February 2012
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Rent a White Guy →
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“All for ourselves and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the...”
– Adam Smith (via azspot)
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“If you must eat crow, it is best to do so while it is still warm.”
– Shallow Sage (via sagequotes)
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It takes 380 cans of clean water to produce one can of Coca-Cola.
(Updated to add: sorry no link, source was speaker at Coke bldg.) I wonder how many bottles of water it takes to produce one bottle of water to sell?
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Bratty New Yorkers Want Tourists to Stay Away →
I enjoyed this post. I recall, living in SoHo years ago, the changeover of August: the tourists leave and the wealthy return from the Hamptons.
Those of us that lived there through the summer preferred the tourists.
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Words I'd like to retire in 2012
Utilize. Common usage: “We’ll utilize our phones if we run into trouble.”
Face it; you’re just going to use the phone as it was designed, and you don’t need to add two more syllables. Preferred phrase: “We’ll use our phones if we run into trouble.” Unless of course you’re planning on utilizing them as blunt objects in a fight, or some creative MacGyver-esque method. If you are, by all...
January 2012
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“In other words, contemporary liberalism offers religious groups a choice. They...”
– OR, they (Christian groups anyway) can follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, and focus on serving “the least among you,” as Jesus put it, regardless of their origin, and avoid both of those problems.
Believe it or not, some congregations do this. But in order to do so, to do as Christ...
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Submit a quote. →
Submit something timeless in its acknowledgement of the human condition.
Or something irrelevant to it.
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gingerhaze:
You know, I always assumed that those cartoon mascots who were hardcore addicted to breakfast cereal were just overreacting.
I mean, how addictive can sugary breakfast cereal be, anyway?
But I’ve had like six bowls of Honeycombs this morning and I can’t seem to stop and I’m starting to think that those commercials were just public service announcements about the addictive nature...
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“Crime has not fallen in the United States—it’s been shifted. Just as Wall Street...”
– n 1: Raise the Crime Rate (via ronmarks)
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Yes, you can make money without exploiting the... →
I was (briefly) a guest on a BBC World Service radio program this morning discussing Obama’s state of the union speech and income inequality in general. To my mind, this has always been a no-brainer. My argument is: we’ve done this experiment (of lowering taxes on the rich) twice now, once in the 1920’s and again in the 1980’s (and doubled-down in 2000). We have also done the control experiment....
“Life itself is a constant battle against entropy.”
– Shallow Sage (via sagequotes)
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"When Facts Aren’t Facts" →
azspot:
The criterion, according to Politifact, seems to be that a fact isn’t a fact if it helps a Democratic narrative.
Jared Bernstein watches the train wreck. Obama said:
In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.
which is just true. Period.
But Politifact rated it as only “half...
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“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The...”
– Abraham Heschel (via azspot)
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter (via aisforayla)
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