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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. —Leonard Cohen (seen on Facebook, posted by Image, I think)
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(Alabama). More information here.
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"the right is the party of tragedy" From Reihan Salam at National Review Online. The full sentence: At its best, the right is the party of tragedy and the impossibility of creating a perfectly just human society, but also of optimism about the potential of voluntary cooperation to help us achieve (modest) moral and (immodest)…
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In the art school there were all the conventional unconventionals–long-haired men, short-haired women, both at the time considered to be shocking and delighting in it. They were all interested in ideas more than in things, and most of them were kind, provided that they were not asked to be kind to someone who was obviously…
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…is so very much justified by this: I am not a very adventurous person, physically, but I would like to do that. I suppose "fun" isn't exactly the right word… There's a sort of strange intriguing Dominican tie-in on the YouTube page.
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While searching a guidebook to the trees of north American this morning, I discovered that there is a tree called the Caucasian Wingnut.
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When I was about ten years old, I used to design cities. It was very easy, and I was surprised that everyone before me had made such a hash of it. I could conclude only that the world had hitherto been populated by fools. That's the opening of "Brutal Blueprints," an interesting piece by Theodore…
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Burmese pythons should have been left in Burma where they belong. I hope it's too cool for them here.
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“My dad…would think I’m nuts.” And really he would sort of have a point.
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Latest example.
Light On Dark Water 