January 2012
19 posts
“The walls are covered with Bay City Rollers and David Soul posters. And the shot...”
– BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE GHOSTS IN THE LIVING ROOM
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to learn that Adam Curtis has a BBC blog.
“Hey look, an awesome mashup!”
– Bloggers (via philk)
WatchOur life in 2008.
“Giving away books, especially to coworkers, has made me extremely worried about...”
– The Cigarette Smoking Blog: I’m Giving Away Half the Books I Own (and I Feel Fine)
“Finnish military intelligence gauged American troops’ mobility and action...”
– Finland and American intelligence: Secret history | The Economist
Go Finns. Glad we never had to nuke you guys.
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
I have often been asked if Christopher defended me because he was my close friend. The truth is that he became my close friend because he wanted to defend me.
“Despite his own many unpleasant encounters with the FSB, Harding doubts that...”
– Stephen Holmes reviews ‘Mafia State’ by Luke Harding · LRB 5 January 2012
“Very few Americans go to subtitled foreign films anymore; thus, the Swedish...”
– Fight the (Imaginary) Power - Taki’s Magazine
Steve Sailer, reviewing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
December 2011
38 posts
“I think what this is doing right now is starting a dialogue about crack smoking.”
– Vancouver is giving out free crack pipes. (via thehorriblenewsfact)
“But to stay abreast of such would-be mobs, police would need to monitor social...”
– #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You | Magazine
“The children who file into Anawalt Elementary School here each morning carry...”
– Teachers union leads effort that aims to turn around West Virginia school system - The Washington Post
This sentence deserves a place of honor in any “Bad Writing about Appalachia” collection. What is this “haze from the nearby coal mines?” Are there photos of it? Is is...
“The next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will...”
– Marshall McLuhan, 1962 (via ayjay)
“Pop-up Videos,” prophesied!
“If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find...”
– Exact nonsense
Here, expressed in perfect concision, we see the imbecile religion of our era: cargo-cult positivism.
America's One-Child Policy
An error message from the Amtrak website:
Problem with Too Many Children: Our fare rules provide that no more than two children per adult may travel at the children’s discounted fare. Children exceeding that 2:1 ratio must travel at the standard adult fare. To continue, re-characterize any children exceeding the 2:1 ratio as “adults”. Please note that infants (under age 2) do...
Chris Mohney: The Bank Guard with the Serpent... →
chrismohney:
I don’t know if this SOP in our post-Occupy world here in NYC, but all this week I’ve observed a new personality at the Bank of America branch near my office (19 & Park). Normally there is a “greeter” there near the ATMs, placed to issue sunny hellos to anyone coming in to grab cash for the week,…
Here in Charlottesville, Virginia, there were rent-a-cops outside every Bank...
“Of course, the Mormon experience comes nowhere close to the Jewish history of...”
– Could Mitt Romney Be the First Jewish President? - Timothy Stanley - Politics - The Atlantic
These things. I did not know them.
“Such an easy prevailing of private interests over justice is often regarded as a...”
– The Great Transformation, by Karl Polanyi
I’ve quoted this before, but it’s on my mind pretty often.
“For example, we assume that technological change will inevitably be accompanied...”
– Prevailing Over Technology | The Prevail Project Via Reihan.
I grant Rybczynski this point. I would find myself shockingly inconvenienced were I to suddenly find myself in the old West or Merrie Olde England. One tryst with the wrong poxy strumpet, and I’d be all “get me back to the...
