March 2012
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via expose-the-light)
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Issac Asimov (via askjerves)
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“I felt located, too, but I could also imagine that if I hollered, my voice might not ever bounce back — that where I was, precisely, was a ridge top in a wide wilderness on a spinning rock in outer space. Ahead of me on the trail, as we neared our destination, Betchkal’s figure blurred in the darkness. The trees around us disappeared. There were, at last, only our footsteps. Then, barely...
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When the book I'm reading overlaps...
“I had brought Le to the Arrowhead Inn a number of times, but had never gone inside it myself. I expected it to be a dive, dark and dank and bestrewn. I was surprised at the near-clinical orderliness I met when I pulled open the heavy steel door. There was an expanse of bare floor ending at a waist-high counter that ran clear across the room, and behind the counter glass-front coolers full of...
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...with my newspaper.
At Tribe’s Door, a Hub of Beer and Heartache
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Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all we have, that it is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our own is strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn’t it? And as you split frost-laced wood with numb hands, rejoice that your uncertainty is God’s will and His grace...
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How to Watch Presidential Campaign Ads →
A few days ago, Susan King, dean of UNC Chapel Hill’s Journalism School, called fortransparency in political ads, a request that has been on the table before, as Steven Waldman broke down back in December.
In late 2011 and early 2012, the Iowa caucus cycle produced 24/7 campaign ads, and some reports indicate that local television broadcasters in the state earned $18 million in campaign...
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“I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40...”
– The Washington Post, “Olympia Snowe: Why I’m Leaving the Senate” (via inothernews)
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