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Bradbury: ….I find this in most fields. The need for romance is constant, and again, it’s pooh-poohed by intellectuals. As a result they’re going to stunt their kids. You can’t kill a dream. Social obligation has to come from living with some sense of style, high adventure, and romance. It’s like my friend Mr. Electrico. Interviewer: That’s the character who...
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Court: Suspects Must Say They Want to be Silent →
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one dissenting justice said turns defendants’ rights “upside down.”
A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda rights warnings, which police recite to suspects during...
May 2010
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Silver-Spoon Vanguardism →
I suspect that while Zuckerberg spins publicity as a social good, he actually believes it’s a moral one. It’s a theme that’s become pretty common among execs of data-collecting, data-publicizing companies: making it so that anything anyone does can be seen by anyone they know is a way of keeping them honest. Check out this quote he gave David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, in an ...
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WatchI just like this a lot.
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“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have...”
– Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (via liquidnight) (via devilduck) (via drunkenboat)
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In Defense Of Rand Paul (Kinda) - The Daily Dish |... →
Worse, Paul’s entirely abstract intellectual argument wrests pure principles out of an actual society, with actual historical atrocities, violence, oppression and contempt. That’s why I cannot be a libertarian the way some others like Paul are. I do not believe you can rectify an abstraction like liberty and separate it from the context - historical, cultural, moral - in which it...
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the lesson of the moth
i was talking to a moth the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires
why do you fellows pull this stunt i asked him because it is the conventional thing for moths or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder have you no sense
plenty of it he answered ...
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Slicing Ginger
Ralph Black Not sex. Not sex, but sexual: the way the weather hangs at the edges of sight, the way the paring knife, pressed and warm as any lover to my hand, slides just under the soaked brown skin, opening the earth of it, opening the undiscovered white- fleshed seam in the scarred and sacred earth: the lemon-sweet, lemon- sweet ringing of bodies through the room. Plumes of longing bleed in my...
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Insect that fights Japanese knotweed to be... →
It sounds like they’re being careful with it, but…
However, some critics say that it is impossible to be certain that the Japanese insect will only target the superweed and could attack other species once in the wild.
I remember reading a book as kid about a town overrun with mice. They bring in cats to rid the mice, then dogs to rid cats, and so on and so on until...
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“Then Boris Yeltsin looked at Amalfitano with curiosity, as if it were Amalfitano...”
– 2666, Roberto Bolaño
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“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he...”
– 2666 - Roberto Bolaño (via hotparade)
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April 2010
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Rainy day tune
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Gerry...
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Grill me a cheese
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“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue.
To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no...
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Adventure
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly … Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
- Adelaide Crapsey
March 2010
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WatchNeat thing on the language of the Pledge of Allegiance. Bonus vocabulary:hapax legomenon!
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via mitochondrion) (via generic1)
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jazzchannel:
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Herbie Handock -...
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Spring Kenneth Koch
Let’s take a walk In the city Till our shoes get wet (It’s been raining All night) and when We see the traffic Lights and the moon Let’s take a smile Off the ashcan, let’s walk Into town (I mean A lemon peel)
Let’s make music (I hear cats Purply beautiful| Like hallways in summer Made of snowing rubber Valence piccalilli and diamonds) Oh see the arch ruby Of this late March...
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I'm on assignment
Poetry assignment, for reals. I have the names of 27 poets I need to find poems from, by next week.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
- Gravity’s Rainbow. p.699
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danielholter:
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comedycentral:
Haggard’s Law – The likelihood of a person harboring secret desires to engage in sexual and/or romantic activities with members of the same sex is directly proportional to the frequency and volume of said person’s vocalized objections to homosexuality.
“Haggard’s Law,” Please Add It to Your Lexicon
So true ….
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