July 2011
29 posts
Things They Might Never Tell You 101
danharmon:
Thirty seconds after it gets easy, you will forget how hard it was.
Time does not advance 1 second per second. It advances 1 important moment at a time. You have less and less of these as you get used to them, therefore, the older you get, the faster time goes.
[I assume] you can jump out of as many airplanes as you want, and the above fact will never change. The reason for this...
“The Hamburglar does not have what I would describe as a keen criminal mind. His...”
– Ted Wilson Reviews The World #95 - The Rumpus.net (via peterwknox)
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson (via myvelvetgoldmine)
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Can Obama Pull a Clinton on the GOP?
robertreich:
After a bruising midterm election, the president moves to the political center. He distances himself from his Democratic base. He calls for cuts in Social Security and signs historic legislation ending a major entitlement program. He agrees to balance the budget with major cuts in domestic discretionary spending. He has a showdown with Republicans who threaten to bring...
The Crockpot: A Weekly Link-Digest from Utne
utnereader:
You know those packets of silica gel found in boxes of new shoes and beef jerky that you’re not supposed to eat? One writer set out to discover what happens if you actually do eat them and ended at a surprising answer.
Choose your drugs wisely, counsels Sam Harris.
Getting his PhD in literature was a terrible mistake until Richard Russo realized it was turning him into a...
“Birth is suffering, growth is suffering, the seed suffers the earth, the root...”
– Hermann Hesse (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
We Must Be Superstars: In defense of pop (maybe... →
youmightfindyourself:
So far, I’m not quite old enough to entertain any worries about the youth of the nation or the deficiencies of their character. Plenty of today’s young adults actually strike me as irritatingly great: Growing up with the Internet means they knew by age 10 what I learned last week, and a lot of them seem awfully bold and brave about asserting themselves all over everyone.
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The System as a Schopenhauerian Monstrosity
tsparks:
No one has keener insight in to the way modern neo-liberal politics distorts English society more than Mark Fisher (aka K-Punk). This is an excerpt from a post today analyzing the ** News Of The World** scandal. This story is very important and will not be covered properly by British or American Press, sense the Press is the story.
Via: K-Punk
July 08, 2011
UK TABLOID
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