” According to Greg Palaste on a recent Laura Flanders Grit TV episode, the world is on fire. A litany haunts those with their eyes open; global warming, peak oil, empire fed on war, rising global poverty and disease…
Yet [...]