July 2010
1 post
“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than...”
– Theodor Adorno
May 2010
2 posts
“This loss of historical continuity in values and beliefs, taken together with...”
– David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 56-57
“In other words, [Rand Paul] prioritizes the property rights of whites who only...”
– Tim Wise (via newleft)
March 2010
1 post
I, like an usurp’d town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy; Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, ...
February 2010
3 posts
Better Late Than Never
Well, somehow I missed my traditional winter quoting of Ezra Pound with the first nasty storm of the season, but as we’re heading into round 12839 of SnOMG 2010, the lack has become painfully glaring. Sing:
Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, Freezeth river, turneth liver, ...
Famous Directors Direct the Superbowl. →
January 2010
7 posts
“On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season...”
– Peter Brook, The Empty Space
“Under the majority’s view, I suppose it may be a First Amendment problem that...”
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Justice Stevens
“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court...”
– Justice Stevens, dissenting
Numbers →
azspot:
GDP of Haiti: $8.5 billion.
Goldman Sachs bonus pool: $20 billion.
“This is why today’s China is so unsettling…what if this strain of authoritarian...”
– Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
December 2009
3 posts
November 2009
2 posts
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of...”
– Cormac McCarthy
October 2009
3 posts
“To demonise state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit...”
F. A. Hayek, Arch-communist
“Nor is there any reason why the state should not assist the individuals in providing for those common hazards of life against which, because of their uncertainty, few individuals can make adequate provision. Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of...
September 2009
2 posts
A Great Need
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For that.
(Hafiz, 14th c.)
Principled Opposition
I don’t agree with Sullivan on most of his policy positions (surprise, surprise) but I do respect that he at least tries to be a voice of reason:
The protestors keep saying that they want their country back. Sorry, my fellow small-governmenters, but this country is a democracy, and you didn’t lose your country, you just lost an election. You had your chance for eight years. You blew...
May 2009
1 post
Best Song Intro Ever
“…It’s about how when you can’t be with somebody, that maybe you weren’t ready to not be with… and you try your best to, you know, not obsess and be uncool, you know… but maybe the situation is that every so often, when things are weird for them at home they, they still holler at you and break you off a little chunk, and … and you know you...
April 2009
2 posts
“If you’ve seen one flu pandemic, you’ve seen one flu pandemic.”
Waste not
The electricity the average American uses in their lifetime results in 68 tons of solid waste when generated using coal.
If produced by nuclear power, the same lifetime energy load results in 2 pounds of solid waste.
March 2009
6 posts
“The New York Yankees — the Microsoft of baseball teams.”
“There is no such thing as ‘no movement’.”
– Martha Graham
Just saying.
I’ve been (forced) to be working on a Windows machine for just about a month now. In that time, I have had to reboot it more than BOTH my Macs have been rebooted all year.
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“Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele, and Rush Limbaugh — the axis of drivel.”
– Charles Blow, in the New York Times.
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This might help
Turns out there’s a nifty little iPhone gadget that lets me post anytime the mood strikes me.
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3.0 (at least)
So I’ve decided don’t want to maintain a full WordPress installation for this blog.(I got a healthy shove by way of another security warning for WP that I just didn’t want to deal with.) Plus I’m finding I don’t seem to feel the urge to write much long-form content. You may have noticed this, since I haven’t updated in months.
Thusly, I’m relaunching...