August 2010
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July 2010
16 posts
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“Of course the anti-wiretapping statute that the Maryland state police cite is...”
– Scott Horton, Tales from Stasiland: The policeman’s right not to be on YouTube.
It’s hard for a liberty-loving and law-abiding citizen to determine how to regard so-called law-enforcement officers in a place that allows this kind of thing (it’s happened in Portland, too). On the one...
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Red Families, Blue Families, Gay Families, and the... →
An incisive article by Jonathan Rauch in which he distills ideas on the red and blue state norms of family, adulthood, sex, and child-rearing. This article is lengthy, but worth reading, for it goes far beyond the typical rehashing of the idiocies of “the other side” that passes for commentary on most blogs (mine included) and tries to address some of the cultural whys that lead to...
bringtheruckuss: how to be a human →
alaskamiller reblogged bringtheruckuss:
stop giving a fuck. if you find yourself feeling self-conscious or shy just evaluate all of the fucks that you are currently giving, consider the merit of each of these fucks, and if no use of these fucks can be found then maybe you should stop giving so many fucks to so many people.
I know the mathematical formula to how much fuck a fucker should...
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“I lived awhile without you,
darn near half my life.
I no longer see our unborn...”
– Greg Brown, “Spring Wind,” off the Dream Cafe album
Some days it seems like memory is a kind of illness.
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"The Guard's 176th Wing is leaving Kulis, its home... →
The times, they are a-changin’. Sad.
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I write like...
Exhibit A:
I write like William Shakespeare
Exhibit B:
I write like William Gibson
Exhibit C:
I write like George Orwell
All via: I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Key: (in reverse order)
Exhibit C: an Orwellian blog post about Sam Harris’s book
Exhibit B: a Gibsonesque blog post about the stupid iPhone 4.0 theft story
Exhibit A: an...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Sara Mayeux on Johannes... →
Or rather:
Johannes Mehserle on how he feels about shooting Oscar Grant
Sara Mayeux on restorative justice vs. retributive justice in our broken legal system
TNC on the problem (unfairness) of police power in our legal system
All of it worth reading and contemplating. I like posting about this topic with this link-within-a-link/quote-within-a-quote style because it exposes the oniony layers...
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“When McCain told Newsweek earlier this year that he has never considered himself...”
– Jacob Weisberg, The saddest senator: Why John McCain has become so painful to watch.
True torture lovers, all.
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Black or White
kathleenjoy:
You can only walk in the middle for so long. Tea or coffee. Vanilla or chocolate. Barefoot or shodden. Drunk or sober. The beach or the mountains. In love or heartbroken. Short hair or long hair. Dreams or not-remembering. Robot or nervous breakdown. Make a choice.
Well this is just timely as all get-out.
“It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend...”
– Aristotle via AS.
A fellow is capable of occasional introspection.
“Whatever you want to say about hookers, at least they actually provide a service...”
– aaronsw, responding to NYMag’s “puff piece” on political columnist David Brooks.
“A real-world comparison [to “cyberwar” attacks] might be if an army...”
– Schneier on Security: The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated.
“My wife and I subscribe to the scenario that wittingly or not, Palin, through...”
– Progressive Alaska: The Courage of Shannyn Moore - Part Six - The Wild Ride Begins Again.
Personally, I’ve always considered this to be the most likely scenario. Except I think she did it wittingly — even if she won’t admit it to anyone. It’s a scenario that presents just...