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Best vine type video ever? or EVER? (via philiplumbang:patbaer:alcoholicgifts:danieldempsey)
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“Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail…You effectively condition your...”
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token black girl on Flickr.
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Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?
“The sure manner with which Rhimes wields her power did not come naturally;...
These are not in rank order. And I know, there’s still plenty of time for earth-shatteringly good long reads articles to be published between now and the new year. To those writers who will be published in the gap between year-end list-making and the beginning of keeping tally on the bests and worsts of 2013, my condolences.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Fear of a Black President.” The Atlantic.
- Colin Dayan. “How Not to Talk About Gaza.“ Boston Review.
- Jeff Chang. “I Gotta Be Able to Counter-Attack: Rap and the Los Angeles Riots.” The LA Review of Books.
- E. Tammy Kim. “South L.A., Twenty Years Later” Guernica.
- Lindsay Zoladz. “Cold Facts.” Pitchfork.
- Tom Junod. “Counterterrorism is Getting Complicated.” Esquire.
- Matthieu Aikins.”Jamming Tripoli.” Wired.
- bell hooks. “No Love in the Wild.” NewBlackMan in Exile.
- Erik Nielsen. “How Hip-Hop Fell Out of Love With Obama.” The Guardian.
- Joseph Dana. “The Café and the Unfinished Revolution.” The LA Review of Books.
- Tom Freston. “Everyone Goes to Leo’s.” Vanity Fair.
- Jeff Sharlet “Inside Occupy Wall Street.“ Rolling Stone.
- Hugh Gusterson. “An education in occupation.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- Maya Mikdashi. “The Uprisings Will Be Gendered.” Jadaliyya.
- Maya Mikdashi. “How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East.” Jadaliyya.
- Jeffrey Toobin. “How John Roberts Orchestrated Citizens United.” The New Yorker.
- Dahlia Lithwick. “Extreme Makeover: The story behind Lawrence v. Texas.” The New Yorker.
- Kiese Laymon. “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance.” Gawker.
- Madeline Miller. “Tape Delay.” Lapham’s Quarterly.
- Kendra Salois. “Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad.” The New Inquiry.
- Laila Lalami. “So To Speak.” World Literature Today.
- Gregg Carlstrom. “In The Kingdom of Tear Gas.” MERIP.
- Kelly McEvers. “The Crackdown: How the US looked the other way while Bahrain crushed the Arab Spring’s most ill-fated uprising.” The Washington Monthly.
- Andreanne Stewart. “Why You Shouldn’t Tell American Border Guards You’re in Islamic Studies.” The McGill Daily.
For that week between the holidays.
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
- Q: The Constitution says that 'the Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes… to provide for the… general Welfare of the United States.' But I noticed that when you quoted this section on page 116 [of "Fed Up!"], you left 'general welfare' out and put an ellipsis in its place. Progressives would say that 'general welfare' includes things like Social Security or Medicare—that it gives the government the flexibility to tackle more than just the basic responsibilities laid out explicitly in our founding document. What does 'general welfare' mean to you?
- Rick Perry: I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term 'general welfare' in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that. From my perspective, the states could substantially better operate those programs if that’s what those states decided to do.
- Q: So in your view those things fall outside of general welfare. But what falls inside of it? What did the Founders mean by 'general welfare'?
- Rick Perry: I don’t know if I’m going to sit here and parse down to what the Founding Fathers thought general welfare meant.
- Q: But you just said what you thought they didn’t mean by general welfare. So isn’t it fair to ask what they did mean? It’s in the Constitution.
- Rick Perry: [Silence.]
- Q: OK. Moving on [...]
We’re going to turn Minnesota red for 2012.
Reince Priebus, Minnesota GOP Chairman, speaking about the 2012 elections.
Oh, FFS. >_<
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