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Ravers and Time Travellers Re-Record History

“From roughly 1991 to 2000, untold young people across the country packed into nightclubs, warehouses, catering halls - anywhere that could hold a sound system and a few hundred sweaty teenagers - and danced through the night. The hallmarks of the scene were baggy trousers, brightly coloured, loose-fitting clothing, accessories like baby pacifiers and ski-goggles - and drugs.”

How Rich Are The Superrich? Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America - “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. See all of Mother Jones’ inequality charts here.”

How Rich Are The Superrich? Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America - “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. See all of Mother Jones’ inequality charts here.”

Marksmanship, it’s a hard habit to break.

Marksmanship, it’s a hard habit to break.

New Evidence Proves First Flag Made By Betsy Ross Actually Shirt For Gay Friend

“This resplendently bedecked man, with his pet bald eagle perched on his shoulder, strutted about with unabashed confidence and pride, like America itself. At once, I knew I must make this radiant son of liberty’s shirt into a glorious flag o’er our nation!”

America: Democracy To The Highest Bidder

” Your average voter can dash off a letter to the editor, or fire up a blog, or put up a yard sign — a nice fantasy of citizen democracy. Your corporate equal can spend $23 million (the outsider amount spent so far in Colorado) to bludgeon the electorate. And, with loopholes in the tax system, they can do it while making it virtually impossible to know who they are…In the megaphone phase of this campaign to determine who will control the people’s Congress, the locals — those actual “natural persons” — are all but silent. Races in Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Washington state are being determined on K Street, by insurance, banking and oil industry groups hiding behind innocuous titles like Americans for Prosperity (right-wing billionaire David Koch) and Americans for Job Security (insurance giants), and by public employee unions.”

Borderland/Borderama/Detroit: Part 1 - “But it’s not a city, not when the sun comes up and you can see the place. It was a city once, that’s clear, or at least Detroit seems to have been a city, given the physical evidence left behind in maybe the most moved-out-of metropolis ever settled and then evacuated by Americans — houses and factories, theaters and schools, streets and whole neighborhoods now walked away from on so spectacular a scale that you can’t fault other people when they register amazement. ‘It is a remarkable city,’ Rebeca Solnit wrote in Harper’s, ‘one in which the clock seems to be running backward as its buildings disappear and its population and economy decline.’”

Borderland/Borderama/Detroit: Part 1 - “But it’s not a city, not when the sun comes up and you can see the place. It was a city once, that’s clear, or at least Detroit seems to have been a city, given the physical evidence left behind in maybe the most moved-out-of metropolis ever settled and then evacuated by Americans — houses and factories, theaters and schools, streets and whole neighborhoods now walked away from on so spectacular a scale that you can’t fault other people when they register amazement. ‘It is a remarkable city,’ Rebeca Solnit wrote in Harper’s, ‘one in which the clock seems to be running backward as its buildings disappear and its population and economy decline.’”