THE NEW YORK TIMES: Consumer Spending Without Consumer Confidence
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
"Do You..."
A Moment of Clarity.
WORDS.
"...The gay part will now define him, in the public eye, more than any other. It will be the prompt for the loudest cheers he basks in and the nastiest jeers he sloughs off.
But in the opening paragraph, it comes after his age and occupation and race, getting no more space, in that one passage and for that brief moment, than other aspects of his identity. It’s a detail among many, but not the defining one.
That’s the integrated way that things should be, the unremarkable way a person’s sexual orientation ought to be lived and perceived. And that’s precisely what Collins and his fellow trailblazers are trying to move us toward: not a constant discussion of the rightful place and treatment of L.G.B.T. people in America, but an America in which the discussion is no longer necessary. He’s letting us focus on his gayness precisely so we can focus less on others’ down the road..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Basketball’s Gay Paragon
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XXFACTOR: Jason Collins’ Awkward Coming Out
"...The gay part will now define him, in the public eye, more than any other. It will be the prompt for the loudest cheers he basks in and the nastiest jeers he sloughs off.
But in the opening paragraph, it comes after his age and occupation and race, getting no more space, in that one passage and for that brief moment, than other aspects of his identity. It’s a detail among many, but not the defining one.
That’s the integrated way that things should be, the unremarkable way a person’s sexual orientation ought to be lived and perceived. And that’s precisely what Collins and his fellow trailblazers are trying to move us toward: not a constant discussion of the rightful place and treatment of L.G.B.T. people in America, but an America in which the discussion is no longer necessary. He’s letting us focus on his gayness precisely so we can focus less on others’ down the road..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Basketball’s Gay Paragon
SEE ALSO:
XXFACTOR: Jason Collins’ Awkward Coming Out
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
One Pure Thought.
From Thomas Gibbons-Neff (25), a sergeant in the Marines who served as a rifleman in the 1st battalion, 6th Marines in Afghanistan in 2008 and 2010.
THE WASHINGTON POST: I could justify fighting in Afghanistan — until the Boston bombing
THE WASHINGTON POST: I could justify fighting in Afghanistan — until the Boston bombing
Friday, April 26, 2013
Oh Word?
"It's only been 10 yrs? 500,000 updates though..."
ROLLING STONE: iTunes' 10th Anniversary: How Steve Jobs Turned the Industry Upside Down
Thursday, April 25, 2013
RUSH.
A Moment of Clarity...
WORDS.
"...I’d acknowledge that none of us can get through the day without making a lot of assumptions. All of us have intellectual, ideological and moral commitments that we bring to bear upon what we think about almost everything.
But the hyperpolarization of our moment has sped up the rush to (contradictory) judgments, a practice further accelerated by new technologies. We have less patience than ever with the oftenpainstaking task of gathering facts. We are better informed yet seem more efficient than ever in manufacturing conspiracy theories.
I mistrust moralistic nostalgia for some nonexistent golden age of reason, and I have contentedly joined the bracing new-media world. The past had problems of its own.
Still, I’d insist that “crowdsourcing” is quite different from reasoning together, an art we seem to have forgotten. And at the risk of disrupting the productivity gains of the opinion-creation industry in which I happily participate, I wish we were better at remembering three words: Stop and think."
THE WASHINGTON POST: The culture of preconception
WORDS.
"...I’d acknowledge that none of us can get through the day without making a lot of assumptions. All of us have intellectual, ideological and moral commitments that we bring to bear upon what we think about almost everything.
But the hyperpolarization of our moment has sped up the rush to (contradictory) judgments, a practice further accelerated by new technologies. We have less patience than ever with the oftenpainstaking task of gathering facts. We are better informed yet seem more efficient than ever in manufacturing conspiracy theories.
I mistrust moralistic nostalgia for some nonexistent golden age of reason, and I have contentedly joined the bracing new-media world. The past had problems of its own.
Still, I’d insist that “crowdsourcing” is quite different from reasoning together, an art we seem to have forgotten. And at the risk of disrupting the productivity gains of the opinion-creation industry in which I happily participate, I wish we were better at remembering three words: Stop and think."
THE WASHINGTON POST: The culture of preconception
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
S.D.S.
Starring Mac Miller & Flying Lotus.
PITCHFORK: Listen: Flying Lotus Produces Mac Miller's "S.D.S.", Plus FlyLo Talks Jazz Project, Captain Murphy, More
Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
HUNGER GAMES.
"Why bother cooking? The reasons to skip it are stacked as high as the microwavable meals in a Costco freezer case. You don’t have time, of course (or you think you don’t); that’s the big one. But you also don’t do it as well as the professionals, so it’s tempting to let them handle it for you. Or at least let them give you a head start in the form of meal-assembly shops, cake mixes, and canned, frozen and pre-chopped ingredients.
Michael Pollan thinks you should bother, and not just as a fashionable exercise in hipsterdom. His latest book, “Cooked,” is a powerful argument for a return to home cooking of the sort that doesn’t begin with an attempt to find the perforated opening. .
...Throughout the book, Pollan reminds us how much cooking matters. The food industry, he writes in one example, was all too happy to step in when women started working outside the home and couples were at risk of arguing over who should get dinner on the table. “In the end, women did succeed in getting men into the kitchen, just not their husbands,” he writes. “No, they’ve ended up instead with the men who run General Mills and Kraft, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.”
...In Wrangham’s calculation, cooking gave humans an estimated four hours of extra time a day, time that we once spent chewing food to prepare it for digestion — and time that now, Pollan points out, happens to be about what we spend watching TV. We have plenty of time to cook; we just don’t choose to spend it that way..."
THE WASHINGTON POST: ‘Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation’ by Michael Pollan
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Big Top Circus.
An Ongoing Discussion/Moment of Clarity.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Dirty Vegas.
An Ongoing Discussion.
THE WASHINGTON POST: Obama’s reasonable budget runs into a roadblock
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Closer to Obama's 'grand bargain'
THE WASHINGTON POST: Obama’s reasonable budget runs into a roadblock
SEE ALSO:
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Closer to Obama's 'grand bargain'
Thursday, April 11, 2013
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