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• COMMONPLACE

  
  Brain Release Valve — Authority: 120
  Secretive liberal cult uses several charities for a front. Cult draws people in, convincing them to do terrible things in the name of fomenting a populist revolution. Cult is really a front for a right wing agenda trying to discredit the left. Also works conversely as right to left. Might even be funnier that way. ...
  10 hours ago

• Eight Words

  
  Melissa Wiley — Authority: 526
  An SS noncommissioned officer came to meet us, a truncheon in his hand. He gave the order: “Men to the left! Women to the right!” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words. Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother. I had not had time to think, but already I ...
  6 days ago

• Personal Finance Quote

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 448
  Personal Finance is really about learning how to live your life, figuring out what you really cherish and value, then putting your money behind those goals and beliefs. The New Frugality, by Chris Farrell, page 4 Im received a free review copy through Library Thing, and it looks interesting so far.
  6 days ago

• “Common Presence” (Rene Char)

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 121
  This little gem turned up in John Ladd’s Paradise Tossed blog (which I highly recommend) and I have to agree with John that it is stunning: “Common Presence” You’re in a rush to write As if you were late for life If that’s how it is provide company to your sources Hurry Hurry ...
  1 week ago

• Sex Tapes Of The Past Decade: A Look At The Noughties’ Naughtiest

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 165
  Ah, the sex tape. Remember when it was a huge deal when Pam Anderson & Tommy Lee’s sex tape came out in the late 90s? They are commonplace now, with everyone from Kim Kardashian to Jamie Foxx to Verne “Mini Me” Troyer doing it on film for the world to see. Excerpt from: Sex Tapes Of The Past Decade: A ...
  1 week ago

• Does evolutionary psychology make it hard to understand "culture"?

  
  Jaltcoh — Authority: 469
  Ive been reading Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters over my Christmas vacation. Its similar to Robert Wrights The Moral Animal in that it popularizes evolutionary psychology . But the authors (Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa) update Wrights 1994 book by using more recent research to answer a slew of ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Thought

  
  CM, Children and Lots of Grace — Authority: 433
  The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (What else could we apply this to?)
  2 weeks ago

• Commonplace Book (12/16/09)

  
  Rough Draft — Authority: 118
  Favorite quotations from todays reading. "...that absorbed and inward look that only comes with whipped cream." Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden-Party" "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thoreau on Virtue & Vice

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 121
  [ CC licensed image by DerrickT ] “I was never so rapid in my virtue but that my vice kept up with me. We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.” –Henry David Thoreau
  3 weeks ago

• James on Christie

  
  Bearcastle Blog — Authority: 121
  From her new book, Talking About Detective Fiction , P.D. James is quoted in the New York Times * saying, of the overrated Agatha Christie: Perhaps her greatest strength was that she never overstepped the limits of her talent. ———- * Janet Maslin, " Mysteries of Crime Fiction? P. D. James Is on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• COMMONPLACE

  
  Brain Release Valve — Authority: 120
  This one came to me in a dream last night. Aliens arrive on Earth, open “ambassadorships” which are basically schools where the aliens teach their philosophy of universal peace and understanding. At the final level of training, then turn an ecophage on the person, rendering them into the ubiquitous gray goo that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Staying Creative

  
  Bearcastle Blog — Authority: 121
  Thanks, Im pretty sure, to Alex Ross (" Unquiet Thoughts ", his blog), I read what I found an interesting piece by composer Anne Gosfield (" The Score: Advice to Young Composers ", New York Times, 5 December 2009). She said in her introduction that, via an email interview, she was surprised by the question "Any ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Unity of Macbeth

  
  CM, Children and Lots of Grace — Authority: 433
  And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s In deepest consequence. --Banquo, from "The Tragedy of Macbeth", Act I, Scene iii
  3 weeks ago

• We Are (to some extent) What We Choose to Do

  
  Flos Carmeli — Authority: 106
  From Present Moment, Wonderful Moment Thich Nhat Hanh Sometimes when we are on the computer, it is as if we have turned off our mind and are absorbed into the computer for hours. Mind is consciousness. The two aspects of consciousness, subject and object, depend on each other in order to exist. When our ...
  3 weeks ago

• Craig Ferguson – Craig’s Monologue, Part 1 – 12/8/09

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  12/8/09
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• Craig Ferguson – Craig’s Monologue, Part 2 – 12/8/09

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  12/8/09
  3 weeks ago

• Bovine Intervention at Buttercup Farm

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  Miracles have been common place recently across the country with religious figures and relics appearing in all sorts of places. This time, what looks to be a cross has formed in the markings of this "holy" cow. CBS News affiliate WFSB reports from Sterling, CT
  3 weeks ago

• COMMONPLACE

  
  Brain Release Valve — Authority: 120
  The civilized world has ended because of some super-plague. Maybe half a percent of the population survives. Thirty million people, spread across the entire world. Most of them in isolated, non-urban places. The human race will most likely survive, but there is going to be a lot of wandering about in the meantime. It ...
  4 weeks ago

• Voting on Civil Rights

  
  Bearcastle Blog — Authority: 121
  Some will argue that we [in New Jersey] need a referendum on the issue, as if the legal rights of a minority should be subject to approval by the majority. A historical note: When the Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage, 73 percent of American were opposed to mixed marriage, according to a ...
  4 weeks ago

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