February 2011
January 2011
listening to "The Decemberists - A Cautionary... →
you bet it’s cautionary. ;)
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¡fuckyeahGuadalupe! →
“Plus every time he opened his mouth, Pres. George W. Bush proved that the...”
– The government does not control your grammar, The Web of Language
Despite the claims of mass murderers and freepers, the government does not control your grammar. The government has no desire to control your grammar, and even if it did, it has no mechanism for exerting control: the schools, which...
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sense of style
happiness is discovering that your dad is so far out that he’s again in fashion. tonight, i found out that hipsters prefer his style of shirt. and! i located new ones and ordered some for him. ;D
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Life Without Left Turns →
I’m not the only one. UPS minimizes left turns for its delivery trucks to save on fuel. (And it works, as the Mythbusters demonstrated last year.) In the 1960s, the state of Michigan designed an intersection known as the “Michigan left” that prevents people driving on side streets from making left turns onto a multi-laned divided road; if they wish to go left, they’ll first have to go right and...
“I look at it as kind of a technological yard sale…(a) bunch of junk shows...”
– William & Mary - In the media: Hiding behind the web
George Grayson, professor of government, spoke with Newsweek about the practice among Mexican press outlets not to report what the drug cartels don’t want public and the work of an anonymous blogger to fill the reporting gaps.
“Some of the ideas it contains reach across ages and oceans, to antiquity; more...”
– The battle over the Constitution : The New Yorker
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Molly Molloy: The TT Interview
The only real social infrastructure in many cities in developing countries is the family. That’s what keeps the social structure together. If you create an economic situation that works against the family structure, which I believe is what the maquiladora system has done in Juárez, you end up with a lot of children being raised with very little parenting.
What I want to do eventually is create a database that will allow us to actually see who the murder victims are, because if you can really look at the murder victims with their names, their ages, how they died, what kind of car they were driving — all these details are available — then you could counter the argument, or the pronouncements, made by people like the president of Mexico, echoed by many people in the U.S. government and press that 90 percent of the people killed are criminals. There’s no evidence that they’re criminals. The data — who these people actually are, how and when they died — just that simple data will be a very important element of truth in the future if and when this terrible phenomena ceases and we can actually look and see what happened in Juárez.
David Brock Explains to Chris Matthews That Beck...
DAVID BROCK: But this is not street theater, as you know.
Glenn Beck himself has been responsible for three thwarted assassination attempts this year. And Sarah Palin --
CHRIS MATTHEWS: How is he responsible for them?
BROCK: Well, you want to know what they are?
MATTHEWS: You said it.
BROCK: Sure.
So, he burned Nancy Pelosi in effigy on his set. He tried to poison her with a chalice. OK. Some three weeks later, somebody tried to firebomb Nancy Pelosi`s house. That guy`s mother went on television and said he gets all his ideas from FOX News.
Do you know about Senator Patty Murray and the death threat that she got?
MATTHEWS: No. Go ahead.
BROCK: OK. It`s recorded. The guy says after the health care vote, he says, you have a target on your back and I can accomplish what I want to accomplish with one bullet.
He`s tried, convicted, and in the sentencing phase, his cousin writes in for leniency and she describes in a very chilling memo -- it`s on our Web site -- that he was slowly drawn into Glenn Beck`s world. And she portrays the guy, the attempted assassin, Charlie Wilson, as a victim of Beck.
And, number three, which you probably do know about, this liberal foundation in San Francisco was targeted by a gunman, Byron Williams, in June. The shooter gave jailhouse interviews -- and we published them -- and he says Glenn Beck is a schoolteacher on television and points to specific episodes of the Glenn Becks show that inspired him to do it.
MATTHEWS: Oh, God.
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TO THE NEW YEAR by W. S. Merwin
This is the poem by current US Poet Laureate W.S Merwin that was read by University of Arizona President Robert N. Shelton at the end of the Memorial Service for the Victims of the Shooting in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday 12, 2011.
TO THE NEW YEAR
by W. S. Merwin
With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley
your first sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high...
