Sport of Kings

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nevver: Moore, Oklahoma

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nevver:

Moore, Oklahoma

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jtotheizzoe: Sound Meets Space There’s no sound in space, but...

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jtotheizzoe:

Sound Meets Space

There’s no sound in space, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make sound inspired by space. The story of Joy Division’s iconic Unknown Pleasures cover, data from the first pulsar ever recorded: CP 1919.

3eanuts: March 2, 1970 — see The Complete Peanuts 1967-1970

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3eanuts:

March 2, 1970 — see The Complete Peanuts 1967-1970

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week."

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:25:52 -0500

““Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.””

- WILLIAM DEMENT, Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1959 (via chica-chan)

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doubleghost: This is me dancing my heart out while my kids...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:06:59 -0500

doubleghost:

This is me dancing my heart out while my kids ignore me and watch TV.

"I can’t count the number of times that I have picked up the newspaper at a time of crisis and..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:01:03 -0500

“I can’t count the number of times that I have picked up the newspaper at a time of crisis and found whole swaths of the front page given over either to the already known result of some other dull game or to the moral or criminal depredations of some overpaid steroid swallower. Listen: the paper has a whole separate section devoted to people who want to degrade the act of reading by staring enthusiastically at the outcomes of sporting events that occurred the previous day. These avid consumers also have tons of dedicated channels and publications that are lovingly contoured to their special needs. All I ask is that they keep out of the grown-up parts of the paper.”

- Christopher Hitchens

Think Progress: 12 Facts From 2012

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:51:22 -0500

Think Progress: 12 Facts From 2012:

think-progress:

Last time North Carolina amended their constitution on marriage it was to ban interracial marriage.

Women perform 66% of the world’s work, produce 50% of the food, earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property.

It’s easier for Americans to access guns than mental health…

"Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries; in every other country, the gun laws have..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:14:57 -0500

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Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries; in every other country, the gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic knowledge of its citizens afterward. In every other country, gun massacres have subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most often of children, happen with hideous regularity, and they happen with hideous regularity because guns are hideously and regularly available.

The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. They have made a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns is, placed in the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, of supreme value. Whatever satisfaction gun owners take from their guns—we know for certain that there is no prudential value in them—is more important than children’s lives. Give them credit: life is making moral choices, and that’s a moral choice, clearly made.

All of that is a truth, plain and simple, and recognized throughout the world. At some point, this truth may become so bloody obvious that we will know it, too. Meanwhile, congratulate yourself on living in the child-gun-massacre capital of the known universe.

”

- Adam Gopnik (via theatlantic)

"Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:14:03 -0500

“Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action.”

- Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via theatlantic)

"The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the..."

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:57:47 -0500

“The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available are complicit in the murder of those children. They have made a clear moral choice: that the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value.”

- Adam Gopnik

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/newtown-and-the-madness-of-guns.html#ixzz2F4dajeSw

Flannery O’Connor, Peacock

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Flannery O’Connor, Peacock

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space....

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:51:25 -0500

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

"Sir Alan Budd, one of the chief architects of Thatcher’s policies, gave an extraordinarily..."

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:29:16 -0500

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Sir Alan Budd, one of the chief architects of Thatcher’s policies, gave an extraordinarily honest - and revealing interview.

He says that he worried that he and his ideas had been ruthlessly used. That what he calls the “capitalist class” had simply seen in the ideas a way to engineer a crisis of capitalism that led to mass unemployment.

As a result of that unemployment unions were smashed, wages forced down - and the capitalist class managed to make high profits again.

And instead of giving the workers higher wages - the bankers lent them money. Simple really.

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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/09/the_curse_of_tina.html