May 2010
“Milan Kundera, one of our most perceptive chroniclers of how it feels to live in...”
– Life In A Glass House: Why are people so eager to invade their own privacy? | The New Republic
“On the national level, bipartisanship usually means Democrats ignore the needs...”
– Barack Obama, 1996 (via jonathan-cunningham)
Robert Reich: Why Deficit Hawks Are Killing the... →
jonathan-cunningham:
Consumer spending is 70 percent of the American economy, so if consumers can’t or won’t spend we’re back in the soup. Yet the government just reported that consumer spending stalled in April – the first month consumers didn’t up their spending since last September. Instead, consumers boosted their savings, probably because they’re worried about the slow pace of job growth...
Greenwald asks a question →
jonathan-cunningham:
The article notes that a new classified Department of Homeland Security report documents that “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.”
Maybe, one day, we might want to ask: ”why”? Is it because they Hate Us For Our Freedoms more than...
“Zuckerberg has always been quite honest about the fact that Facebook will...”
– Matthew Yglesias » Mark Zuckerberg’s Silver-Spoon Vanguardism
“As Richard Feynman, the physicist, once observed, “For a successful technology,...”
– Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
“Americans have long had an unswerving belief that technology will save us — it...”
– Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
“President Obama said on Thursday that his administration was “moving quickly on...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - An Unnatural Disaster - NYTimes.com
“President Obama spoke critically a couple of weeks ago about the “cozy...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - An Unnatural Disaster - NYTimes.com
“Between surreal appearances from Wasilla as the caged pundit of Fox News and...”
– The Palin Brand - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
The Palin Brand - NYTimes.com →
In the midst of one of the most precipitous political crashes in the Mountain West, Sarah Palin made a mad dash into Boise on Friday, urging the election of a man who had plagiarized his campaign speech from Barack Obama, had been rebuked by the military for misusing the Marine uniform and had called the American territory of Puerto Rico a separate country.
And why not? Vaughn Ward, the...
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“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he, too, was all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
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“He feared lest his son meditate on his abnormal privilege and somehow discover...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
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“In the dream of the man who was dreaming, the dreamt man awoke.”
– Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to...”
– River Phoenix (via rightintoit: quitedeliciousthings: allthechocolatesinthebox) (via sexisnottheenemy) (via autumndae)
And while it's perfectly legit for the news media...
foreigntongue:
(via inothernews)
i think it’s more a question of “why the fuck is EVERYONE sitting on their hands?”
honestly, with all the brainpower at BP and in Washington, you would think that someone, anyone, could come up with one useful idea.
this is ridiculous
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Here's what the Obama administration needs to do...
selva:
inothernews:
Nationalize BP’s assets in the Gulf and take over the capping effort. What the fuck are they going to do? We’re not the fucking Falkland Islands. Why are we letting these pompous wankers control the cleanup efforts? Why does BP get to mount a “social media” campaign and control media access to cleanup sites and why the FUCK is Doug Suttle giving daily briefings on BP’S...
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Limits, by Jorge Luis Borges
There is a line of Verlaine I shall not recall again;
There is a nearby street forbidden to my step,
There is a mirror that has seen me for the last time,
There is a door I have shut until the end of the world.
Among the books in my library (I have them before me)
There are some I shall never reopen.
This summer I complete my fiftieth year:
Death reduces me incessantly.
Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer... →
I’ve just been reading about this. Can’t find a single sunscreen at the store without the chemicals they warn about.
“…the instigators of denialist movements have more serious psychological...”
– Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist
“Denialist explanations may be couched in sciency language, but they rest on...”
– Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist
“It is this sense of loss of control that really matters. In such situations,...”
– Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist
“This common ground tells us a great deal about the underlying causes of...”
– Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist
“This depressing tale is the latest incarnation of denialism, the systematic...”
– Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth - opinion - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist
“Carville also accused the White House of going along with what he called the...”
– James Carville Takes On Obama On Oil Spill: He’s ‘Risking Everything’ With ‘Go Along With BP Strategy’
“Unfortunately, from a combination of fear and self-hatred, many in the West are...”
– Review: Nomad, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Globe and Mail
“Of course, one has to distinguish between Islam and Muslims. It is hardly to be...”
– Review: Nomad, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Globe and Mail
“Hirsi Ali’s insistence, based on her own family experience, her experience...”
– Review: Nomad, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Globe and Mail
“The study suggests meats like burgers and steaks have been wrongly implicated in...”
– Don’t Bring Home the Bacon - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
“A new Harvard study that found no increased risk of heart disease among meat...”
– Don’t Bring Home the Bacon - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
“The fact that 11 human beings were killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - More Than Just an Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
“The risks unleashed by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - More Than Just an Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with... →
Not surprisingly, Facebook appears to have gone farther than the other sites when it comes to sharing data. When Facebook’s users clicked on ads appearing on a profile page, the site would at times provide data such as the username behind the click, as well as the user whose profile page from which the click came. “If you are looking at your profile page and you click on an ad, you are...
t r u t h o u t | Haitian Farmers Commit to... →
In an open letter sent May 14, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, the executive director of MPP and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP), called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti “a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds … and on what is left our environment in Haiti.”(1) Haitian social...
“This is one case, however, where the remedy is worse than the disease, or rather...”
– Arizona: The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
“No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there...”
– Terry Pratchett (via loveyourchaos)
“Maher’s solution for pushing the country forward: bring in Apple.
...”
– Bill Maher: Steve Jobs Would Run America Better Than Obama
“Sara Diamond neatly summarizes the politics behind the right’s obstructionism in...”
– t r u t h o u t | Republicans and the Tea Party of No
t r u t h o u t | Republicans and the Tea Party of... →
You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women’s rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid. And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric in opposition, predicting that implementing any such policies would result in the...
Why BP Won't Measure the Oil Spill - Science and... →
Why BP is digging in its heels on this issue is unclear, given that at this point the company has little to lose — CEO Tony Hayward has already admitted the spill may well cost him his job. The company has all available forms of technology at its feet, and, thanks to government oil-spill bailout funds, does not have to worry too much — for now, at least — about the cost of the...
Mathematical model explains marital breakups →
The research was carried out by José-Manuel Rey of the Department of Economic Analysis, at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and aimed to provide a mathematical model to explain rising rates of marital breakdown. Using the optimal control theory model, Rey developed an equation based on the “second thermodynamic law for sentimental interaction,” which states a relationship will disintegrate...
