May 2013
32 posts
WatchJust one more. Hearing her sing that beautifully out on the street just gives me chills.
Fox News Update: I was just informed that you can’t be masculine and liberal.
Staring into the news abyss: Day 1
I technically have a full undergraduate degree in journalism. To prevent News madness, I might as well draw on those semi-honed instincts
The story of the day is the IRS “targeting” of 501c4 groups. I will let The Economist sum it up:
Facing a surge in campaign groups formed during Mr Obama’s first years in the White House, and worried that many were too political to merit...
“Disclosure: The two authors of this post are in the same office, sitting about...”
– Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot - Dashiell Bennett and Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire
Do not miss. Easily the funniest thing I’ve seen this week.
Again. Please. Keep always reminding me about all the Important Things I miss out on by...
Headed to north Georgia to visit my parents.
(Gonna hear soooo much Fox News over the next few days)
“Any time you identify by what you are not, for myself, when you determine your...”
– Merlin Mann, Roderick On The Line (via dlheidemann)
Tumblr does not have a ‘like’ button powerful enough for this bit of wisdom from Merlin.
(via roderickin)
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This is not original or anything, but phone companies are fucking horseshit. It took me an hour to try to figure out how to cancel my (slow, shitty) internet on their website and I solved the problem by Googling it, not on the asinine and slow website.
Turns Out you have to call to cancel your internet. Which makes their website the most useless piece of horseshit ever devised. Also, it is 2013....
I am trying to write finish a paper on Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” discussing its contribution to our understand of war. What can you possibly say after typing the words “War is god?”
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of...
April 2013
57 posts
A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and... →
Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples... →
As Galadriel says, “Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember.” This man is doing the Lord’s work.
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Listen
Watchtherestoflife:
unfreshing:
this is my favorite video of the year so far
I love people.
“The earth fell away on every side equally in its arcature and by these limits...”
– Reading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian for a paper on war in literature. Man, that guy can write some bleak, hallucinatory punctuation-free prose.
Operation Gladio - Wikipedia, the free... →
I’m not one to post things about secret CIA projects, but Operation Gladio was frickin’ weird.
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And I love how powerful her voice is here. All the...
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I love the way this song starts out with a set of...
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