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Now you’re just trying to turn me on.
January 2012
Some days I feel as if I've been holding my breath for years.
mar-see-ah gets it.
“The ceremony continued with the calm but ecstatic guests singing “Lean on Me,” laughing at children blowing bubbles and enjoying a neighborhood potluck with a vegan cake.”
Jack White’s debut solo album, Blunderbuss, is out April 24. Listen to the first single here.
I’m confused. Did he steal this idea from Portlandia, or was it the other way around? Or are they all just really into obscure firearms?
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Brazilian Logos
Most of the four million slaves shipped from Africa to Brazil were sold in Salvador, the first residence of Portugal’s colonial rulers. It’s still Brazil’s blackest city. In Ribeiro’s neighborhood, children play football or do capoeira, pray in Pentecostal Churches or worship African gods. Many are involved with drugs; “every year we lose students to crack,” she tells me. And they study philosophy two hours each week because of a 2008 law that mandates philosophy instruction in all Brazilian high schools. Nine million teenagers now take philosophy classes for three years.
“But seeing things as they really are isn’t enough,” Ribeiro insists. As in Plato’s parable inThe Republic, the students must go back to the cave and apply what they’ve learned. Their lives give them rich opportunities for such application. The contrast between the new luxury hotels along the beach and Itapuã’s overcrowded streets gives rise to questions about equality and justice. Children kicking around a can introduce a discussion about democracy: football is one of the few truly democratic practices here; success depends on merit, not class privilege. Moving between philosophy and practice, the students can revise their views in light of what Plato, Hobbes, or Locke had to say about equality, justice, and democracy and discuss their own roles as political agents.
In Time
The Revolution & Rich File
The Revolution & Rich File - In Time
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World Clique
Deee-Lite
We don’t need a clique to make our clock tick.
I cannot emphasize how much fun OhRohin and Aatombomb are. I also cannot emphasize how painful it is when your brain insists on squeezing out your ears. The headhole is not big enough.
Also Tyler Coates looks like the super cute gay dude from Modern Family. And I couldn’t stop expecting Sofia Vergara to pop around the corner. (didn’t happen. Sad.)
I always go the other way with that and think “Tyler Coates!” when I’m watching Modern Family. I guess I should expect Krucoff to walk on set during an episode.
Ammo rules, I’m very lucky to have finally met her, even though she, ahem, left a bit early.
Lützenkirchen - Last Night In Vegas (Schossow & Sagstad Mix)
Sander Kleinenberg
Last Night In Vegas (Schossow & Sagstad Mix) - Lützenkirchen
Kelsey Grammer on 30 Rock is the best part of 2012 so far
Men who have been married more than once who want to make this argument should be forced to say “one man and one woman AT A TIME.”
They should also just shut their damn pieholes, probably.
“It’s pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it’s a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization.”
—Newt!
When Obama gets re-elected, he should set up a U.S. Lunar Base Exploratory Committee and appoint Gingrich to head it. Then put him in Branson’s SpaceShipTwo and send him to the moon.
I can’t believe how much I agree with Ron Paul about so many things. It’s a shame he’s crazy.
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
—Arthur C. Clarke (via kapi)
I didn't think we would top Bachmann on the GOP crazy tip this cycle
But supporting Newt as an “anti-establishment” candidate trumps Bachmann and Palin combined, hands down.
You might be in Upperville, VA if you spot a boutique called Mason Vixen.
“[L]et us reclaim the lives of those drug offenders who have not committed a violent crime. By investing time and money in drug treatment – in an in-house, secure facility – rather than putting them in prison. Experience has shown that treating non-violent drug offenders is two-thirds less expensive than housing them in prison. And more importantly – as long as they have not violently victimized society – everyone deserves a second chance, because no life is disposable. I am not satisfied to have this as merely a pilot project; I am calling for a transformation of the way we deal with drug abuse and incarceration in every corner of New Jersey.”
—Chris Christie
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