March 2012
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nedhepburn)
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“Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, writing in his 2005 book It Takes A Family, essentially saying that women have no role in the workplace.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is...
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“(Rick Santorum’s) loss in Michigan raises the possibility that he has hit a...”
– The New York Times, “In Ohio, Santorum Tries to Widen Message While Keeping Base Excited” (via inothernews)
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February 2012
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Done with my paper!
MAHLER. MAHLER. MAHLER. MAHLER. MAHLER. MAHLER.
No but actually, though. I’m writing a paper on the man right now. Except not RIGHT now, because obviously I’m on tumblr.
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BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: Here's the thing about... →
inothernews:
Look at the video again and you can see, hear, and feel the contempt in Santorum’s voice. He hates the president. To his core. It was unfettered, unabashed, unfiltered and utter, the utterest hatred for Obama I’ve ever heard. There was no uncomfortable laughter to mask it with, as Romney…
I have so much contempt for this man.
“Suddenly, toward the end of his life, Kierkegaard began to worry what his answer...”
– Morton Feldman, “In Memoriam: Edgard Varèse” (via imaginarydances)
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“Tell me, I forget; show me, I remember; involve me, I understand.”
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Carl Orff
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“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that...”
– Stanley Kubrick (via kenzel)
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“But can we please admit that many four year colleges do in fact attempt to...”
– Conor Friedersdorf
theatlantic: Let’s hear it. Is Conor wrong?
markcoatney: Yes. Also, if I were a Notre Dame alum I’d be fairly offended at being lumped in with a racist institution like Bob Jones.
Politicalprof: This is pedantry at its best.
All education is transformative. No one is born...
Composers as Gardeners →
My topic is the shift from ‘architect’ to ‘gardener’, where ‘architect’ stands for ‘someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made’, to ‘gardener’ standing for ‘someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up’. I will argue that today’s composer are more frequently ‘gardeners’ than ‘architects’ and, further, that the ‘composer as architect’ metaphor was a...
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Question: If Community isn’t renewed and this is your last day on set ever, what will you take away from this experience and what will you miss the most?
Gillian Jacobs: I’m going to cry. It so far exceeded my expectations of what the show would be. This is one of the best pilots I’ve ever read, so already my expectations were high. Then shooting the pilot -
[Jacobs begins to cry.]
Yvette Nicole Brown: Oh, it’s OK, Stinkers. She’s such a pretty crier. My God, she’s a pretty crier.
Gillian Jacobs: I’ve never worked with a group of people that have impressed me so consistently on such a daily basis. I feel like given the nature of this show, we’ve been thrown everything from an action movie to a noir to My Dinner With Andre. Everybody rose to it every single week. The writing and the creativity and the scope and the ambition of the show has been— [Jacobs’s sobbing becomes ragged.]
Yvette Nicole Brown: Oh, well. I can’t sit here and not hug you.
[Brown and Brie embrace Jacobs.]
Gillian Jacobs: Yeah. For all the people that have only heard about our show—it’s spoofs, it’s pop culture, it’s genre—they’re missing the fact that these are different, new characters on television that people have grown to love. So even when we do an episode which is set in the apartment and there’s no obvious spoof or takeoff, people still want to watch it because they love and care about these characters.
[Brie begins to cry.]
Yvette Nicole Brown: Oh, Stinker, what’s happening? Oh, my girls. Oh, my little pumpkins.
“The brokeness is everywhere, the disarray is universal. You have only to open...”
– Paul Auster, City of Glass (via theprospectofvanishingforever)
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“Rick, I’m sorry that hearing that JFK speech on religion makes you throw up, but...”
– JON STEWART, on Rick Santorum saying JFK’s historic speech on the separation of church and state makes him want to “throw up,” on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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“In the 1960’s, we were at war with the Soviet Union. Cold War, and a little bit...”
– Dr. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, on why the de-prioritization of space exploration is a “tragedy,” and how, in fact, the Cold War helped foster U.S. space exploration, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Rick Santorum is a perfect example of why...
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“To say people of faith have no role in the public square”
– Apparently Rick Santorum missed the day in Law School when they talked about what exactly separation of church and state meant (via absurdreasoning)
…which should only take one day, because IT’S SO FUCKING EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
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I am now imagining this exchange in a future...
Abed: Oh, everyone needs to be extra careful this week.
Jeff: Why's that?
Abed: It's Sweeps Week. High-rating shows always have some big mind-blowing event in Sweeps Week to get ratings. Someone dies, or there's a natural disaster.
Jeff: Abed, for the last time, this is not one of those shows!
Abed: No, you're probably right. Some shows just have some big Oscar-winning actor make an appearance.
Jeff: This is Greendale. I doubt there's an Oscar-winning actor in the entire state, let alone one about to walk through the study room door.
Dean Pelton: *walks through the study room door* Hel-looooooo!
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“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
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“I don’t believe in an America where there’s a separation of church and state…...”
– GOP presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, on ABC News This Week.
Even Jesus Christ thinks this dick is a dick.
(via inothernews)
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“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, on Sunday’s Meet The Press.
No seriously. This guy is a fucking dick.
(via the Los Angeles Times)
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Watchblogthoven:
On tonight’s NBC Nightly News they talked about Eric Whitacre and his Virtual Choir.
boner-iver:
The Tallest Man On Earth - It Will...
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