October 2011
September 2011
jthurteau asked: You seem to be a pretty big fan of where you live. Would you ever move? Short term? Long Term? What sorts of places would you like to live, even if only for a few months? What kinds of criteria do you consider when thinking about a place to live?
2 tags
4 tags
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot →
Last year, the FBI subjected 19-year-old Somali-American Mohamed Osman Mohamud to months of encouragement, support and money and convinced him to detonate a bomb at a crowded Christmas event in Portland, Oregon, only to arrest him at the last moment and then issue a Press Release boasting of its success. In late 2009, the FBI persuaded and enabled Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year old...
2 tags
“Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether...”
– Robert Reich, The Moral Question
4 tags
“So-called anti-fraud laws are almost always thinly veiled attempts to prevent...”
– Marge Baker, executive vice president of People for the American Way, quoted in The truth about voter suppression
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
“It’s uncomfortable to admit this, but technology has made the ability to...”
– Chuck Klosterman
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's... →
While the new strategy, known as “Look Back Before You Act,” has raised concerns among people worried they will have to remember lots of events from long ago, the historians have assured Americans they won’t be required to read all the way through thick books or memorize anything.
Instead, citizens have been told they can just find a large-print, illustrated timeline of...
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
Perfectionism →
Causes and Characteristics
Fear of failure and rejection. The perfectionist believes that she will be rejected or fail if she is not always perfect, so she becomes paralyzed and unable to produce or perform at all.
Fear of success. The perfectionist believes that if he is successful in what he undertakes, he will have to keep it up. This becomes a heavy burden—who wants to operate at such a high...
2 tags
Per diem wish
If I were ever to run into some kind of genie apprentice capable of granting any wish for the duration of just one day I would ask to know what it is like to feel confident.
No matter what other progress I’ve made over the years, I’m incessantly plagued by neurosis and rarely see anything attractive in the mirror. For just one day I would love to not be racked with doubt and body...
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
“But for those who believe that protests are only worthwhile if they translate...”
– Glenn Greenwald, What’s behind the scorn for Wall Street protests?
1 tag
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the...”
– John Maynard Keynes, New Statesman and Nation, July 15, 1933
“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation...”
– David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via judyxberman)
Bingo.
3 tags
The New Cult Canon presents Wet Hot American... →
In honor of its 10th anniversary, co-writer/director David Wain will join A.V. Club critic Scott Tobias for a special screening of Wet Hot American Summer, a brilliant absurdist riff on the camp—as in summer camp—comedies of his youth.
This could be fun.
3 tags
“As Cervantes realized in the context of the newly born mass culture of the...”
– William Egginton, “‘Quixote,’ Colbert and the Reality of Fiction”
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde 