January 2010
INXS - ‘Don’t Change’ 1982...
December 2009
WatchVolkan Ergen, ‘Making Love’
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"Yf they say the mone is belewe / We must believe... →
Fuck off, cell phones. Fuck off, texting and... →
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A thought experiment on the human cost of Security...
I’m not a mathematician, but here goes:
Richard Reid, aka the “Shoe Bomber” death toll: 0 Average number of airline passengers in the United States annually: 660 million, or 5.28 billion since Richard Reid lit his shoe on fire in December of 2001, resulting in the TSA rule that passengers take off shoes in security lines at airports. Assuming an average amount of (dead) time of...
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“I’ve always been crazy but it’s kept me from going insane.”
– Waylon Jennings
"Only two things have made flying safer [since... →
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"There is a American kid in Afghanistan who is... →
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Also: 96% of the Internet posts art on their... →
(Via Fette)
On Fashion
“Fashion is an extension of dressing. It’s a very important social factor. It amuses me that fashion and fashion photography are treated so poorly intellectually. Cultural intellectuals tend to feel they’re not qualified to discuss fashion photography, or that it’s a waste of time. I even get correspondence across the forums at SHOWstudio from people who think fashion is...
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There Are No Poor White People
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“The charitable interpretation rest on the invisibility of white suffering… It rests on the notion that the white poor are not merely the white poor, but white trash. It’s a formula that straps the anchor of stereotyped black America, to much larger population of white Americans and then drops them in the Mississippi. It’s a con that asks large swaths of white folks to...
Two Things
The Presets, ‘If I Know You’ 2009 vs Rod Stewart, ‘Young Turks’ 1981
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"It's something of a cliché that the past is... →
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Senator Sanders on Health Care →
“A Medicare-for-all program is the way to go. I know it is not going to pass today. I know we do not have the votes. I know the insurance company and the drug lobbyists will fight us to the death. But, mark my words, Madam President, the day will come when this country will do the right thing. On that day, we will pass a Medicare-for-all single-payer system.”
