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i will write more a little later about my new love of design and how it will shape my future, for now, enjoy mr starck. also, im back, will have pictures up later today…
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Crazy conspiracy theorists →
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Report: $1.6 billion went to executives at bailed... →
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Person Of The Year →
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George Bush shoe protester has been beaten, Iraqi... →
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Ideas by Paul Krugman - Big Think an incredibly annoying format, but well worth the trouble
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A prosecutor should be appointed to consider criminal charges against top officials at the Pentagon and others involved in planning the abuse. NYTimes -The Torture Report As Law Professor Jonathan Turley said several weeks ago on The Rachel Maddow Show: “It’s the indictment of all of us if we walk away from a clear war crime.”  And this week, Turley pointed out to...
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On Evaluating US Education Through International...
Clifford Adelman in Inside Higher Ed, via 3quarksdaily
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“Obama seems to feel otherwise. And he’s the president.” Matthew Yglesias » Out Out Out I F*ing LOVE that sentence
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‘Is Afghanistan Lost?’ — The Harvard University... →
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The carbon atlas →
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An Empire of Sentimentality
Americans love and respect the men and women who volunteer for military service under our flag. And those of us who’ve had friends serve in Iraq, and especially those who’ve personally served in Iraq and watched friends be killed or maimed, think only the best of the people who’ve been doing dangerous jobs in difficult circumstances. But I think it’s crucially important not to allow these...
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A Word on Celebrity and the Economy
i wrote a blog post for big think today, my original is below (see if you can spot what was edited out). I am gonna try and write at least once a week, we shall see how that goes… We all know how much America loves it’s celebrities, these creatures of immense popularity that often evoke intense emotion and opinion and appear in nearly every headline. Well, what happens when our newest...
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Andrew Sullivan - In Defense Of Torture →
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But if Obama is going to move forward, he is going to have to rely on civic leaders in cities and towns across the nation to accomplish his goal. The question is, is the US ready? With American governors and mayors headed to jail on what seems like a weekly basis, corruption, not collaboration, seems to be the order of the day. If I was Obama, I might talk to government officials from around the...
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1. Shouldn’t you have jumped in front of that shoe? 2. Shouldn’t you have jumped in front of that second shoe? 3. Second shoe = the one thrown after being removed from foot after first shoe was thrown. 4. Let’s say people had three feet. Would you have allowed a third shoe to fly unimpeded? 5. While the shoe was in the air, were you like, “Oh, its just a shoe.” ...
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