July 2010
June 2010
Clinton, Breaking With Obama, Backs Romanoff Over... →
what’s cool about the democrats, though it’s a weakness at times, is the ability to do things independently; party unity isn’t the number one core value - that much I can respect
“WHEN Thomas Jefferson embarked on his grand tour of France in 1787, he claimed...”
– Footsteps - Retracing Jefferson’s Steps in Burgundy - NYTimes.com (via hedonics)
Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind -... →
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best of craigslist: Dear University Alumni Office →
think4yourself:
annaverity:
Dear University Alumni Office,
I’m sorry to hear that the university’s $750 million endowment has fallen in value to $500 million because of the recession and because your bank died. I’m also sorry to hear that you’re dealing with declining enrollment due to the fact that middle-class families are no longer willing or able to bet their homes on a $45,000-a-year...
Myths from the Right about the Disaster in the... →
think4yourself:
azspot:
The idea that environmental regulations forced the industry into deepwater, as proclaimed by Sarah Palin and echoed by pundits, is a whopper. The offshore industry set its sights on drilling in one thousand feet of water before significant federal environmental laws and regulations existed (many of these were implemented by that radical leftist, Richard Nixon). The...
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“She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn’t secretly...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (via dinkenesh)
“You don’t need a story. The question is: How long do you not need a story?” That...”
– 3quarksdaily
“The genre genre, the meta-level criticism. If that’s what Shields is doing, then...”
– 3quarksdaily
“That’s where the cute stops being cute – when playing with ideas becomes more...”
– Reality Hunger: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
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“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the...”
– T. E. Lawrence
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“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take...”
– Baal the Poet in The Satanic Verses
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Hamlet: Act I, Scene iii
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The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man
The second best is a formal order
The dance’s pattern, dance while you can.
Dance, dance, for the figure is easy
The tune is catching and will not stop
Dance till the stars come down with the rafters
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
W. H. Auden, “Death’s Echo”
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“Because for an artist, everything that happens is material for your work;...”
– A Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges · Habitus (via myserendipities)
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“In physical terms we inhabit space, but in emotional terms we are inhabited, by...”
– Jose Saramago, The Notebook
Watchvasta:
A chuckle for your Friday morning, because everyone knows driving a Toyota minivan and rapping about it is totally awesome.
“No es cierto que la gente deje de perseguir sus sueños porque envejece, más bien...”
– Gabriel García Márquez
gestion: marabc: (via nanastar)
(via alucinao)
“It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow older. Really, people get older when they stop chasing their dreams.”
(via tragos)
(via petersantiago)
“This is what a failed democracy looks like: After years of avid public support...”
– Timothy Karr: The Fate of the Internet — Decided in a Back Room
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been....”
– Isaac Asimov. (via smashstatusquo) (via danielholter) (via jonathan-cunningham)
“For the moment, the neo-Keynesian blog posts bear the same relationship to the...”
– n+1: On Your Marx
“These tribunes of the antigovernment right and their Tea Party auxiliaries are...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock - NYTimes.com
“The president’s shake-up of his own governance can’t wait, as tradition often...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock - NYTimes.com
“What’s also being tarred daily by the gushing oil is the very notion that...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock - NYTimes.com
Amen to that observation. Fix this, Obama, or watch your strongest supporters, especially Gen Y, to bail on politics altogether. Then we can live through a country run by some Tea Party nut. And it will be your fault.
“This was not a political gaffe - these were prepared remarks.”
– White House chife of stff RAHM EMANUEL, pointing out that Joe Barton’s (R - TX) heartfelt, sincere apology to BP wasn’t just some dumbass utterance, but rather the GOP’s party line regarding the oil industry.
Yep.
(via inothernews)
“When I heard that BP was destroying a big portion of Earth, with no serious...”
– Dilbert’s Scott Adams on Betting on the Bad Guys in Investing - WSJ.com
“Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western...”
– José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Writer, Dies at 87 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese... →
José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was 87.
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“This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via llibre, bearnnakkedd)
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the “soul” of the universe...”
– Prince Charles’ sinister speech attacks science and good sense. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
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“A book should either allow you to escape existence or teach you to endure...”
– Samuel Johnson
“The effects of consuming electronic media are also likely to be far more limited...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
“When it comes to the marketplace, law defines reality. We know what a bank is,...”
– 3quarksdaily
“Did he really think he could shame the CEO and the VP of the company into doing...”
– 3quarksdaily
“What one sees on C-SPAN these days is that the members of Congress have,...”
– 3quarksdaily
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“Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Forms of a Legend
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“To be one thing is inexorably not to be all other things; the confused intuition...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, From Someone to No One
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“There cannot be any two things alike in the world; the poet had only to recite...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Parable of the Palace
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A Yellow Rose, by Jorge Luis Borges
“Then came the revelation. Marino saw the rose as Adam might have seen it in Paradise. And he sensed that it existed in its eternity and not in his words, and that we may make mention or allusion of a thing but never express it at all; and that the tall proud tomes that cast a golden penumbra in an angle of the drawing room were not - as he had dreamed in his vanity - a mirror of the world,...
“Beinart, a journalist and an associate professor at the City University of New...”
– Book Review - The Icarus Syndrome - By Peter Beinart - NYTimes.com
“Anchor babies” isn’t a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are...”
– Arizona’s Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals - TIME