January 2012
39 posts
“Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in...”
– MSF general director Christopher Stokes. MSF is suspending operations in detention centers in Misrata, Libya, because detainees are being tortured and denied urgent medical care. (via doctorswithoutborders)
Lapham's Quarterly: John Tyler's Grandsons Are... →
laphamsquarterly:
Shut UP, history! You are so crazy!
mentalflossr:
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this…
FAVORITE HISTORICAL PIECE OF TRIVIA. I have repeated this fact to people while drunk at...
“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
Dooce gets a trial separation. →
I have been reading her blog since right after her first daughter was born. I remember reading about her pregnancy with Marlo when I was in Paris and it helped cheer me up when I was feeling blue or homesick. It makes me genuinely sad to think that she and her husband are breaking up. I know she gets lots of hate from all over the Internet but to me she represented this very approachable dream...
“Kristy, I have a problem. I don’t like wearing my glasses in front of Oscar (her...”
– My mother (via gethustle)
Lord, how I do miss Kristy’s Family Stories.
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
Homeless Long Island Teenager Is Intel Competition... →
reuters:
(CBSNewYork / AP) - Samantha Garvey has good reason to be the recipient of high fives and congratulations from the faculty and students in the hallways at Brentwood High School.
The 17-year-old senior says she cannot believe that she is one of the semifinalists in the highly prestigious Intel Science Competition, in part because she lives in a Bay Shore homeless shelter with her...
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for...”
– Haruki Murakami (via opalinefeather)
Can somebody PLEASE explain to me why Haruki Murakami is supposed to be a wonderful writer instead of a shitty LiveJournal? I have never seen a single quotation that didn’t look ribbed off a 13 year old’s textbook cover. He’s like the...
Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World... →
youmightfindyourself:
Not many people think of shantytowns, illegal street vendors, and unlicensed roadside hawkers as major economic players. But according to journalist Robert Neuwirth, that’s exactly what they’ve become. In his new book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, Neuwirth points out that small, illegal, off-the-books businesses collectively account for...
Books Read in 2011 →
52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge COMPLETED. Bonus: Completed a Bronte triple.
December 2011
45 posts
All I really want for 2012 is for everything I love to survive to see 2013. My closest animal companion, Pookie, was a prickly, skittish cat who avoided most human contact and was difficult to understand. But she’s always been my special one, I defended her from everything, even a family that wanted to put her back up for adoption again, and in return she would sit on my lap, nuzzle up to...
“In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via soupsoup
)
