January 2012
“Gun control is another area where progressive energies have been wasteful and...”
– n 1: Raise the Crime Rate
“In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York...”
– n 1: Raise the Crime Rate
“Crime has not fallen in the United States—it’s been shifted. Just as Wall Street...”
– n 1: Raise the Crime Rate
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...”
– Fidel Castro Calls Republican Field a ‘Competition of Idiocy’ - NYTimes (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
“Regardless of how this plays out in the Republican primary race, Romney has done...”
– Rational Irrationality: Mitt’s 1040s: The Real Scandal is the Tax Code : The New Yorker
“Salman Rushdie has launched a scathing attack on the Indian government for...”
– Salman Rushdie goes on offensive after Indian festival appearance is cancelled | Books | The Guardian
Author Amitava Kumar's Response to Being Advised... →
That the novel The Satanic Verses can still cause so much trouble because it “hurts the feelings” of some (not all) religious people is something that never ceases to amaze me. That Salman Rushdie was unable to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival because of death threats saddens me. That four artists at the Jaipur Literature Festival chose to read from Rushdie’s novel, putting...
Opinion: On abortion rights, Latinos distinguish...
univisionnews:
Contrary to popular belief, strong majorities of Latinos support abortion rights. (Flickr: Steve Rhodes)
By LUCY PANZA Channel: Politics
Research released Thursday found that Latinos are overwhelmingly supportive of abortion rights, marking an important step toward understanding the nuanced views within Hispanic communities.
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“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…....”
– Noam Chomsky (via revolutionnow)
“If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something, but the...”
– Noam Chomsky (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
“ONE sure giveaway of quack medicine is the claim that a product can treat any...”
– Exercise and longevity: Worth all the sweat | The Economist
“It is scarcity, Edsall contends, that turns modest policy differences into...”
– The Age of Austerity - How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics - By Thomas Byrne Edsall - Book Review - NYTimes.com
“The most interesting part of seeing these guys up close is seeing the way people...”
– Romney Bombs, and Other Thoughts on the Charleston Debate | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“Nowadays, a candidate must believe not just some but all of the following...”
– American politics: The right Republican | The Economist
H/T my Twitter feed: @JohnWDean (former Nixon White House counsel, now a contributing commentator to Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and author and lecturer. A guy very much worth following).
(via timekiller-s)
“Having asked, in a completely innocent way, whether the Times should behave like...”
– The New York Times public editor’s very public utterance | Clay Shirky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“Something happened in our press over the last 40 years or so that never got...”
– So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at number one? » Pressthink
Watchryking:
Stephen Colbert’s first ad in South Carolina labels Mitt Romney “a serial killer.”
“If corporations are people, then Mitt Romney is Mitt the Ripper.”
“Stenographic treatment is a license extended only the most powerful. As Atrios...”
– Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography - Salon.com
“Every day one can find prominent news articles that are shaped entirely by the...”
– Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography - Salon.com
“That most reporters faithfully follow the stenographer model — uncritically...”
– Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography - Salon.com
“The New York Times‘ Public Editor Arthur Brisbane unwittingly sparked an intense...”
– Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography - Salon.com
“Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change...”
– Noam Chomsky (via endormirse )
Spanish judge resumes Guantanamo investigation →
MADRID—A Spanish judge says he is proceeding with a probe into human rights abuses at the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, after Washington failed to respond to requests for information.
The probe stems from torture complaints filed by four Muslims who are either citizens or residents of Spain and were once held at the prison.
The probe had been on hold while Judge Pablo Ruz...
Getting There Too Quickly:Aldous Huxley and... →
For Aldous Huxley fans, a good article on his combination of spiritual searching with his experiments with psychedelics. It gives some good background on the situation, so it’s worth reading even if you’ve already read The Doors of Perception.
Elderly ‘Experts’ Share Life Advice in Cornell... →
None of the advice is particularly revelatory, but it’s the kind of stuff we need to be reminded of, that’s so true we lose sight of it.
“Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” (via cultureofresistance)
lycanpedia:
“Serial killer psychopaths ruin families. Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.”
-Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test,
“The campaign is still a gigantic ritual and it will still be attended by all the...”
– Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“The real fight against the status quo is coming in places like the Supreme Court...”
– Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“This caucus, let’s face it, marks the beginning of a long, rigidly-controlled,...”
– Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“It takes an awful lot to rob the presidential race of this elemental appeal. But...”
– Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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No Resolution
thenewinquiry:
A review of Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism at the beginning of the end.
By Jenna Brager
Lauren Berlant wants you to break your New Year’s resolutions. Or at least she wholly understands your impending failure to keep them. So go ahead, smoke another cigarette. Smoke whatever you can find. Down a few more 100-calorie snack packs. Eat a whole goddamn box of 100-calorie snack...
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“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted...”
– David Foster Wallace (via eudaimonist)
“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
#god had a second child #her name is meryl streep
(via thequietworld)
Another reason to love Meryl Streep
(via pearlsandasweaterset)
“There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we...”
– American Class System - We Are Not All Created Equal, by Stephen Marche - Esquire