"lasers are a young science"
Rafael Nadal had to return to tennis some time (hallelujah!), but why Chile? Reeves Wiedeman on Rafa’s rationale: http://nyr.kr/XrbvMe
Like an opera singer coming back from vocal-chord surgery at a performance with the local community symphony, he’s hoping to make sure everything’s in working order before he takes on a tougher crowd.
Perfect. (via Lizzy Caplan In “Fashion Film” | The Awl)
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Amen to all of this dude.
“Here we see the ethos and morality of imperial Washington: past support for torture and rendition does not disqualify one for a top national security position; only an extramarital affair can do that.”
Pulp and James Murphy… Happy New Year to me.
In [Bigelow’s] hands, the hunt for bin Laden is essentially a police procedural, devoid of moral context. If she were making a film about slavery in antebellum America, it seems, the story would focus on whether the cotton crops were successful.
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Let’s get one thing straight. The Bill of Rights is not a moral doctrine. It’s the product of a negotiation. The negotiation happened 223 years ago, when different concerns were on the table, when evil existed but didn’t walk into a school and murder 18 children. Rights are the product of politics, they are not bestowed upon you by God, and the Founding Fathers were representatives of interest groups, not prophets. We have every ability to repeal the 2nd Amendment.
To people who say that if the 2nd Amendment goes, then we have to worry about the 1st and 5th and the other good ones that have become part of the American credo: I say good luck to anyone who thinks they can get those repeals through the political process.
And to the idiots at Fox News who said Jovan Belcher could have just as easily murdered his girlfriend with a knife, so a gun ban doesn’t make sense —just try to argue that 18 children could have been murdered by knives this morning, you irresponsible, intellectually dishonest, complicit miscreants.
You guys, Korg’s iPolysix is what’s really.
¡Olé!
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Mike Konczal flags a Department of Education study that shows that the government earns $1.14 back for every dollar it loans to students and asks, “What’s a good word for the opposite of a subsidy? Whatever it is, student loans are that”.
it’s called an INVESTMENT. Low interest student loans are a public sector investment in the country’s future. More like this.
