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Former Justice On Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling – Justice Stevens Would Like A Word – Esquire
As the House of Representatives tries to pretend that its whistle-brained conservative majority cares enough about the Voting Rights Act to do anything except resist the temptation to dance on its grave, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — who, thank the Lord, is not taking retirement seriously —…
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Getting Lucky with Grover and the Sesame Street Gang
Grover, Ernie, and the Sesame Street muppets Get Lucky with some Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams.
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Daodejing 5
#5* Heaven and earth have no mercy, treating the 10,000 things as straw dogs; the Sage has no mercy, treating people as straw dogs. [1] The space between Heaven and earth Just like a bellows! Empty but never Exhausted; work it And some more comes out. More words speed up failure,…
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Maybe There is Something Wrong with our Notion of Paradise
Slavoj Žižek, one of the more public philosophers of our day, considers the difference between revolution and reformation. On which cusp do we find ourselves today? He identifies two traps that must be avoided in order to answer the question and possibly effect some change: false radicalism and false gradualism.…
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“Sometimes, you have to take a leap of faith first. The trust part comes later.”
Originally posted on Video Ut Intellectum: Man of Steel (Snyder, 2013) has a lot in common with Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005). Not only were they both written by David Goyer and Christopher Nolan, and not only do they both tell the origin story of a superhero, culminating in a final scene…
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Thomas Gainsborough | WikiPaintings.org
Born in rural Suffolk, the largely self-taught [Thomas] Gainsborough established his reputation as a society portraitist at Bath, a popular resort, before moving to London in 1774. Despite his urban success, he never lost his love of the countryside and coastline, lamenting, “I’m sick of portraits and wish very much…
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BBC Documentary on Photographer William Klein | Petapixel
William Klein is a pioneer several times over. For that reason, the documentary has been titled The Many Lives of William Klein. He’s been called one of the fathers of street photography. His fashion photography is considered among the most influential and striking of the 20th century. And as if…
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World’s Biggest Virus May Have Ancient Roots | NPR
Researchers have discovered the largest virus ever, and they’ve given it a terrifying name: Pandoravirus. In mythology, opening Pandora’s Box released evil into the world. But there’s no need to panic. This new family of virus lives underwater and doesn’t pose a major threat to human health… via World’s Biggest…
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Love the One You’re With (1974) | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
CSNY would open every 1974 show with this tune… Related articles Crosby, Stills and Nash Best Hits – A Best Collection (affewi8b.wordpress.com) David Crosby Dreaming Of One More Csny Tour (contactmusic.com) Graham Nash Goes Solo (myq105.cbslocal.com) Wild Tales by Graham Nash (werd.com) Csn – Long Time Gone But Still Fresh…
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15 Fishy Pictures | photographyblogger.net
Fish come in so many sizes, shapes, and colors. It’s amazing to think about all the incredible and unique species of fish there are! Whether in an aquarium or under the deep blue sea, their beauty remains the same. via 15 Fishy Pictures. A few of them:
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Beneath the Surface
What shows forth only Hints at what hides there beneath. Let not the flower Hide the root, nor allow root To cover the ground. Neither Permit ground to conceal Dào— How strange that would be. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Zetetics
Doing some research on the notion of zetetic only to find my dear friend Pete A. Y. Gunter quoted by this gentleman. I had forgotten about this term zetetics. As I move more and more back to philosophizing through dialog with youth, it might start popping up a bit more around here. The…
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More reactionism to “impropriety”. On
More reactionism to “impropriety”. On the Cover of the Rolling Stone | Reason & Existenz http://ow.ly/n9hj5
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Public Art, Private Expression | Advocate.com
The history of authors and artists who are attracted to others of the same gender is long though still not very well known by many. I make the rather clunky “attracted to others of the same gender” because a) homosexual originally is a clinical term, and i refuse to propagate…
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On the Cover of the Rolling Stone | Dr. Hook
What the hell… as i was reminded of this song, which was a favorite of mine in the mid-70’s.
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On the Cover of the Rolling Stone
This thing with the cover of the Rolling Stone is more in the vein of the Society of Propriety notions that I dealt with the other day. I was mostly going to avoid the topic, then I was popping around Facebook… it is all over the place. Even Channing Tatum…
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