September 2008
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“In Trilling’s celebrated statement: “To the carrying out of the job of...”
– Louis Menand, ”REGRETS ONLY, Lionel Trilling and his discontents”, The New Yorker, September 29, 2008, p. 83
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September Madness →
Funny or horrifying?
Any college basketball fans who’ve been watching the bank failures and consolidations recently will understand and appreciate this September Madness chart.
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Rhino Poachers walk free. →
Downright disgusting.
A breakdown in law enforcement against rhino poaching and horn smuggling in Zimbabwe is threatening the success of more than a decade’s work bringing rhino populations back up to healthy levels.
Via WWF
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Visualizing Consumer Waste: West Coast Green 2008 →
One can’t even begin to feel the impact we have on our environment. This provided me with a moment of sober reflection, but our habits and lifestyle may be stronger than the will to reëvaluate that is needed.
Chris Jordan knows that we can’t begin to tackle the amount of waste we create because we can’t begin to wrap our heads around the numbers. We can’t begin to wrap our...
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Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist... →
More on Sarah Palin’s fundamentalist beliefs.
An excerpt:
Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of...
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“During the debate, Jim Lehrer repeatedly called upon both candidates to speak...”
– Roger Ebert’s comment on McCain’s debate behavior
Guess who’s not coming to dinner :: rogerebert.com :: News & comment
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“I am worried by thoughts of a war oftener than by thoughts of my own death, yet...”
– E.M. Forster, “Liberty in England”, London Mercury, 32 August 1935, 331.
From an address at the Congrès International des Ecrivains at Paris, June 21, 1935
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“For him [Fondane] true poetry has no relation with the Idea, it springs from the...”
– From: G. T. Clapton, review of Baudelaire et l’expérience du gouffre, by Benjamin Fondane, French Studies, January 4, 1950 pp. 60-61
August 2008
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