MLK Day

Mitt Romney says that we should discuss income inequality, if at all, only in “quiet rooms.” There was a time when people said the same thing about racial inequality. Luckily, however, there were people like Martin Luther King who refused to stay quiet. And we should follow their example today. For the fact is that rising inequality threatens to make America a different and worse place — and we need to reverse that trend to preserve both our values and our dreams.

-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times

MLK Day

Mitt Romney says that we should discuss income inequality, if at all, only in “quiet rooms.” There was a time when people said the same thing about racial inequality. Luckily, however, there were people like Martin Luther King who refused to stay quiet. And we should follow their example today. For the fact is that rising inequality threatens to make America a different and worse place — and we need to reverse that trend to preserve both our values and our dreams.

-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times

Fat Lip

A fat lip. My upper lip. No one punched me, though I suppose there are a few people who might like to. I don't know what happened. It occurred since breakfast, I think, very soon after. It's not a crisis, I don't think. It's a significant swelling, perhaps by a factor of three, but so long as it has stopped, I don't see us going to a clinic.

When I force my memory and imagination to come up with a story of what happened, the best I can come up with is that I took in some of the Irish Spring soap, when I was washing my hands and rinsing out my mouth, and that I am having an allergic reaction, but this is practically a wild guess.

For now, I am being optimistic and assuming the best, that this swelling will reverse itself, if not by day's end, then by the time I wake up tomorrow.

Fat Lip

A fat lip. My upper lip. No one punched me, though I suppose there are a few people who might like to. I don't know what happened. It occurred since breakfast, I think, very soon after. It's not a crisis, I don't think. It's a significant swelling, perhaps by a factor of three, but so long as it has stopped, I don't see us going to a clinic.

When I force my memory and imagination to come up with a story of what happened, the best I can come up with is that I took in some of the Irish Spring soap, when I was washing my hands and rinsing out my mouth, and that I am having an allergic reaction, but this is practically a wild guess.

For now, I am being optimistic and assuming the best, that this swelling will reverse itself, if not by day's end, then by the time I wake up tomorrow.

Sylvia

The second installment of Sylvia's date with Emile.

_ _ _

We walked into the bar and sat down, two by two. E. and I had the initial strangeness to rub off. We began to talk - about the funeral he went to this morning, about his twenty year old cousin who broke his back and is paralyzed for life, about his sister who died of pneumonia at twelve years. "Good lord, we're morbid tonight," he shuddered. And then, "You know something I've always liked ... I mean wanted to like? Dark eyes and blonde hair." So we talked about little things, how words lose their meaning when you repeat them over and over; how all people of the Negro race look alike until you get to know them individually; how we always liked the age we were at best.

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

Sylvia

The second installment of Sylvia's date with Emile.

_ _ _

We walked into the bar and sat down, two by two. E. and I had the initial strangeness to rub off. We began to talk - about the funeral he went to this morning, about his twenty year old cousin who broke his back and is paralyzed for life, about his sister who died of pneumonia at twelve years. "Good lord, we're morbid tonight," he shuddered. And then, "You know something I've always liked ... I mean wanted to like? Dark eyes and blonde hair." So we talked about little things, how words lose their meaning when you repeat them over and over; how all people of the Negro race look alike until you get to know them individually; how we always liked the age we were at best.

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

Christian Cool: Beliebers and Tebowing

Jesus walks. Justin Bieber was spotted on the beach in Los Angeles rocking board shorts and some major ink. The Biebs has always been vocal about his faith but now he's wearing it on his sleeve -- or rather his calf. The "Mistletoe" singer was recently tatted with a large visage of Jesus on his left calf.

Bieber also has the name "Jesus" tattooed on his torso but his new ink is certainly a more visible ode to his religion.

-- Huffington Post

Below is another article that expands on the theme of how Christianity is being made cool by celebrities like Bieber and Tim Tebow.

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Christian Cool: Beliebers and Tebowing

Jesus walks. Justin Bieber was spotted on the beach in Los Angeles rocking board shorts and some major ink. The Biebs has always been vocal about his faith but now he's wearing it on his sleeve -- or rather his calf. The "Mistletoe" singer was recently tatted with a large visage of Jesus on his left calf.

Bieber also has the name "Jesus" tattooed on his torso but his new ink is certainly a more visible ode to his religion.

-- Huffington Post

Below is another article that expands on the theme of how Christianity is being made cool by celebrities like Bieber and Tim Tebow.

( Read more... )

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