July 2010
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Robert Reich: The Final Lesson of BP →
BP is starting over. It just named a new American president and its finances are looking up. BP’s second-quarter report showed surprisingly strong revenues of $75.9 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimates. (This includes a $32.2 billion writedown along with the $20 billion liability fund that the…
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Reader's Request Week: True Stories (1986)
ewilcox:
I was supposed to write an essay but instead I wrote some poems.
brightwalldarkroom:
THE MOST FUN YOU’LL HAVE IN THE SUBURBS
by Elizabeth Wilcox
My assignment for Reader Request week was to write about True Stories (thanks, rutabagaparsnip!)—that sardonic, musical, surreal David Byrne film featuring John Goodman and Swoosie Kurtz. What follows is not an essay, for several...
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“… the dilettantes are always right, because paintings are for looking at, and...”
– “A Dilettante’s Guide to Art”, by Morgan Meis, The Smart Set, 22 Aug 2007.
(via msodradek)
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byronic :: mad bad and dangerous to know: Irene →
“Irene è la città che si vede a sporgersi dal ciglio dell’altipiano nell’ora che le luci s’accendono e per l’aria limpida si distingue laggiú in fondo la rosa dell’abitato: dov’è piú densa di finestre, dove si dirada in viottoli appena illuminati, dove ammassa ombre di giardini, dove innalza torri…
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“Avec des certitudes, point de style.”
– Emil Cioran, French-Romanian philosopher and writer.
“With certitudes, you have no style at all.”
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goodbye USA
see you in a little over a week
(there a remains a possibility that the Tragos Corporation will hire me to report on proceedings.)
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Justice for Iran: The Evils of Islamic... →
“Three Basij members have been arrested in Tabriz for raping and killing a 26-year-old woman they arrested for bad Hejab (strands of hair sticking out of the veil). Her body was found near a cemetery. Autopsy showed she had been beaten, raped and shot 3 times in the chest. She
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Riddle me this: Iran
seaofgreen:
If extreme and brutal punishments such as stoning for adultery and cutting off the hands of thieves are used as scare tactics for the populace and crime control (Islamic explanation), then what purpose does it serve, other than sadism, to stone a woman to death in secrecy while banning all media coverage??!
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Guardian: Iran imposes media blackout over stoning... →
seaofgreen:
Newspapers, agencies and TV channels in Iran have been banned from reporting the case of a 43-year-old mother of two, Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose fate is still unclear despite an apparent “reprieve” and an international campaign launched by her children, which has been joined by politicians and celebrities from all over the world. “It’s not the first time we are banned from reporting a...
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Happy Anniversary, Santiagos
A toast to the extraordinary Peter & Khadine
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“Car s’il y a un péché contre la vie, ce n’est peut-être pas tant...”
– — Albert Camus, from his essay, “L’Été à Alger,” from the collection Noces. (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via seekingsatori)
“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable...
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the official Byronic translation challenge of the... →
Meriggiare pallido e assorto
Meriggiare pallido e assorto presso un rovente muro d’orto, ascoltare tra i pruni e gli sterpi schiocchi di merli, frusci di serpi.
Nelle crepe dei suolo o su la veccia spiar le file di rosse formiche ch’ora si rompono ed ora s’intrecciano a sommo di minuscole biche.
Osservare tra frondi il palpitare lontano di scaglie di mare mentre si levano tremuli...
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RE: *Small Victory* for Human Rights in Iran →
seaofgreen:
I agree with everyone who thinks it’s “preposterous” and “disgusting” to claim a small victory in the stoning case of the 43-yr-old Iranian woman, Sakineh Ashtiani and I appreciate all the reblogs, comments and support.
But my dear friends, you must keep things in perspective: Iran has executed 388 people (on the record) in the post-election frenzy, when the world’s attention and...
Le pene dell’inferno: Lebron in Hell (a Dante... →
Grazie Byronic!
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Mullets Are Now Officially Illegal in Iran →
seaofgreen:
In an attempt to rid the country of “decadent Western cuts”, Iran’s culture ministry has produced a catalogue of haircuts that meet government approval.
The list of banned styles includes ponytails, mullets and elaborate spikes. However,quiffs appear to be acceptable, as are fashioning one’s hair in the style of Simon Cowell or cultivating a 1980s-style floppy...
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via apsies)
The second part of this quote is too rarely quoted. (via noraleah)
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Guardian: Iranian Woman Convicted of Adultery... →
seaofgreen:
A 43-year-old Iranian woman is facing death by stoning unless an international campaign launched by her children forces the authorities to quash what her lawyer calls a bogus conviction. In a case that highlights the growing use of the death penalty in a country that has already executed more than 100 people this year, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in May 2006 of...
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“I met her on a bench, on the bank of the canal, one of the canals, for our town...”
– Samuel Beckett, “First Love” (1946), trans. SB, in The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989, Grove Press, 1995, p. 30. (via msodradek)
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