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"Barack Obama's election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual ( Read more... ) -
privatized profit, socialized debt
Worse, from a tedium standpoint, the failure to assemble an easily gettable record has perpetuated a particularly sterile argument over who’s to blame. David Brooks, George Will, and other cultural conservatives-let’s call them behavioralists-have felt free to blame the unraveling of the financial system on some sort of spontaneous mass ( Read more... ) -
http://gawker.com/5041927/ted-kennedy-wins-rave-reviews
Gawker on Ted Kennedy:
And his speech was a welcome return to the stirring outward-looking rhetoric of yore, in an age in which most Democrats rely on personal tales of of relatability and hardship. ("I was born of a single mother and met an iron worker once" vs. "we're going to the fucking MOON").
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Ada, pp. 174-175
"What then, was it that raised the animal act to a level higher than even that of the most exact arts or the wildest flights of pure science? It would not be sufficient to say that in his love-making with Ada he discovered the pang, the ogon', the agony of supreme "reality." Reality, better say, lost the quotes it wore like claws -- in a world ( Read more... ) -
in the neon sign, scolling up and down, i am born again
Although most people have already seen Radiohead live and already know this, I still have to say it. What an amazing show.
Brooklyn Vegan has really wonderful pictures, and the setlist, here. The lights were low-power LEDs, too. We were fairly far back and it was still mind-blowing. The sound was perfect. People were quiet when it was called ( Read more... ) -
Beginner's Lessons, by Malcolm Alexander
If you wish to be wealthy, duck beneath ( Read more... ) -
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"It is unrealistic to expect the Pentagon to do anything other than to advance its own institutional interests in the media and elsewhere. Furthermore, it is not surprsing when retired career military officers present a perspective that coincides with that of their former cohort ( Read more... ) -
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So, Bush's Defense Department gives a massive tanker contract to Northrop Grumman and the European firm EADS. In doing so, it shunned Boeing, which bid on the contract ( Read more... ) -
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"It is imperative that we give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors, our prejudices, our dreams, and our hopes; that all we can do is to grope for truth even though it is beyond our reach. There is no authority beyond the reach of criticism."
Karl Popper
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