January 2012
NY TIMES: "Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made... →
Grantland - A Fighter Abroad →
In 1810, a freed slave named Tom Molineaux fought in one of the most important fights in the history of boxing. This is his story.
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netscapeshawty:
this only gif im using ever
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Dear Coke Talk: On letting it get to you. →
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
Going through bad break-ups, my roommate/co-worker/close friend and I slept together. This happened several months ago and it’s gotten messy. He was sad and wanted company so he said some things that sounded more intimate than they were, and I was sad and wanted company and…
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“In 5-billion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember...”
– astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter five minutes ago. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie →
youmightfindyourself:
By: Slavoj Žižek (to be read in Žižek voice) London Review of Books, Jan 11, 2012
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A consequence of the rise in productivity brought about by the exponentially growing impact of collective knowledge is a change in the role of unemployment. It is the very success of capitalism (greater efficiencies, raised productivity etc) which produces unemployment, rendering...
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Capitalism and Freedom →
This is, in fact, why political arguments about economic policy so often end up turning on disputes about the models and empirical results of people like Cochrane and DeLong. We’re mostly operating in a sphere of pragmatic “let’s make things better” thinking about policy, not a realm of strict rights-based reasoning. People want to know whether the roads are...
