August 2010
“Vanishing of jobs will plague the rest of this decade and more. Meaningful...”
– Revalorizing the Trades - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“In a rather curious and confused way, some white people are starting almost to...”
– Glenn Beck’s rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
“In 2009 it became obvious – for American diplomats anyway – that Washington was...”
– Iran to search for WMDs on its own, thank you | Net Effect
Iran to search for WMDs on its own, thank you |... →
For better or worse, Google chose to join with the US government in politicizing the digital space – and it’s only logical that foreign governments are beginning to see Google’s dominance in their search markets as a political – rather than pure business – matter. As such, I expect many more plans similar to Iran’s to pop up elsewhere. When Washington is leading a crusade for...
Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and... →
This summer, then, has been the perfect register of the new anxiety, beginning with the fracas over Arizona’s immigration law, gaining in intensity with the proposal by some Republicans to amend the 14th Amendment so as to de-naturalize “anchor babies,” cresting with the continuing row over the so-called “Ground Zero” mosque, and culminating, at least symbolically,...
“When I say romantic, I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to...”
– Jeff Buckley ((via dodgethewater:moodswingwhiskey:jeffbuckleyforever) (via poetbabble)
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WatchBest Failed Prank Ever! (funnyordie video)
Robert Reich: Warning: Why Cheaper Money Won't... →
Can the Fed rescue the economy by making money even cheaper than it already is? A debate is being played out in the Fed about whether it should return to so-called “quantitative easing” – buying more mortgage-backed securities, Treasury bills, and other bonds - in order to lower the cost of…
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“…perhaps this is the look of someone who, without making any conscious...”
– Jose Saramago, All the Names
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“So be it. Evoke the forms. When you’ve nothing else, construct ceremonies out of...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via) (via vasta)
“When wolves of Murdoch’s ingenuity and the Kochs’ stealth have been at the door...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party - NYTimes.com
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“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? More and more that became for me the real measure of value. Error (faith in the ideal) is not blindness, error is cowardice.”
Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
“The truth will set you free. But only when it is finished with you.”
David Foster Wallace
I read a lot, and I’ve read many philosophers, essayists,...
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"Which is worse, to live as a monster or to die as...
This is the question posed at the end of the movie Shutter Island. I thought this line made the whole movie. Because it poses a moral question, and in answering it we answer something we believe to be true about life.
If delusion is the only way to escape the pain of facing the truth - the monstrosity, the personal affront of it - do you take it? In other words, which do you love more, your self...
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“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think...”
– Oscar Wilde ; The Picture of Dorian Gray (via colporteur) (via worthlessbria, quote-book)
“Let life happen to you. Life is in the right, always.”
– Rilke
“The Fox/Rush/Savage crowd in the last 18 months has taken the anti-Muslim fervor...”
– Tea Party Rocks Primaries — RollingStone.com
“There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me...”
– Tea Party Rocks Primaries — RollingStone.com
“Everyone involved with politics understands the current dynamic. It’s not hard...”
– Tea Party Rocks Primaries — RollingStone.com
“Yes, I understand that politics is the art of the possible and some degree of...”
– Why I Became A Political Scientist and Lessons from the Weimar Republic | Stephen M. Walt
My answer: Yes.
“I feel bad sometimes,” says Grayson, talking to a small group of...”
– Alan Grayson tries to show Democrats how to take on the Tea Party. - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine
This is what democrats are mission. (I’m talking to you too, Obama.)
Alan Grayson tries to show Democrats how to take... →
But why do other democrats seem unable to follow his lead? It’s like it’s not in their DNA to fight like he does.
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“People don’t realize how much they are in the grip of ideas.
We live among...”
– Saul Bellow (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Advanced societies invariably have subsumed whatever indigenous populations...”
– The most isolated man on the planet. - By Monte Reel - Slate Magazine
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WatchTime Announces New Version of Magazine Aimed at Adults. Via The Onion
“Jim Haberkorn, 49, a medical-device salesman who volunteers for Republican...”
– The Fight Over Net Neutrality Goes to the Inner City
Damn that pesky majority that refuses to agree with the poor, persecuted white male Republican! — Ryking
(via ryking)
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“We are who we are not, and life is swift and sad. The sound of the waves at...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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“Why can’t all of it be an entirely different truth, with no gods, men, or...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Bush Tax Cuts - Now That’s Rich - NYTimes.com →
We need to pinch pennies these days. Don’t you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy.
But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the...
“As riches are hard to come by for everyone save a few, celebrity has become the...”
– 3quarksdaily
“Perhaps Woods would have been able to withstand this horrible year if there were...”
– Tiger Woods Is Finished — The Sports Section
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“Park 51 opponents have made much of the fact that polls show majority support...”
– What political courage looks like - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“But the trillion-dollar conglomerates that inhabit this new financial world are...”
– David Stockman and the GOP Welfare State — RollingStone.com
“Stockman here is on to a basic truth about the direction in which the economy...”
– David Stockman and the GOP Welfare State — RollingStone.com
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“You must believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.”
– W. C. Fields
“I don’t see what the underpinnings are for the economy are. When I take...”
– David Rosenberg: ‘If You Don’t Believe In A Double Dip, It’s Because The First Recession Never Ended’
“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
– Anne Sexton (via stop-droproll)
“Being a rational, engaged citizen means objecting when political leaders do...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“Perhaps one day the White House can work itself up to express this sort of...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“You may think that the reason you’re dissatisfied with the Obama...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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