August 2012
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“Romney’s political ascent and presidential campaign tell the remarkable tale of...”
– Frank Bruni, NYT.
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“The “hookup” culture is not detrimental, but integral to...”
– Hanna Rosin in her forthcoming book, The End of Men.
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Mark Bittman: Celebrate the Farmer! →
To give more people access to our bounty of fresh food, we need to support real farmers, not businessmen riding half-million-dollar combines.
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“The young Indian male wants only two things: naukri and chokri.”
– Best selling Indian novelist Chetan Bhagat in his collection of essays, What Young India Wants.
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“The future has come a cropper in our day of omnipresent technology, which...”
– Peter Schjeldahl, in the New Yorker, reviewing the exhibition “Ghosts in the Machine” at the New Museum in NYC.
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Ecuador is the lone nation courageous enough to grant Julian Assange asylum.
David stands up to Goliath (Britain).
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“Christianity is the best kindergarten of communism possible.”
– Ayn Rand.
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Is it just me, or does it feel like the media has lost a zest for inventive language-use.
The weather, for instance, is reported in the same rhetoric as is the economy (and shouldn’t it be “joblessness in Greece?”:
Eurozone unemployment marched higher on Thursday as Greek joblessness reached a new record and France’s jobless rate hit the psychologically damaging 10pc...
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“For a time the past coexists simultaneously with the future, then the past goes...”
– William Gibson
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“[She was] huge as a colossus doll, mincing and whispering and simply hoping her...”
– Gloria Steinem on the sight of a diamond-obsessed showgirl Lorelei Lee, played by Marilyn Monroe in the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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I have a deep relationship with the literal taste of adrenaline. Today, it’s alternating anxiety and excitement about the impending fall term. But mainly I’m just mediating on the base flavor, on how it makes my mouth flood with saliva (you’re welcome for that delightful image), on how it links otherwise unrelated memories and plans. Not as sweet as a madeleine, but very...
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“The drug war, just like the war on terror, created jobs and budgets, and the...”
– Bill Mahr on how the American drug policy is hypocritical yet has endured.
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“[Chinese] culture prizes a pallid complexion as a traditional sign of feminine...”
– The NYTimes.
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“Don’t burn your house to smoke out a rat.”
– An Indian proverb. I believe it has a Malayali origin.
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“[…] Then in your 70s and 80s, you’ll be like an ancient historian. Your...”
– David Brooks, The Credit Illusion.
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