July 2012
June 2012
You gots to chill →
Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes...
Isn’t the first time I just made last call. #thatsecuritylinewasinsane
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Remembering Nora Ephron , who passed away last night at the age of 71, with her most timeless words on women, love, happiness, reading, life, and death (via explore-blog)
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Cory Booker for President →
I asked Cory Booker, the Newark mayor, why he ignored his security team and made a snap decision to run into a burning house to save his neighbor. He said his parents taught him to feel indebted to all the people who had sacrificed for his family. And he recoiled in law school at the idea that there was not always a legal obligation to help the vulnerable.
“We have to fight the dangerous streams...
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Michigan Dems To Recite ‘Vagina Monologues’... →
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What it will mean if the Supreme Court overturns... →
motherjones:
Kevin Drum breaks it down.
This is, needless to say, a powerfully depressing analysis. For all practical purposes, Kerr is agreeing that conservative judges don’t even bother pretending to be neutral anymore. They listen to Fox News, and if something becomes a conservative talking point then they’re on board. And that goes all the way up to the Supreme Court.
If the...
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U.S. to Stop Deporting Some Illegal Immigrants →
Hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants who came to the country as children will be able to obtain work permits and will not face deportation under a new policy that is effective immediately, the Obama administration said.
Putin’s Return Brings Rapid Chill to U.S.-Russia... →
Gone is Dmitri A. Medvedev, the optimistic president who collaborated with Mr. Obama and celebrated their partnership in March. In his place is Vladimir V. Putin, the grim former K.G.B. colonel whose return to the Kremlin has ushered in a frostier relationship freighted by an impasse over Syria and complicated by fractious domestic politics in both countries.
The back-and-forth this week over...
“I will be very honest with you. I mean, when my daughter was young, my husband...”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when asked if women can have children and careers (via apsies)
Yes. I love Hilary. 