January 2012
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July 2011
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“Bombs are for retarded people.”
– Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fars News Agency
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February 2011
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WatchCowabunga Babes live at Origami Vinyl
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December 2010
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“Only in America can someone be in the Oval Office negotiating with leaders of...”
– Bob Sirott’s One More Thing About Rahm Emanuel’s Residency Hearing
November 2010
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“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of...”
– Gustave Flaubert
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“But the shadows have foes, and like weeds we will grow.”
– His Hero Is Gone – Like Weeds
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“There are weeds growing in the garden of democracy that our Founding Fathers...”
– From an email sent by Christine O’Donnell, Republican nominee for US Senate.
October 2010
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“What are my plans? Not retirement — just new projects. This spring,...”
– From an email by Hal Malchow announcing the breakup of his marketing firm, MSHC Partners.
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“The primary communication system used by the missileers is still dubbed...”
– Nuclear Fail: Is START in Trouble?
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Dolven →
Music by Amasa Gana Video by Wiley Wiggins
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September 2010
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“Resistance is, after all, a futile, symbolic act unless it leads to material...”
– Why We Loved the Zapatistas, by Bhaskar Sunkara
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August 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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Of Mice and Lords →
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff: I thank the noble Lord for his reply. How many calls have there been to the mouse helpline? Has the accuracy of that information been checked, given that the staff report seeing mice on a daily basis at the moment in the eating areas? Has consideration been given to having hypoallergenic cats on the estate, given the history? Miss Wilson, when she was a resident...
February 2010
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“What I’m interested in scientifically is understanding thought with...”
– NYT: A Calculus of Writing, Applied to a Classic
Incidentally, this is the same argument used to justify “progressive rock,” which is awful.
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“For me, if there’s a piece of writing that I care about, I want to have...”
– Brigid Hughes, editor of the literary journal A Public Space, speaking about printed literary journals in the LA Times.
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“Ultimately we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because...”
– Amazon.com, apparently vying for the “strangest use of the term ‘monopoly’” award.
January 2010
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“Mr. Lanchester compares the shift in finance over recent decades to the rise of...”
– WSJ - “Plenty of Blame to Go Around”
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A look at Tucker Carlson's political Web site, the... →
The Fox News commentator launches his new Web site, the Daily Caller, on Monday. His partner is Neil Patel, a former Dick Cheney aide. His opinion editor is Moira Bagley, who spent 2008 as the Republican National Committee’s press secretary. And his $3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess, a big-time GOP donor.
But Carlson insists this won’t be a right-wing...
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“Why would I have any interest in fixing the bathroom sink?” he said. “I’m in my...”
– NYT: Men Who Jump the Picket Fence
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A Last Look at Updike and Cheever →
Dick Cavett interviews John Updike and John Cheever in 1981. Absolutely brilliant. I wish this was available for embed.
December 2009
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Ernie Harwell's Definition of Baseball →
Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season and a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That’s baseball. And so is the big, fat guy with a bulbous nose running home one of his (Babe Ruth’s) 714 home runs.
There’s a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus...
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November 2009
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On Language: Against Camel Case →
“Though camel case may have been spurred by recent technology, its effect is regressive — in fact, medieval. It harks back to an era when reading was effortful, public and loud — like a visit to a contemporary shopping mall.”
(via Dark Entries)
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Interrogated About ‘The Daily Show’ in Iran →
He was fascinated with New Jersey. I think the words New Jersey sounded to him like the most American place that you can be in your life. Because he thought of New Jersey as kind of like paradise. To him, he had to suffer on this world in order to go to paradise — in order to drink wine and have sex with at least 72 virgins and then others if he wanted to… He hated me and he was jealous of me at...
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NSFW: Give me ad-free conversations, or give me... →
Our blogs are already affiliated-linked up to the eyeballs, our TV shows are product-placed to hell, radio has succumbed to payola, even our schools are brought to you by the letters COCA COL and A. Human conversation is the last area of communication to hold out against the relentless march of commercialisation and it’s our duty, as humans, to make sure it stays that way. So, screw consensus. And...