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Packing a Lot of Heat
May. 22nd, 2012 12:00 am
“Never trust or believe a man, when he tells you he loves you, don’t assume it’s true, he just wants you for sex, make sure you use him back”
-- Filthy Secrets
May. 22nd, 2012
“Never trust or believe a man, when he tells you he loves you, don’t assume it’s true, he just wants you for sex, make sure you use him back”
-- Filthy Secrets
Packing a Lot of Heat
May. 22nd, 2012 12:00 am“Never trust or believe a man, when he tells you he loves you, don’t assume it’s true, he just wants you for sex, make sure you use him back”
-- Filthy Secrets
Quote of the Day
May. 22nd, 2012 07:54 am“This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture.”
-- Robert Downey Jr.
-- Robert Downey Jr.
Quote of the Day
May. 22nd, 2012 07:54 am“This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture.”
-- Robert Downey Jr.
-- Robert Downey Jr.
Political Activism vs. Effective Politics
May. 22nd, 2012 01:23 pm[Egypt’s liberals] could organize protests and demonstrations, and act with often reckless courage to challenge the old regime. But they could not go on to rally around a single candidate, and then engage in the slow, dull, grinding work of organizing a political party that could contest an election, district by district. Political parties exist in order to institutionalize political participation; those who were best at organizing, like the Muslim Brotherhood, have walked off with most of the marbles. Facebook, it seems, produces a sharp, blinding flash in the pan, but it does not generate enough heat over an extended period to warm the house.
-- Francis Fukuyama
This is a good observation about political activism and effective politics in general. One thinks, for instance, of the failure of the Occupy movement in this country in comparison to the success of the Tea Party. It is not enough to draw a crowd and the cameras. It may be a heady experience, but it takes a good deal more to affect electoral outcomes and get laws passed.
-- Francis Fukuyama
This is a good observation about political activism and effective politics in general. One thinks, for instance, of the failure of the Occupy movement in this country in comparison to the success of the Tea Party. It is not enough to draw a crowd and the cameras. It may be a heady experience, but it takes a good deal more to affect electoral outcomes and get laws passed.
Political Activism vs. Effective Politics
May. 22nd, 2012 01:23 pm[Egypt’s liberals] could organize protests and demonstrations, and act with often reckless courage to challenge the old regime. But they could not go on to rally around a single candidate, and then engage in the slow, dull, grinding work of organizing a political party that could contest an election, district by district. Political parties exist in order to institutionalize political participation; those who were best at organizing, like the Muslim Brotherhood, have walked off with most of the marbles. Facebook, it seems, produces a sharp, blinding flash in the pan, but it does not generate enough heat over an extended period to warm the house.
-- Francis Fukuyama
This is a good observation about political activism and effective politics in general. One thinks, for instance, of the failure of the Occupy movement in this country in comparison to the success of the Tea Party. It is not enough to draw a crowd and the cameras. It may be a heady experience, but it takes a good deal more to affect electoral outcomes and get laws passed.
-- Francis Fukuyama
This is a good observation about political activism and effective politics in general. One thinks, for instance, of the failure of the Occupy movement in this country in comparison to the success of the Tea Party. It is not enough to draw a crowd and the cameras. It may be a heady experience, but it takes a good deal more to affect electoral outcomes and get laws passed.
An extended entry on the first snowfall of the season. We’ll stick around here for a while, extracting a number of smaller entries from it. First Snow, part one.
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This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. Downstairs someone just exclaimed, “Oh, look at it!” But I have been looking for quite some time now, ever since the first scatter-brained flakes began to circle down in aimless little swoops and spins. All I need to hear is sleighbells and the sound of “Silent Night” in the distance. Yes, it is like any snow, in any year, and although I have a Botany exam in two hours, I must stop a little and look. The flakes are big and loosely put together, and the blue and red rooftops are muted and secretive. Girls bicycle by in brief spurts of color and motion...
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950
_ _ _
This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. Downstairs someone just exclaimed, “Oh, look at it!” But I have been looking for quite some time now, ever since the first scatter-brained flakes began to circle down in aimless little swoops and spins. All I need to hear is sleighbells and the sound of “Silent Night” in the distance. Yes, it is like any snow, in any year, and although I have a Botany exam in two hours, I must stop a little and look. The flakes are big and loosely put together, and the blue and red rooftops are muted and secretive. Girls bicycle by in brief spurts of color and motion...
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950
An extended entry on the first snowfall of the season. We’ll stick around here for a while, extracting a number of smaller entries from it. First Snow, part one.
_ _ _
This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. Downstairs someone just exclaimed, “Oh, look at it!” But I have been looking for quite some time now, ever since the first scatter-brained flakes began to circle down in aimless little swoops and spins. All I need to hear is sleighbells and the sound of “Silent Night” in the distance. Yes, it is like any snow, in any year, and although I have a Botany exam in two hours, I must stop a little and look. The flakes are big and loosely put together, and the blue and red rooftops are muted and secretive. Girls bicycle by in brief spurts of color and motion...
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950
_ _ _
This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. Downstairs someone just exclaimed, “Oh, look at it!” But I have been looking for quite some time now, ever since the first scatter-brained flakes began to circle down in aimless little swoops and spins. All I need to hear is sleighbells and the sound of “Silent Night” in the distance. Yes, it is like any snow, in any year, and although I have a Botany exam in two hours, I must stop a little and look. The flakes are big and loosely put together, and the blue and red rooftops are muted and secretive. Girls bicycle by in brief spurts of color and motion...
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950