September 2011
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“The best part about writing your first novel is that you never have to do it...”
– Christopher Bollen
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Watchthepoliticalnotebook:
“After War, From Wife to Caregiver.” This is a heartbreaking look at a wife dealing with helping her husband, a veteran of two tours in Iraq with the US Air Force, who has suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury. April Marcum had to leave her job to make sure her husband Tom could get to his medical appointments and remember to take his medications. She says,
“The biggest loss...
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What's Behind the Scorn for the Wall Street... →
kateoplis:
By Glenn Greenwald
It’s unsurprising that establishment media outlets have been condescending, dismissive and scornful of the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Any entity that declares itself an adversary of prevailing institutional power is going to be viewed with hostility by establishment-serving institutions and their loyalists. That’s just the nature of protests that take place...
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“I’m proud of her because I think she’s brave. I’m proud that she’s able to form...”
– Shannone Ball, the mother of 19-year-old Rheannone Ball, who appeared on the front page of the NY Daily News Sunday screaming as cops tied her hands back. She was released from custody last night and has rejoined the protest.
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The Neuroscience of Beauty →
The notion of “the aesthetic” is a concept from the philosophy of art of the 18th century according to which the perception of beauty occurs by means of a special process distinct from the appraisal of ordinary objects. Hence, our appreciation of a sublime painting is presumed to be cognitively distinct from our appreciation of, say, an apple. The field of “neuroaesthetics” has adopted this...
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“I mean, what are the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth,...”
– Noam Chomsky
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It's Official: Apple to hold iPhone event on...
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“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state...”
– Obama says GOP debates ‘not reflective of who we are’
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“That may be what they think in that Harvard faculty lounge, but it’s not what...”
– Mitt Romney, essentially calling Obama weak. Of course, Romney has never been on a battlefield and has two degrees from Harvard. Romney’s foreign policy and economics advisors are Harvard graduates, too, as are three of his children. (via ericmortensen)
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White House Petition: making election day a... →
sarahlee310:
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: propose legislation that would make all federal election days national holidays to increase voter turnout.
Every federal election should be a national holiday to increase voter turnout. The 2008 Presidential election holds the record for voter turnout with 63% of eligible voters voting. However good it is that 63% of voters voted, 37% did...
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“Sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military”? That will be a...”
– Amy Davidson on Rick Santorum. (via thenoobyorker)
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Nirvana - “Lithium”
Sept 24, 1991:...
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Our Hidden Government Benefits →
A 2008 poll of 1,400 Americans by the Cornell Survey Research Institute found that when people were asked whether they had “ever used a government social program,” 57 percent said they had not. Respondents were then asked whether they had availed themselves of any of 21 different federal policies, including Social Security, unemployment insurance, the home-mortgage-interest deduction and...
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“(Capital punishment) is … the most premeditated of murders, to which no...”
– Albert Camus
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Watchvimeo:
As many of you know, finding music for your videos can be somewhat… well, painful. Licensing music on your own can be confusing and finding good free music can take forever. Many of us here at Vimeo are video creators or filmmakers as well and we experience these frustrations on a regular basis. So, we decided to do something about it. Introducing Vimeo Music Store! Vimeo Music Store...
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“BACHMANN: “President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any...”
– Fact checking last night’s debate
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To Find Work You Love, Ask Yourself These Four... →
azspot:
What or whom do you envy?
What did you love to do when you were a child?
What work do you gravitate to, even when it’s unpaid or unnecessary?
What makes you cry?
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“I will never think of America the same way after the Bush-Cheney administration....”
– Andrew Sullivan
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Troy Davis’ Final Words
good:
“I did not personally kill your son, father, brother…All I can ask is that you look deeper into this case so you really can finally see the truth.” To those that performed the execution: “May God have mercy on your souls; may God bless your souls.”
via the New York Times
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Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera →
Wadaj Khanfar, the director of Al Jazeera, announced his resignation today after Wikileaks released documents that could prove embarassing to the news organization, the New York Times has reported.
According to the documents, Khanfar held particularly close ties with the U.S. government, to whom he promised the network would provide less critical coverage. He steps down today after running the...
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My questions for the next GOP debate.
hipsterlibertarian:
The cool folks at DC Decoder are rounding up short sets of questions/expectations/hopes for the next GOP debate from a handful of political bloggers on tumblr. I’m not totally sure what the end goal is, but it sounds like a sweet idea. They were kind enough to ask me to participate, and these are the questions I submitted:
If you support a strong defense, do you want to...
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http://dcdecoder.com/post/10518299352 →
dcdecoder:
New polling data shows Mitt Romney cruising in New Hampshire, with nearly quadruple the support of Jon Huntsman, the candidate in third place. Wait, why’d you skip to the third place guy? Who’s in second?
Ron Paul, of course.
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Another Fox Nation Death Threat Reported To The... →
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“They passed state-run health care, they have sanctioned gay marriage, and they...”
– Rick Perry
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“[C]hanges in technology and society have made the lines between private citizen...”
– Judge Kermit Lipez, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in a ruling in favor of Simon Glik, a Massachusetts man arrested for videotaping police officers with his cell phone as they detained another man. Glik was accused of illegal wiretapping, aiding the escape of a prisoner and disturbing...
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“Mia Foster says she was curious to check out the Wall Street protest because she...”
– Searching for Hope in America (via pantslessprogressive)
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