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"nothing has ever been this true."

Feb 9, 2010 11:32am

the rolling stones, rice krispies jingle. (and a slamming jingle at that.) who knew?

Feb 3, 2010 8:15pm
NASA’s calling it a comet but admit the “filamentary appearance is different from anything seen in normal comets.
i only took “PH151: Intro to the Universe,” but it sure looks like a spaceship to me.

NASA’s calling it a comet but admit the “filamentary appearance is different from anything seen in normal comets.

i only took “PH151: Intro to the Universe,” but it sure looks like a spaceship to me.

Feb 3, 2010 1:19pm
Jan 28, 2010 8:29am
cajunboy:

Look, I know that both parties do this ridiculous staging shit, but this just creeps me the fuck out the more I stare at it.

cajunboy:

Look, I know that both parties do this ridiculous staging shit, but this just creeps me the fuck out the more I stare at it.

Jan 27, 2010 12:56pm

Treme

just walked around this neighborhood a couple weeks ago (heading to Willie Mae’s Scotch House for my favorite meal in all of new orleans) and it’s still pretty beat up. folks down there are pumped for this show, though. me too.

Jan 26, 2010 10:02pm
Jan 22, 2010 1:48pm
tough juxtaposition on the Times science page today.

tough juxtaposition on the Times science page today.

Jan 21, 2010 12:34pm
A lie travels halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots. -

- Mark Twain, 1855*

* that’s before the internet!

Jan 21, 2010 10:24am
Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, December 2009

Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, December 2009

Jan 15, 2010 4:10pm
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth—that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ‘In spite of all!’ has the calling for politics. - Weber - Politics as a Vocation
Jan 14, 2010 8:51am
Jan 12, 2010 5:02pm

Maya Lin - Unchopping a Tree

nice vid. part of her new What Is Missing project that debuted in CPH.

Jan 8, 2010 4:27pm

“like a cat, like a puma, like a leopard.”

color me excited for the Adrian Beltre era. (only took me 8 minutes and 53 seconds of defensive highlights to come around.) to my mind, there’s nothing better in baseball than a master of the hot corner. and this dude’s the second coming of Brooks Robinson (or Ray Dandridge). anything at all we get from him on offense is straight gravy.

Jan 8, 2010 1:18pm
We are really fucked. Life is still really good. - Beyond Hope | Derrick Jensen | Orion Magazine
Jan 7, 2010 2:39pm
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