December 2010
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China's officials more accountable? →
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“The other does not exist: this is rational faith, the incurable belief of human...”
– Antonio Machado
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“In either case we hide our true selves, and sometimes deny them. I remember the...”
– Octavio Paz ~ The Labyrinth of Solitude
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“It makes no sense that the defense budget is always off limits. Why is cutting...”
– Time to cut the Defense budget? (via ryking)
Applies to the U.K just as easily
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Government possible U-turn on Booktrust funding →
Yay!
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This Government Is Against Reading →
“But the news that the government is pulling funding out of a charity dedicated to promoting reading for pleasure throughout childhood dashed my hopes. Instead, it demonstrates that we have a government that is taking the ideological step of blocking off one possible route by which all children can gain access to this way of becoming part of these ways of thinking. This, we hear, will save...
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Entertainment for Men →
A very interesting profile of Hugh Hefner from Roger Ebert.
This serves as another opportunity for me to recommend Roger Ebert’s wonderful blog, always engaging, always personal and always excellent.
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“Is it good for the world to consider women as an inferior form, as all religions...”
– Christopher Hitchens in a televised debate with Tony Blair on the topic of “Be it resolved, that religion is a force for good in the world.”
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Government to cut Booktrust →
For fuck’s sake. Stop cutting everything important and cut the bloody military spending instead. Or raise taxes. Literacy is vital.
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Drug Violence in Mexico Continues →
One of them is Ciudad Juárez, where more than 3,000 murders were committed this year alone, making it the most violent city in the world. Criminals battle each other in broad daylight in the resort town of Acapulco. In the village of Praxedis, a 20-year-old woman became police chief because no one else dared to accept the job. On a ranch in northern Mexico, a 77-year-old man shot and killed four...
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“When young, I remember clearly how my father told me why our country was so...”
– Steve Wozniak, in an open letter to the FCC on net neutrality. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and created the Apple I and Apple II series computers in the mid-1970s.
Read the full letter here.
(via theatlantic)
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“Do unto others…” is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is...”
– This paragraph captures exactly what it is about organized religion that has rubbed me the wrong way since I was a child.
A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ (via zeb)
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Tensions in Korean Peninsula Continue to Rise →
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good-dogwood:
Captain Beefheart & The Magic...
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Mercenaries, Magicians and Miserable Creatures -...
After that Couto stopped writing. Someone told him that his colleagues from the patrol had begun to disappear, and fear took hold of him, or rather tightened its grip and entered his body. He tried to retrace his steps and find familiar faces but everything had changed while he was writing. Certain strangers began to talk about his novels. One of them could have been Fonseca, but wasn’t. I...
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