February 2011
“I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality.”
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Oh.
Snap.
“Patricia, the reason you didn’t know where I was the last 20 years is because you were strung out on crack.”
—Ladies and gentleman, one of the six African-American Senators ever.
January 2011
“Students clashed with police in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday during a day of anti-government protests. Dozens of people have been arrested and Khartoum University’s director has been sacked.”
—Next?
“Davos, in 2011, was the year when the cynics were finally proven wrong. Long derided as a sybaritic alpine gabfest, the World Economic Forum astonished the world with what it was capable of this year, deftly leveraging the talk around its chosen theme — “shared norms for the new reality” — into an effective and timely intervention in Egypt. The Forum’s slogan — “committed to improving the state of the world” — became reality, as the actions of a small and powerful few atop a distant Swiss alp managed to give shape and direction to what would otherwise have remained inchoate and dangerous demonstrations in the volatile North African hotspot.”
—Zing!
“Since 1993 Suleiman has headed the feared Egyptian general intelligence service. In that capacity, he was the C.I.A.’s point man in Egypt for renditions—the covert program in which the C.I.A. snatched terror suspects from around the world and returned them to Egypt and elsewhere for interrogation, often under brutal circumstances.”
—“A bucket of warm spit.”
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Adweek cause a stir with their article: “Who and What Is Rachel Sterne? NYC’s new chief digital officer brings accolades, but little experience to job.”
The comment section looks like Obliterati with Sklar, Soup, Caroline McCarthy, etc. as her defenders. On the other end of the…
Hey, Ezra Klein:
And yet, despite the rave reviews she gets from tech luminaries, Sterne has very little experience in management, and even less in public policy…
“The 2008 financial crisis was an “avoidable” disaster caused by widespread failures in government regulation, corporate mismanagement and heedless risk-taking by Wall Street, according to the conclusions of a Congressional inquiry.”
—Hindsight is…
“I first came to Asia in 1996, and at that time jazz equaled Kenny G for the greater part of humanity in this part of the world. In 2000, on my first gig in mainland China, I was often asked by serious Chinese classical musicians how I could improvise at great length on the piano without having any music in front of me. When I responded that I was playing jazz, the responses more or less were variations of this one theme: ‘But jazz is saxophone music!’”
—Righteous cultural imperialism.
“His dispatches — an amalgam of fact, rumor, analysis and uncorroborated reports — have been sent to military officials who, until last spring at least, found some credible enough to be used in planning strikes against militants in Afghanistan.”
—Shadow CIA.
“The jungle, existing exclusively in the present, is certainly subject to time, but remains forever ageless. Any concept of justice would be antithetical to all this. But is there justice in the desert, either? Or in the oceans? And in the depths? Life in the sea must be pure hell, an infinite hell of constant and ever-present danger, so unbearable that in the course of evolution some species — including Homo Sapiens — crawled, fled, onto some clods of firm land, the future continents.”
—Werner.
“In the domain of venture philanthropy—where donors decide what social transformation they want to engineer and then design and fund projects to implement their vision—investing in education yields great bang for the buck.”
—How Billionaires Rule Our Schools.
Captain Badass
Songs: Ohia
Oh, Jason Molina. Where did you go?
