December 2010
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CONSTANT SIEGE: On Why →
claytoncubitt:
“The problem (if there was one) was simply a problem with the question. He wants to paint a bird, needs to, and the problem is why. Why paint a bird? Why do anything at all? Not how, because hows are easy, series or sequence, one foot after the other, but existentially why bother, what does it…
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Un Escorpion Perfumado | Omar Rodriguez Lopez
8TH ONE THIS YEAR.
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The Senate voted 65-31 on Saturday to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,...
– Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Passes Senate 65-31
Sweden
kateoplis:
has the highest per capita number of reported rapes in Europe.
That number has quadrupled in the last 20 years, as conviction rates have decreased.
On 23 April 2010 Carina Hägg and Nalin Pekgul (respectively MP and chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden) wrote in the Göteborgs-Posten that “up to 90% of all reported rapes never get to court.
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Rare Honesty About WikiLeaks and American... →
kateoplis:
Courtesy of Ben Wittes at Lawfare, responding to a question about whether he believes that, if America should be permitted to prosecute a non-American like Assange for disclosing American secrets, countries like France, China, or Iran should be able to prosecute Americans for disclosing their secrets (my emphasis):
This, in turn, leads ineluctibly to Tom’s reciprocity point: If...
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Jenny Peto’s 100-page thesis argues that today’s Jews of European...
– Thesis on Jewish ‘privilege’ rebuked, sparking row
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Shot in Saddam Hussein’s hilltop palace in the mountains overlooking the River Tigris, Theatre of War is a slow, virtually static video piece redolent of classical history painting. Audio was recorded at the official US military hand-over ceremony at the nearby city of Saniya. A mullah’s prayer for unity among Arabs is spoken, after which the pan-Arab national anthem, Mawtini (My...
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Represensative Boehner and fellow Congressman Eric Cantor attacked the piece as...
– ‘Fire In My Belly’, Banned From Smithsonian, Now Playing At The New Museum
Tumblerror →
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Dear Interpol:
As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to...
– Naomi Wolf
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Adobe releases Lightroom 3.3, ACR 6.3 & Lens... →
The GE Show Episode 3: Flight!
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Sex and the City
SAMANTHA: Babies are not my scene. From what I've heard, this one's an asshole.
CARRIE: You can't call a baby an asshole.
SAMANTHA: Why not? She called it a meatloaf.
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どういたしまして | Omar Rodriguez Lopez
New live Album
Translation : You’re welcome = Dōitashimashite = どういたしまして