February 2012
“Right now somewhere there’s a young person reminiscing about two years...”
– Twitter / @claytoncubitt
The Mardi Gras behavior press conference →
“Specifically: Don’t throw stuff back at parade floats. Don’t put ladders close enough to the street that your children will be run over if they fall. Don’t put heavy barricades onto the streets crossing over neutral grounds. Don’t ignore police when they tell you to move. Do call the police if you think a shooting is about to happen.”
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Judas goat →
“A Judas goat is a trained goat used at a slaughterhouse and in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and onto trucks. They have fallen out of use in...
"When you refuse to play games, the games tend to... →
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“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be...”
– William Blake
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Socioemotional selectivity theory →
“Socioemotional Selectivity Theory - developed by Stanford psychologist, Laura Carstensen - is a life-span theory of motivation. The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful goals and activities. According to the theory, motivational shifts also influence cognitive...
It’s Not Me, It’s You - How to End a Friendship →
“Psychologists consider it an inevitable life stage, a point where people achieve enough maturity and self-awareness to know who they are and what they want out of their remaining years, and have a degree of clarity about which friends deserve full attention and which are a drain. It is time, in other words, to shed people they collected in their youth, when they were still trying on friends...
January 2012
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Con Man and Afghan Bounty Hunter, Dies at 55 →
“Jonathan Keith Idema’s eventful life began May 30, 1956, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and ended in Mexico in a town on the Yucatan Peninsula, where he called himself Black Jack, ran a charter boat, was said to hold orgies and flew a pirate flag over his house.”
“Of wealth, there is no limit that appears to man, for those of us who have the...”
– Solon
The Kids Are Not Alright →
“We practice class warfare, and there are casualties in war,” said Rafael Guedes Augustaitiz, 27. “They compare us to barbarians, and there may be a little truth in that.”
Mr. Augustaitiz is part of a subculture that executes a form of graffiti described by one scholar as an “alphabet designed for urban invasion.” It nearly envelops some of São Paulo’s government buildings, residential...
“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is...”
– John Lennon
"Individuals all different, all wanting different... →
Diane Arbus
"Wet hair and bloody mouth laying in bed in the... →
"The brutality of biological lust tempered by the... →
"And then I pass the front door, and all these... →
"...woman so destitute her only possession was her... →
(thanks Angel!)
“For me the ultimate luxury is to be alone, to have time for myself, not look at...”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“When a genius appears in the world, you can know him by this sign: that all the...”
– Jonathan Swift
"In the days before Photoshop, this was Goude's... →
"Just as Communists managed to destroy Communism,... →
“A Pew Research Center poll in December found that only 50 percent of Americans reacted positively to the term “capitalism,” while 40 percent reacted negatively. Among Americans ages 18 to 29, more had a negative view of capitalism than a positive view, the survey found. Those young Americans actually viewed socialism more positively than capitalism. In other words, America’s grasping...
"I think this is what should be happening. The old... →
Susannah Breslin
“A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”
– Martin Luther King Jr
"There is an inherent contempt that the economic... →
