May 2011
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Tina Fey: The Mother's Prayer for Its Daughter
From her new book Bossypants. She read this on NPR’s Fresh Air back in April. It’s a great interview. Go give it a listen. Here’s the prayer: The mother’s prayer for its daughter. First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither the Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she be beautiful but not damaged, for it’s...
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May 22nd
If I had a math teacher who would have shown me solutions like this instead of just throwing formulas at me, I might understand a lot more about the world. As it is, I’m sure I tend to look around the world for formulas instead of solutions. From Futility Closet Square Deal: Point A is the center of one square and the vertex of another. The side of each square is 4 inches. What is the area...
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WatchWatch
wgbhlab: “I believe the media are mirrors….and what we fear is our reflection.” -Brooke Gladstone wnyc: How to blow your own mind: watch the trailer for Brooke Gladstone’s new graphic novel The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media! -A.P.
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“What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than...”
– Oh, George, if you only knew how even more true your words are today than in your day.
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kellyoxford: The internet is ‘Cheers’ and everyone is Cliff Claven, but they think they’re Norm.                         
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Lawrence Wright on the role of the Pakistani government regarding Osama bin Laden: “I’m not surprised to learn that he was essentially sheltered by Pakistani intelligence and military units. I do make that assumption. I feel that for years, the Pakistani military and intelligence complex has been in the ‘looking for bin Laden’ business. He was a priceless asset to them because we poured billions...
May 2nd
What bothers me most about this whole thing is that somehow people think we’ve won something by killing Osama bin Laden. When I look at the whole thing, all I see is that he won, not us. He tried to bring down the WTC in the 90s and it didn’t work. So he figured out what would work and brought it down in 01. Did he hurry? no. It wasn’t about the when but the what. He chose the...
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