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It’s been 22 years, but it feels like yesterday. We still miss you, Jim.
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> American Aquarium Drinker: barthel: Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United...
Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United States just endorsed gay marriage several years after passing health care reform. Do you know how many of those things were inconceivable 5 years ago? You can be happy about this without having to be happy about…
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> Racism: A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism'
There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not preoccupied you are with your black…
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Nina Simone - The Black Swan (live)
New coffee jam.
Reason With Me - Sinead O’Connor
(Source: Spotify)
“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple,
and the simple thing is the right thing.”– Oscar Wilde
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> The End of Sprawl?
“it shows the locational advantage of being in the biggest cities. The core is what’s left of our competitiveness as a country.”
> Pollitics: The Policy of Compassion
In politics, we often lose track of who is truly losing.
We often get wrapped up in vile attacks (Reince Preibus comparing the “War on Women” to “War on Caterpillars”), proposed bills (“transvaginal” probing) and elected officials who rather stand in the way than get out of it.
In the midst of…
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The trouble with the Gross Domestic Product…
“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Billie Holiday, 1958. Photographer: Dennis Stock (via)
“I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the word ‘love.’ Maybe I remember what those words are all about. Maybe I’m proud enough to want to remember Baltimore and Welfare Island, the Catholic institution and the Jefferson Market Court, the sheriff in front of our place in Harlem and the towns from coast to coast where I got my lumps and scars, Philly and Alderson, Hollywood and San Francisco, every damn bit of it.
All the Cadillacs and minks in the world - and I’ve had a few - can’t make it up or make me forget it. All I’ve learned in all those places from all those people is wrapped up in those two words. You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave. Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that.”
-Holiday, quoted in Lady Sings the Blues (1956)
Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had
(Source: newyorker.com)
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