July 2010
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Meet Your Farmer | Tide Mill Farm: “I think people want to be farmers. Deep down inside, I think everybody wants to be a farmer.”
Most of you will not play this video, and that’s fine. But the rest of you, will be moved by it. I promise. (watch fullscreen)
previously
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Another beautiful La Blogotheque video: Camille & Piers Faccini / One of These Things First (Nick Drake)
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Christopher Hitchens diagnosed with cancer →
“I’ve been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me.”
His wife, Carol Blue, told us he “wants to live — live to see his political enemies defeated.”
June 2010
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In a little more than a year the United States flew $12 billion in cash to Iraq,...
– Dennis Kucinich to Congress: Billions Missing, Lies Mounting
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FIFA apologizes for officiating errors and says it... →
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Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck →
Lara Logan, come on down! You’re the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing Jealous Hackfest 2010!
I thought I’d seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastings on...
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… Nor are husbands offering much stimulation in the male display...
– Fantastic read by Camille Paglia in NYT: No Sex Please, We’re Middle-Class
via mikehudack; katykelley
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Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
– Groucho Marx (via wreckandsalvage)
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BP Welcomes You to the Apocalypse →
So it’s come to this. Every day in the media, a sort of deranged, comical footrace to figure out which worst-case scenario is really the worst, because every day comes a new stat, prediction, photo, possibility for abject horror we hadn’t even conceptualized yet because, well, we’ve never exactly been here before, not at this scale. How bad can it all get, really? No one has a...
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Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Along the... →
Every day, as many as 260 trucks filled with supplies for U.S. troops - from muffins to fuel to armoured tanks - are driven from the Pakistani port of Karachi across the Khyber pass into Afghanistan. They’ve always been a dangerous mission - the Soviets reportedly spent most of their occupation in the 1980s fighting off attacks. The U.S. has chosen another method - outsourcing...
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