January 2012
17 posts
Jerry Sandusky: "I'll never forget all the things... →
Read excerpts from his moving eulogy.
(…too soon?)
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Ghost River →
“Not long ago, I read an article about archaeologists in Greenland who discovered that plants growing above an ancient Norse ruin possessed slightly different chemistry from plants growing nearby. I was taken with the idea that the energy of a forgotten structure, invisible and buried deep underground, may percolate upwards to leave subtle impressions on the surface. It was this that came...
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“Mitt Romney is the whitest white man to run for president in recent memory.”
– NYTimes
Shel Sylverstien was possibly the coolest man to... →
This article doesn’t just make me want to read/listen to/look at his work. It makes me want to BE him.
“When I arrived at work on the morning of Oct. 19, 2001, an intelligence officer...”
– Lakhdar Boumediene, who spent 7 years in Guantanamo without any explanation. Please read this article.
“With the leadership and the backing of the American people President Obama will...”
– John McCain accidentally endorses the wrong candidate.
December 2011
23 posts
“I think of Dean Moriarty”
A female soldier living in Iraq is more likely to... →
The American military thinks rape is ok.
“But the other part of the explanation is economic: like any lucrative capitalist...”
– Kurt Anderson on Why we all dress/look the same as we did 20 years ago
Whit Stillman's Top 10 Criterion Movies →
November 2011
14 posts
“Don’t need a weather man to knoww which way the wind blows”
– Dylan
“Washington is a company town, and politics is a business. People wonder why we...”
– Peter Schweizer, author of Throw Them All Out, whose research revealed that some of Congress’s most prominent members actively trade in financial markets directly impacted by policy enacted in DC. (via newsweek)
