February 2012
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The Internet is a Major Driver of the Growth of... →
Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over...
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Mad Men binge.
I had forgotten how incredible the show is.
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not the desired effect
fuck school.
fuck university. fuck spending my days sitting in class, struggling to stay sufficiently awake that I can intake information and vomit it up on an exam. fuck grades, and class ranking and mortar boards. fuck valedictorian speeches
fuck student debt. fuck putting my parents through the wringer to pay for a university that cares more about its rankings than its teachers and its...
“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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genius
I sent a scholarship application to the wrong email address.
Gah, I’m pissed. Good thing I only spent 2 hours on it and I don’t really have any interest in writing an article about Semana Santa.
so as to not enter a spiral of missing new orleans...
I must stay away from facebook.
Mardi Gras…
I’m gonna give this Spanish Carnival thing a whirl, but damn I want those stupid ass plastic beads and to celebrate with the frisbee team.
"Blackouts" by Mark Leidner. This. Read this.... →
I’ve been getting these amazing and epic emails from my friends back home. They’re incredible. Every time I read them they make me unreasonably happy.
James Dean
Despite the Madrid metro’s very best attempt to prevent me from doing so, I saw Rebel without a Cause.
How did I get to be 20 without knowing this movie was an interpretation of “The Cave?”
I mean the character’s name is Plato
really, how had I not seen the film?
Modern art and modern technology
I’ve been watcing a lot of these shit people say videos. I can’t help it, they appear on my dash and I decide I must watch them. I think I’ve actually become a pretty capable critic of them. There’s the stregnth of the humor (which largely comes from accuracy and sometimes being offensive), there’s production value (do not underestimate production...
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education →
austinkleon:
One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense. But they’re not. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people. Their pain does not hurt more. Their souls do not weigh...
A manifesto
I’ve been having just a total shit month (exams, cold weather, too much time in my own head) and when my english lesson for today called and canceled (which I was overjoyed about as I am trying to decide if I should just quit because I hate teaching english) I decided to go to the museum to try and cheer myself up.
So, here is the grand epiphany of the day in short, declarative form:
Be...
Marines sport Nazi SS flag in Afganistan
I’m furious. I’m offended. And you know what, I’m scared.
The Marines have given the exuse that the troops didn’t know what the flag stood for. Why don’t I find that a comforting response? I don’t think it’s necessary to explain why I would be offended by the fact that the Marines were sporting the flag of an army that aimed to systematically nihilate...
I have a theory
I keep on reading about the psychotic republican candidates becuase their bat-shit-crazy antics (Newt Gingrich said the subway is for the elites, ahem, has never been stuck on the G train) make me feel less awful about the conservitive politics of our supposedly liberal president.
Oh wait, nope.
Still feel like shit about it all.
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how 'bout them republicans
Santorum?
Really? that guy?
Yep. Now I don’t know if the seeming insanity of the republican field makes me feel better (it’ll be harder to defeat Obama) or if it just scares the shit out of me. Maybe it’s that at the end of the day I’m more scared by social conservatives than fiscal ones. I know that Romney is running as a super social conservative, but everyone...
DONE! EXAMS ARE DONE*
Now what should I do with my life?
Hunger Games?
Write something?
Go grocery shopping?
I think most people think of study abroad as like, a constant party, not like…hmmm maybe today I’ll go to carrefour becuase they have delicious cereal.
*if I pass
from some nytimes blog
Additionally, students intending to major in the humanities were more likely to say that they, an immediate family member or their grandparent had been diagnosed with a major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder or substance abuse problems.
Oh those humanities majors. They’re crazy*.
*Sidenote: I tried putting “they is crazy” and I just could not do it. I guess...
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I have this exam but...
We might get bought out of our apartment
and
my sister is (no surprise here) fighting with my parents
and
I’m feeling sort of sick
and
I didn’t learn a god damn thing in this class*
so
I have no idea what to study in the first place.
*statment adjustment: I did learn things in this class but it was not because the teacher taught them, no it was because the teacher assigned...
“Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees,...”
– Le’echappee, LD (via colourcollision)
What fucking asshole decided we should start...
“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the...”
– Mitt Romney: ‘I’m Not Concerned About The Very Poor’ (via robot-heart-politics)
What a fucking charmer