December 2010
30 posts
Women's Herstory Month →
Do you see what I did there?
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Chapter 1
December 26—the first day upon which I had occasion to save a human life.
I was walking down a narrow road. It was dark. A sudden warm spell had melted the snowfall from the previous week into a film of slush, and hills—such as the one I was on—were treacherous.
I wound my way through the brown-brick townhouses, trying futilely to keep the slop off the capped toes of my black Oxfords. Then,...
DTF
Drinking to Forget?
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“You are one of the finest kids I have ever had in our programs - perhaps top...”
Why does my heart
feel so bad?
Why does my...
Wuer Kaixi →
The blog of a Chinese dissident.
The Big Zip →
Fashion for a *real* man
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Unquestionably one of the best hip-hop songs of...
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Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke, diplomat and troubleshooter, died on December 13th, aged 69
HIS favourite book was Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick”, and it was pretty clear why. He cited Ishmael’s confession near the beginning of his memoir of the 1995 Bosnian peace talks, “To End a War”: “as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on...
“Wanna put a bullet in my head, but instead I take a shot”
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via mikeycdavis)
True, though it’s not the only reason we’re afraid to care too much. Sometimes we withhold our care because we are afraid the other person will truly care back. That is an intimidating responsibility…and one that ought never be undertaken...
When it rains...
it motherfucking pours.
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How Economics Saved Christmas
Art Carden - The Economic Imagination
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, DID NOT.
He stood and he hated the Whos and their noise
He hated the shrieks of the Who girls and boys
For fifty-three years he’d put up with it now—
He had to stop Christmas from coming, somehow.
He asked and he questioned the whole thing’s legality
...
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Where children sleep - Telegraph →
nancywnsun:
So much more than the bedroom I know.
This does such good job driving home its message: life is REALLY DIFFERENT for different groups of people.
THE ESSENTIAL MAN: How Not to Have a Missed... →
theessentialman:
Anonymous asked: Have you ever randomly approached a girl in a public setting trying to talk to her/acquire her #? If you have, how did it go? Do you have any suggestions for somebody that would like to try it?
Yes, to be honest it’s not my favorite thing to do. The last time I asked a…
November 2010
23 posts
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THE ESSENTIAL MAN: Some People are Toxic, Avoid... →
“There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on.
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This is true.
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