January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
Miracle on Ice -- New York Times Magazine's The... →
If you haven’t already checked out These American Lives, part of NYT magazine’s annual The Lives They Lived (guest edited by This American Life producers), it’s delightful. This write-up about “the father of the cryonics movement” is enjoyably odd.
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
2 posts
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September 2011
4 posts
Maurice Sendak at 83: A portrait of the author as... →
“I mean, it’s great to have a successful book. I’m not so dumb as to not know that is a good thing. But that is not the thing, and that’s why this is a good time. Because the important things – what were considered important to me – are no longer important. They’re not shame-faced, they’re not bad. They’re just not what interests me any more.”
This may be one of my favourite...
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August 2011
2 posts
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July 2011
4 posts
My new side project: Fact Checking the Fords →
timfalconer:
I’ve launched a new side project: a Tumblr that will aggregate the fact checking of Canadian politicians of all stripes. I call it Fact Checking the Fords because I am expecting Toronto’s Ford brothers will provide a lot of the content. More than just calling out the politicians, I want to honour the journalists — professional or not — who not only refuse to take our elected...
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
5 posts
WatchFurther to my last post
Why SlutWalk raises hackles – and hopes →
“It all ties in to the package of having some power over your destiny, and when the right to abortion starts to be eroded here, as it is in the U.S., they’ll have some practise taking on the establishment. The fights coming up will be harder, the stakes will be higher, but the seeds are sown in any kind of protest that says, ‘Hey, wait a minute, who are you to tell me what to do with my body?’”
April 2011
13 posts
A Procession of Wartime Trauma →
“In clinical terms, this triage tent has seen a catalog of the effects of modern weapons on human life — gunshot wounds, blast wounds, shrapnel wounds, the occasional burns. People arrive with wounds as mild as a bullet’s graze, to wounds as life-changing as a severed spinal cord. A few arrive dead.”
Read the story here.
“Let me state here unequivocally: I do not admit to being a character assassin....”
– Ira responds to Judge Williams’ press release | This American Life (via aaronleaf)
I also enjoyed:
Mr. Oedel writes:
“John Dills, the father of Lindsey Dills, the primary source relied upon by Glass for his story, flatly rejected Glass’s claim that the drug court program hurt his...
Green Party candidate resigns over rape comment on... →
Apparently, this is all being taken “out of context.”
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– - E.B. White (via stanielsbookclub)
LOVE
March 2011
14 posts
Death is Not the End: David Foster Wallace, James... →
The new sincerity movement, or the “antidote to all this ironic hollowness.”
NYT short: War Dogs →
“In Afghanistan, every outpost seems to have a dog.”
I like Waggles.
