February 2012
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Seeking a frontier
I wish there was an unexplored and uninhabited place to colonize. If there were space colonies, I’d sign up to ship off. I’m ready for an adventure, and to learn about myself through real challenge and adversity. I need to be pushed by circumstances to step up, and I want a complete break. I would probably die in the process of such an adventure, but at least it would be an...
“We are a democracy. We can only have as good a foreign policy as the public’s...”
– Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, told PBS NewsHour last night.
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Added to my personal visions of hell
There is an area of the sub-basement where I now have to go to drop off blood samples to a particular lab. When I walked into the area for the first time today the lights were flickering, there was a constant buzzing/humming sound, and everything just looked run down and shabby. The people walking around down there whom I can only assume work there made me feel abundant pity. It felt like the...
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NEXT ART CHICAGO CANCELLED
chicagoart:
BREAKING NEWS: NEXT ART CHICAGO CANCELLED
via Chicago Tribune,
“We just received word that the long-running Art Chicago fair, which was going to be combined this year with the NEXT Fair (with a rebranded name of Next Art Chicago), has been canceled. An email from organizers informs us that, “After a thorough analysis of the art fair landscape, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc....
“In a way, this silly little bare-bones reality show fills us with a little...”
– TLo RE: RuPaul’s Drag Race (via avedanke)
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“I’ve often made the case that one of the most consequential aspects of the Obama...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Repulsive progressive hypocrisy
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Repulsive progressive hypocrisy →
Repulsive liberal hypocrisy extends far beyond the issue of Guantanamo. A core plank in the Democratic critique of the Bush/Cheney civil liberties assault was the notion that the President could do whatever he wants, in secret and with no checks, to anyone he accuses without trial of being a Terrorist – even including eavesdropping on their communications or detaining them without due...
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“Many features of existing U.S. copyright law are harsh by international...”
– Margot Kaminski, The SOPA Debate Ignores How Much Copyright Protection We Already Have
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“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841
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Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At... →
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wilwheaton:
At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
I wonder what would happen if these pigfuckers would spend $100 Million to actually improve the lives of...
