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"Hundreds of thousands of Americans have endured tours of duty in Iraq. They are returning home with a new word on their lips. It will have an impact on the American Experiment,
inshallah."
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at 3:51 PM on December 7, 2007
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"Trotsky lived on after Stalin, and to some extent is still alive today, not because young people want the world he wanted: a phantasm that not even he could define. What they want is
to be him."
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at 8:21 PM on November 11, 2007
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On the internet, nobody knows the G-strings aren't yours. Or how murderously they infatuate. Or whom they're
infatuating.
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at 10:21 AM on August 23, 2007
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"You are the first person to sit right next to me."
What does that tell you? "That you're smart."
Marilyn Manson isn't doing industrial howls anymore, but still has all the melancholy you could ask for. Fun interview by Polly Vernon.
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at 8:30 AM on June 12, 2007
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Environmentalism, globalization and national economies, 1980-2000 [
Schofer and
Granados in
Social Forces, Dec 06] Triple-punch! (1) "We find no impact of environmentalism on foreign investment and trade. Firms and investment do not appear to be fleeing countries with strong environmental standards." (2) "While it is common to assume that environmentalism targets industry, the agricultural sector may be [negatively] affected more significantly." (2) "[S]ociologists influenced by world-system theory [posit that] the relationship between environmentalism and growth could be spurious: environmentalism does not cause growth, but rather coincides with the economic success of core nations. However, broader results do not support this."
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at 11:36 AM on May 19, 2007
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Libya is a desert, yes, but if you trace your fingers through the moonlit sand and listen, carefully, you may hear ancient whispers: of
Apollo's love of Cyrene; of prehistoric hunters making Rock Art [
1,
2,
3], back when the Sahara was wet; of Phoenicians subdued by Greeks, of Romans followed by Byzantines, all leaving
ruins that Libya is famous for [
Cyrene,
Leptis Magna,
Sabratha,
et cetera]; of desert soldiers in World War II, remembered in
Graves and
Memorials; of the occupying Italians, who responded to
Omar Mukhtar's resistance of the Fascists by rounding Libyans into
concentration camps; of the camps' prisoners, one of whom wrote this
famous poem: "My only illness is the torturing of our young women, with their bodies exposed ... how my speech has become subdued, the humiliation of our noble and leading men and the loss of my gazelle-like horse..."; of
more culture, more
memories from this land that witnessed the wrenching passion of all man's history—whispering in the very dust that made his soul.
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at 8:52 AM on May 14, 2007
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The Hostile New Age Takeover of Yoga
[
print version]. Standard "omg commoditization" rant, but has a delectable anecdote wherein someone mistakes clingy navel-gazing for reflection. ("What part of
no don't you understand?" his note said. "I never want to hear from you again.")
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at 11:11 PM on April 6, 2007
(103 comments)
Hummer Ad
strikes all the wrong notes. Tofu-eater feels insecure upon seeing an unrepentant meat-muncher, goes buys a Hummer to 'Restore the balance' (previous tagline: 'Restore your manhood'.) Somehow the ad agency forgot that you're supposed to get the message of "Feeling Down on Yourself? Buy Our Product, Show it Off, You'll Feel Better!" across
subtly, not explicitly.
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at 3:13 PM on August 15, 2006
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Rhapsody Distributes Their Music.
So you're a blogger mentioning a song and wondering whether to link to iTunes or the Amazon album page? Link to Rhapsody: U.S. based listeners get to listen to 25 whole songs for free (per month).
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at 5:52 PM on April 13, 2006
(35 comments)
The Year in Culture:
a different kind of 2005 roundup—influentials are asked to mention significant cultural points of the year. Hitchens on intelligent design ruling: "Just for once…one can hear the lucid tones of reason, detachment, culture, and irony"; Gladwell on the Streets: "the British take an African-American musical form and wonderfully reinvent it" (again); others muse about rare high points in South Park, or of Brokeback Mountain and the future of movies, or the Rove-esqueness of Cindy Sheehan, et cetera.
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 10:05 AM on January 7, 2006
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