February 2011
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“How, I was thinking as I typed another unassuming pleasantry, do I get an...”
– The big questions - Mind vs. Machine
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Democracy is no panacea - Opinion - Al Jazeera... →
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To all those who liked the photo of the soldiers...
I hope you’ll find some way to watch Restrepo, by far the best film that I’ve seen this year that was also nominated for an Oscar.
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“Granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the...”
– On DOMA, Obama’s just being himself
No one could possibly invent a more fucked-up equivalence than this one.
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If a U.S. president could speak honestly about... →
Yeah! So suck it up, suburbanites.
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“Hey kids, its ok stand under that refreshing mist in the blistering summer heat,...”
– Canada Sprayed Teens with Agent Orange Until the 80s
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“The effect on mortality of loneliness is comparable with that of smoking and...”
– Mind and body | The Economist
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“I am ecstatic to tell you all today that we have beheld the awesome visage of...”
– NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find, Kill God | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
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“(For the record, given his warm response to two friends of mine who introduced...”
– The many lives of James Franco
I love Franco, whatever his orientation; however, was this juvenile disclaimer really necessary?
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The residue of empire
I wonder what the U.S. will leave behind in Afghanistan. Besides the dead, anyway.Amplify’d from atwar.blogs.nytimes.comThe Afghan noncommissioned officer reaching into the frame above really wanted to show me this particular rifle. Have a look. The rifle is slightly blackened by fire and is missing its receiver cover. This weapon — along with another AMD-65, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher...
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“More than sixty years have passed since the Arab states and the countries of...”
– Israeli media ‘fears’ the new Egypt
Interesting how the loonies in Israel resemble the loonies in the States.
Putting the phrase colonial yoke in quotes: Very classy.
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“There’s only three kind of songs: killin’ songs, fuckin’ songs, and drinkin’...”
– Mojo Nixon: Drunkard of the Month Modern Drunkard Magazine
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“She’s so hardcore, she chews on dried hop leaves instead of gum.”
– #FollowFriday: A Baker’s Dozen Twitter Beer Experts
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“Good music was popular by mistake,” Tanya Donelly, lead singer of Belly...”
– Best Albums of the ’90s | Music | Slant Magazine
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“The torture memos are a transparent attempt to circumvent domestic and...”
– Mischief Or Justice, Ctd
The day after the people of Egypt overthrew a dictator and torture-enabler (US government-funded torture enabler, that is) it’s worth remembering what’s been done in our name by the last two Presidents of the United States.
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“It is spreading. It’s already spreading,” she said. “And...”
– NYC Mosque Foe Pam Geller On Egypt: Bad for Freedom
Mubarak isn’t the only person living in a bubble.
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“Islamist groups were responsible for a whopping 0.34 percent of all terrorist...”
– The overblown threat from ‘Islamic terrorism’
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“Israel, note the peaceniks, rules a large and disaffected population of...”
– Worried Israel: Bad news for the Jewish state via Egypt
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“There were only 19,235 registered Twitter accounts in Iran (0.027 percent of the...”
– Reality Check: Wallflowers at the Revolution
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“The Egyptian government pulled the plug on its four main Internet providers and...”
– Fuck the Internet, ctd.
Wallflowers at the Revolution - NYTimes.com
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