April 2012
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via especiallyrelative)
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Crockpot: The Floating Wind Turbine Project That...
Tokyo’s terrifying, beautiful tire monster and other playground masterpieces.
Why Google’s CEO wants to pan for gold on an asteroid.
How New Orleans became a filmmaking Mecca in the years after Katrina.
Read more: http://www.utne.com/weekly-digest/utne-reader/crockpot/042412.aspx#ixzz1tBdF6T2Q
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“We must go back to freedom or forward to slavery.”
– G.K. Chesterton, in the Introduction to William Cobbett’s Cottage Economy (via gkchestertonquote)
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Government Works: Why Reputation Management Could...
“Four years ago, we really could be hopeful about change. In 2012, the election will simply be about trying to tread water and making sure we don’t drown. We can bemoan this (and I do). But we can also study it, think about it, try to draw lessons from it. The obvious lesson is that one election can’t change the country in a more progressive direction. Well, then, what can?”
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Who Needs Feminism?: I NEED FEMINISM →
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Because I snapped at my brother after he told a domestic violence joke and was insulted that I didn’t laugh, and then felt the need to apologize and explain it away with a bad mood. I am disgusted with myself because he is the one that should have apologized.
Because after watching this…
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Hipster Logic Problems by Larry Fleury
Train A leaves from a platform that you probably never heard of traveling at 60 mph. Train B leaves one hour later from the same platform going 85 mph. How long will it take train B to catch up with train A, and which is going to an M83 concert?
More Hipster Logic Problems at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Image: Richard Faulder via Creative Commons
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“Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic...”
– from Rex W. Huppke’s obituary of Facts (360 B.C.-A.D. 2012). (via washingtonpoststyle)
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Single-Payer Health Care For the Win? →
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“When you use the word ‘flummox,’ for instance, your tongue is rolling across the...”
– B.K. Loren, from “Word Hoard” in Parabola, v.28, no.3, August 2003 (via apoetreflects)
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Jesus Shaves →
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by David Sedaris
“And who brings the chocolate?” the teacher asked. I knew the word, and so I raised my hand, saying, “The Rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.” My classmates reacted as though I’d attributed the delivery to the Antichrist. They were mortified.
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Robert Reich: Thoughts on Tax Day 2012 →
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As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote in 1904, “taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”
But the wealthiest Americans, who haven’t raked in as much of America’s income and wealth since the 1920s, are today paying a lower tax rate than they have in over thirty years. Even…
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Does Alternative Medicine Work?
I met Brian Berman, A physician of gentle and upbeat demeanor, outside the stately Greek columns that form the facade of one of the nation’s oldest medical-lecture halls, at the edge of the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore. […]
In addition to conducting research, the center provides medical care. Indeed, some patients wait as long as two months to begin...
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