May 2013
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A heckler makes a good point but jumps the gun at...
Given my administration’s relentless pursuit of al Qaeda’s leadership, there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never have been opened. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Excuse me, President Obama —
THE PRESIDENT: So — let me finish, ma’am. So today, once again —
AUDIENCE MEMBER: There are 102 people on a...
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“NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do...”
– Why the persecution complex, Christians?
And why can’t we all work toward peace instead of wishing for it?
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Natural Disasters
Leaving aside the injustices and cruelties that humans inflict on each—those are easily blamed by Christians on debased human nature—I wonder how natural disasters are the result of original sin.
And then I realize that when the founts of the deep broke up before the flood of Noah, it set in motion natural processes that God would allow to continually punish humanity for Adam’s...
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“…the current period is probably the temporal equivalent of flyover country. You...”
– Yishan Wong, Why aren’t people from the future time travelling to our period in history? (via soupsoup)
Is it because time travel is physically impossible or is it that our time period is just too boring?
Ours is not a destination time period but it’s the one in which we are living so it...
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Lois Beckett: Nullification →
The concept of nullification has had a resurgence since the beginning of President Obama’s administration. More than a dozen states have introduced bills to nullify Obamacare.
The Tenth Amendment Center, a group that advocates nullification as the solution to a range of policy issues, from marijuana legalization to Obamacare, publishes model gun nullification language.
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“The ironic life is certainly a provisional answer to the problems of too much...”
– Posted without irony. But now it feels like that was an ironic statement. I sincerely like this article. Sincerely. Eh, you can’t win.
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April 2013
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“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via azspot)
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March 2013
17 posts
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“Walking toward the end of some city block, George Plimpton appeared around the...”
– First documented appearance of George Plimpton in my dreams. That is what I get for following The Paris Review on tumblr.
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“This is a ticket to a concert hosted by a concert venue. Per WAC 458-20-183, the...”
– Washington has a law that prohibits dancing. But Phosphorescent isn’t really a dancing kind of show anyway.
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“The future of the human race is something we ought to take seriously, since...”
– From John Jeremiah Sullivan’s brilliant Violence of the Lambs.
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“My prayers are unheard,
But thy sublime indifference will ensure
That I burn...”
– Requiem: The Hocus Pocus Laundromat
By Kurt Vonnegut
(via)
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“Policymakers, members of the public, and journalists once focused on aspects of...”
– Public opinion has shifted to the consensus that there are very few deserving poor but those who have personal experience with economic setbacks are more likely to support public assistance. I’m assuming they have more empathy for the leeches.
Via Kevin Lewis’ Findings.
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“Never to have been born is best,
But once you’ve entered this world,
Return as...”
– From Sophocles’ “Oedipus at Colonus”
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#Riot →
tetw:
by Bill Wasik
Self-organized, hyper-networked revolts, coming soon to a city near you.
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WatchColbert on budget sequestration. His proposal for the next budget deal has something to do with a monkey suspended by rope above the House floor.
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February 2013
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Upon This Rock →
tetw:
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
A visit to Cross-Over, the world’s biggest Christian music festival.
I just read this in Pulphead. He actually went to Creation, which is the world’s biggest music festival. Still a great read.
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“Belief and nonbelief are two giant planets, the orbits of which don’t...”
– From Upon This Rock by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
An essay about Christian rock.
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“Conservatives should start to lead again and push their states to join the nine...”
– Jon Huntsman, being too reasonable again.
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“It was a breakthrough (hardwon, late in coming) when I realized that there is...”
– From Gchatting with George Saunders.
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No way!:
Prison sentences of black men were nearly 20% longer than those of white men for similar crimes in recent years, an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.
That racial gap has widened since the Supreme Court restored judicial discretion in sentencing in 2005, according to the Sentencing Commission’s findings, which were submitted to Congress last month and released publicly...
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“There is no foreshadowing in dreams and sometimes they have what-the-fuck...”
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“Our study suggests that marriage reduces the risk of acute coronary events and...”
– So why would you want to exclude same-sex couples from the legal arrangement that confers these health benefits?
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