May 2011
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“FIRE IN THE BELLY - an unquenchable thirst for power or glory; the burning drive...”
– “Safire’s New Political Dictionary” by William Safire (Random House, New York, 1993).
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Palin's possible 2012 run: Winners and losers
theweekmagazine:
Here, a look at who stands to gain — or lose — if Palin jumps into the race: WINNERS Mitt Romney “Nothing panics veteran GOP pols like the idea of having Sarah Palin at the top of the 2012 presidential ticket,” says John Ellis at Business Insider. She could do a huge amount of damage to down-ballot candidates who count on a strong presidential contender from their party to...
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Gil Scott-Heron - “The Revolution Will Not...
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“A new kind of magazine has indeed arrived online and its bringing editors into...”
– E-commerce Luring Top Editorial Talent (WWD)
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Holiday Weekend Reads
theatlantic:
For many of us here at The Atlantic, long weekends are a great opportunity to catch up on pleasure reading and peruse long form that we may not always have the chance to browse during the work week. If you’re looking to do the same, try Conor Friedersdorf’s list of nearly 100 fantastic pieces of journalism.
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California's highest-paid public pensioner will... →
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“Journalists the world over are struggling to cope with a social and mobile...”
– Mark Little
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“Zemeckis and Gale were trying to create an archetypical representation of 1985...”
– Back to the Future as period piece?
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How to Spot a Psychopath →
It was the French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel who first suggested, early in the 19th century, that there was a madness that didn’t involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it “manie sans délire” – insanity without delusions. He said sufferers appeared normal on the surface, but they lacked impulse controls and were prone to outbursts of violence. It wasn’t until 1891, when the German...
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Jay Electronica - ”Eternal Sunshine of the...
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“The most lasting significance of the eighties American indie scene might have...”
– Michael Azerrad talks to the Paris Review about Our Band Could Be Your Life.
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“Having to clean my teeth and look after my health.”
– What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Mark E. Smith answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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Hot Dystopic: Orwell and Huxley at the Shanghai...
lareviewofbooks:
The long-standing Huxley vs. Orwell debate got a 21st century New Media makeover in 2009, courtesy of cartoonist Stuart McMillen. In May of that year, he published an online comic entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death” that quickly went viral. At the top of this strip, which has been tweeted and re-tweeted many times and can now be found posted on scores of websites, we see...
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The Elephant in the Green Room →
longformorg:
The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.
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“I apologize. I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Syracuse University Commencement, Sunday, May 8th, 1994
(via wetgrassbelowblueblackabove)
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And I Should Know →
By Roseanne Barr for New York Magazine
It didn’t take long for me to get a taste of the staggering sexism and class bigotry that would make the first season of Roseanne god-awful. It was at the premiere party when I learned that my stories and ideas—and the ideas of my sister and my first husband, Bill—had been stolen. The pilot was screened, and I saw the opening credits for the first time,...
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Nick Hornby interviews The Wire creator David... →
My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Tyler, the Creator (31)
Earl Sweatshirt (31)
Gang Gang Dance (24)
Girls Names (23)
Kanye West (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than... →
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years after...
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Cannes film festival bans Lars von Trier
guardian:
Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
The director of Melancholia and former Palme d’Or winner reportedly ‘proud’ to have been declared ‘persona non grata’ by Cannes film festival organisers
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ShortFormBlog: Arnold Schwarzenegger had two kids... →
shortformblog:
09/27/97 the birthdate of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s youngest son with wife Maria Shriver.
10/02/97 the birthdate of Arnold’s son with his former housemaid; her husband left her three weeks later, source
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Afghan Prisoner at Guantanamo Dies in Apparent... →
theatlantic:
An Afghan prisoner was found dead at Guantanamo on Wednesday, having apparently committed suicide, the U.S. military has said. The prisoner, a 37-year-old man known as Inayatullah, is believed to be the sixth suicide at Guantanamo since the military began detaining suspected terrorists there in January 2002.
The details of Inayatullah’s death aren’t yet clear—The Guardian says he...
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Big Oil Companies Made $200,000 Every Minute in... →
Shell, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP America and Chevron Corp—the “Big Five” oil companies—reported a cumulative total earning of $36 billion in the first quarter of this year. As Huffington Post writer Erich Pica points out that’s “more than $200,000 every minute.” This jaw-dropping number has been accompanied by a hike in oil prices, which averaged out at about $3.98 per gallon for regular...
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International Day Against Homophobia and...
statedept:
Press Statement
Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC May 17, 2011
In every part of the world, men and women are persecuted and attacked because of who they are or whom they love. Homophobia, transphobia and the brutal hostility associated with them are often rooted in a lack of understanding of what it actually means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or...
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“As three of the SEALs reached the top of the steps on the third floor, they saw...”
– A detailed explanation of the Team 6 operation that took down bin Laden. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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