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...
“I’ve spent the last couple of weeks living in a monastery, largely to complete a...”
– The modern welfare state could learn a lot from the Medieval monastery -
“Civilization is a spiritual labor, an openness to revelation, a venture of...”
– Future tense, IV: America & the angels of Sacré-Cœur by David B. Hart - The New Criterion
More from that same DB Hart essay.
“After all—and this is a truth so certain that only the most doctrinaire Marxist...”
– David Bentley Hart in The New Criterion. (via slowpilgrim)
“I sometimes run a very old version of The Sims to optimize living conditions for...”
– An interview with Amber Case
Oh my.