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“when a movie that everyone agrees is pre-sold falls on its face, the dullness of...”
– The Day the Movies Died: Movies + TV: GQ
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Interview: Texas keeps working for Joel and Ethan... →
TRUE GRIT WAS ROBBED
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Triangle Fire Focus of Tonight's 'American...
Why, this is very timely. [Triangle Fire Preview | American Experience | PBS Video]
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Sady Doyle - With Much Love to Lovely Friends Who... →
when we say “she seems too perfect,” well, really that’s just anger at the fact that WE are subjected to these unholy, impossible standards. I don’t think it’s the women themselves that are the problem. And I bet they’re notably imperfect too. Maybe Natalie Portman throws stuff when she gets into arguments. Maybe she’s a real asshole if she skips a meal. Maybe she has terrible taste in TV; maybe...
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“It’s such a her and him thing. She spent the evening trying hard to really...”
– TV review: At Oscars, the kids were all right and the ‘Speech’ was well-prepared. Poor Anne Hathaway. Can we please team her up with Neil Patrick Harris next time?
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‘Volcano of Rage’ by Max Rodenbeck | The New York... →
Despite wide variations in the nominal forms of government in all these countries, as well as contrasting levels of wealth and education and urbanization, the pattern and shape of the unrest, and the grievances that provoked it, looked everywhere much the same. Arab rulers had grown too isolated, too inflated with pretense and hypocrisy, and too complacently confident in the power of their...
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“In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again...”
– Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan (via shaneguiter)
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“The funny thing about [Cruel to Be Kind] is that it’s a really good little...”
– Nick Lowe Talks LABOUR OF LUST. So glad I got to attend the Nick Lowe ACL taping a couple years back.
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More Tips for Kicking Ass Before Yours Gets... →
MoJo’s reporting has really been kicking ass lately.
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Hellen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
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“Such a sad expression, ‘Cheer up.’ Not only did it concede the...”
– Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question.
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Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on... →
“My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave,” says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. “I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a...
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'The Help' Spawns A Lawsuit And A Question: How... →
If the book wasn’t such a hit, would the lawsuit be happening? I have to wonder (not that I think the lawsuit may not be valid).
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“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree...”
– May Sarton (1912-1995), from my QotD calendar.
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“Dear friend. We received your kind letter in which you condemned the American...”
– Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to a group of second-graders in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Students wrote the dictator in 1986 to ask him to stop bombing the U.S., and he replied.
(via minnpost)
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Geez
NPR talking about gender quotas in European businesses … with a dude from The Economist. Could they seriously not find a female “expert” to talk to about it?
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Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden | Media... →
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team confirmed. If this is unsuccessful, he will be extradited to Sweden in 10 days.
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always-fair-weather:
Doris Day | “Pillow Talk”
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Indiana deputy attorney general fired after... →
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“He was both sorry and not sorry to be alive, for in the rushing air he could...”
– Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case.
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Is February "women-hating" month? →
motherjones:
A Georgia bill would outlaw ALL abortion and any action that could possibly cause miscarriage.
BANANAS.
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“In other words, “Community” isn’t a show that is written without the writers’...”
– Boob Tube Dude » Checking in on…”Community”. THIS.
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“Doctors were billing Medicare $130 a week to visit my mom. I went to the nursing...”
– NewsHour Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reflects on her mother’s care in the Medicare system. (via newshour) RIDICULOUS.
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