January 2012
“Ron Paul is vilified for missing a few paragraphs out of hundreds of newsletters...”
– Hosanna Myers (via riverofliberty)
Ron Paul can’t manage a newsletter that spanned nearly two decades, filled with page after page of offensive material (just like his 1987 book), so he can’t manage a country. It’s that simple. Trying to smear his opponents with false equivalencies merely...
December 2011
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everyone: it's just a book
you: YOU KNOW NOTHING
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via misswallflower)
4 Little Love Story Poems by Carol Novack →
“On Tuesday, there will be a contest to select the preferred candidate of a small...”
– Feel Free to Ignore Iowa (via ryking)
On startup transparency
avimuchnick:
When I first started @Aviary, I planned to be completely transparent about the company’s progress with everyone: employees, users and total strangers.
I understood that traditionally, early startups were in complete stealth mode and closed about their plans and progress.
That seemed silly to me.
It didn’t make those startups seem mysterious. It made their ideas seem indefensible...
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
MSF Shocked And Deeply Saddened By The Killing Of... →
doctorswithoutborders:
It is with great sadness that the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that two of its staff members were killed Thursday morning as a result of a shooting at the MSF compound in Mogadishu, Somalia.
While one of the aid workers died during the shooting, the other was transferred to a hospital and...
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reference books are at the back of the library,...
There’s something on my back, crawling up my skin and much like Donna, I don’t see it. Only, I wish I could forget him or figure out what turn I could’ve taken differently to get by him altogether— what page to skip, what crash to have, what second to blink. I don’t know when they all turned into a boy in the airport who turned into a boy on the phone who turned into...
“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
exceptionallyaverage:
Is is wrong to be upset because I’m not Beyonce?
