June 2011
Who Was David Foster Wallace? — Beautiful... →
Another great article about the guy, this one about his stories in Oblivion. Check it out.
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“There is an infinity of rational numbers, that is to say, numbers that can be...”
– J. M. Coetzee, writing about Robert Musil in On the Edge of Reveleation
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“It is not the case that we reflect on things. Rather, things think themselves...”
– Robert Musil
“In the throes of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, the president ran...”
– FrumForum (via azspot)
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“It just doesn’t matter what the population thinks, as long as they’re under...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“I do think that questions of self-destruction are ultimately about how people...”
– Guernica / Never the Face
“Journeys through dark places—journeys into the abyss, journeys to the edge of...”
– Guernica / Never the Face
“Yes, it seems paradoxical that what you discover about yourself is that you’re...”
– Guernica / Never the Face
“Fifteen to eighteen percent of girls under twelve now wear mascara, eyeliner and...”
– “How To Talk To Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom (via twofish)
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“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is...”
– John Lennon (via onebricktodayisonelesstomorrow)
“THIS spring was a rough season for the Fourth Amendment. The Obama...”
– David Shipler (via azspot)
vruz: liberal obama at work.
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“Comedians are the only ones paid to tell the truth in public discourse....”
– Keith Olbermann (via azspot)
“The goal of the media in late-model capitalism could not be more transparent....”
– To Gaze Upon A Weiner: A Rumpus Lamentation With Sad Sexual Parts (via azspot)
“A groundbreaking study led by the Wharton management professor Adam Grant, to be...”
– Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic? - NYTimes.com
“THE psychologist Gregory Feist found that many of the most creative people in a...”
– Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic? - NYTimes.com
“Congress does not need to de-fund a war to render it illegal. Under the law (and...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“the reason so many anti-war members of Congress — including dozens of...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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“We had laws broken in this country that involved the deaths of hundreds of...”
– Keith Olbermann (via azspot)
“In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly...”
– Michele Bachmann’s Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics
“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it...”
– H. L. Mencken
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Watchbrooklynmutt:
Jon Stewart Apologizes To Politifact, Reads List Of Politifact Fox News Corrections
Mediaite
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“Because they don’t teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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Arrived in Bellingham, WA late Saturday night. Can’t believe I live here. It’s the kind of place I’d visit on vacation. Hard to overstate how beautiful it is. How beautiful? Really. Fucking. Beautiful.
Obviously, I’m in the honeymoon stage with my new home.
“Newt isn’t going to make it to the New Hampshire primary, which is too bad,...”
– Bachmann Won, and Other Thoughts on the GOP Debate | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
Bye Fort Collins
This is it, saying goodbye to the place I’ve lived the longest as an adult. Just finished my last day on my berry farming project in Boulder today, and on Thursday it’s time to pack the Uhaul and hit the road.
Can’t wait to check out Bellingham. I’d never even heard of it until recently, and now everyone who I tell that’s where I’m going knows the place....
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“I suspect that the hedge fund managers behind our charter schools system—whose...”
– Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System | Common Dreams (via onehundreddollars)
“Ideas for scientific experiments come from all sorts of places (and fewer of...”
– Colin Firth: Actor. Writer. Academy Award Winner. Scientist? | Surprising Science
“While the ostensible reasons for inflicting pain keep changing, however, the...”
– Rule by Rentiers - NYTimes.com
“In print, the X-Men are an elite team culled from a superpowered species of...”
– You Left Out the Part About … - NYTimes.com
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (via eudaimonist)
Talking Philosophy | A Quibble Over Godlessness →
On the difference between atheism and agnosticism
“I’d really like to know how many journalists, pundits and activist types...”
– The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“There are few things more sickening — or revealing — to behold than...”
– The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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The Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X →
Robert Reich: Why Washington Isn't Doing Squat... →
robertreich:
The silence is deafening. While the rest of the nation is heading back toward a double dip, Washington continues to obsess about future budget deficits. Why?
Republicans don’t want to do anything about jobs and wages. They’re so intent on unseating Obama they’d like the economy to remain in…
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I...”
– R. W. Emerson (via kevinlepore)
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Unemployment rises from 9% to 9.1% →
ryking:
Obama converted 40% of the 2009 stimulus package, $310 billion, into tax cuts against the advice of every economist worth listening to in order to get GOP votes for the package so that he could call it “bipartisan.” Only three Republicans crossed party lines to vote in favor of it.
As predicted, replacing so much spending with tax cuts has hampered the economy’s recovery, and now...
