Saturday, March 24, 2018

Shakespeare said it best


The grass colors beautiful – orange yellow, sun-lit, rich reddish brown, pastel shades of pale brown pink, pale ochre, light gray creamy white, and some weed that gave off a slate gray color. With the sunlit fields of dead grass against a blue-black eastern sky, I thought of My Ántonia.”


Anonymous, no one said that this is "Liberty" , it's a Czech proverb. I believe it suggests that when the big thieves get caught, they always look for someone lower on the food chain to blame. When the IRS scandal broke, the folks in D.C. blamed some underlings in Cincinnati. They just didn't know anything about it at headquarters.



Every year the environmental saints ask us to sit in the dark contemplating our sins against Mother Earth for what they call “Earth Hour."

“DAMN, THE ONION REALLY BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN REALITY AND SATIRE THESE DAYS:” American People Admit Having Facebook Data Stolen Kind Of Worth It To Watch That Little Fucker Squirm


BLASTS FROM THE PAST, PART DEUX: The Beatles released their first LP,Please Please Me 55 years ago today: The Beatles’ Marathon Please Please Me Session, Hour by Hour.


The sessions wrapped just after 10:45 p.m., and the following night the Beatles were back out on the road. The venture had cost the record label just £400 (about $11,000 in 2018). “There wasn’t a lot of money at Parlophone,” Martin admitted. “I was working to an annual budget of £55,000.” It took the band just under 10 hours of studio time to record the bulk of their first album, released on March 22nd, 1963, as Please Please Me. As Harrison wryly observed decades later: “The second one took even longer.”
Reason.com: You’ve purchased a firearm with Bitcoin, or vice versa.
Vox.com: You can turn any social gathering into a debate about tax policy.
Tumblr.com: Your parents don’t understand you. Nobody does

Pitchfork.com: You have a yearly budget for attending noise rock festivals in Bratislava

MediaDragon.com: The most important thing for you is to be yourself. Authority figures must earn your respect before you’ll listen to them






The Conversation
Hamilton paints a picture of unrelenting determination not only to control those within China but also to dominate the world using whatever means at its


MALE PRIVILEGE: Why A Good Father Prepares His Sons For Cold and Hot War

The mess of the Trump administration suggests where an insufficient respect for germane experience can lead. The president put Carson in charge of federal housing, Rex Tillerson in charge of diplomacy and Jared Kushner in charge of civilization itself. None of this panned out, but all of it was true to how Trump campaigned Cynthia Nixon experience for governor - The March pf Pollie Folly


On My Block Is a Remarkable Coming-of-Age Story

Shakespeare said it best William Blum




 consider a statement prominently attributed to Einstein in the concluding section of a current British Museum exhibition on religion, ‘Living with Gods’: ‘The most beautiful and profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science.’ Absent from The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, it seems to have been derived in the decades after Einstein’s death from the following comment, in his handwriting, spoken by him in 1932 for a recording issued by the German League for Human Rights. Translated from Einstein’s original German it reads: ‘The most beautiful and profound experience is the feeling of mystery. It underlies religion as well as all deeper aspirations in art and science.’ Note the most significant modification: ‘mystery’ in 1932 has become ‘mystical’ by 2018.



 “Is irony connected with blast furnaces?” A quiz for those who dare to take it.

Using a loophole in censorship laws, journalists pair with musicians to set stories to music, uploaded to Spotify.
↩︎ Pitchfork
↩︎ Behaviour on the Web - The Atlantic

Sex isn’t a sandwich, and it isn’t really like anything else either. There is nothing else so riven with politics and yet so inviolably personal.


Some interesting thoughts about contemporary desire, Grindr swaps, and how men explain Lolita to women.
↩︎ The London Review of Books

We spent a year photographing the animal crop raiders of the Amazon – here are the results The Conversation. Some great pics


Can history help? London Review of Books



Images don’t just document the way cities change; they inform and influence the process.


 The joke of nature is that it tells us all how we have to look. Someday soon, as science fiction completes the collision course with reality, we will be able to cheaply and reliably change every aspect of our appearance, shifting nose jobs from the realm of privilege to the realm of everyday humdrummery. Weight will become a secret number kept between you and your tantric yoga partner. Everyone will have blue eyes

There are all these lists — The 100 Best ‘Whatevers’ of All Time, that sort of thing — and I often wonder if these movies, books and songs are still any good, if they are still the best