January 2011
31 posts
Today I told a guy that if he started dressing like me he might actually get laid.
I’m not shaving until the end of February. Not sure if I want to upload “before” pictures now or not.
Let me just say that this Sarah Palin Battle Hymn...
…is funny, yes, but I think it’s being dismissed as just that: funny. It’s only funny in a world where the Tea Party is completely powerless. I don’t think that they are, and I think they might gain more power. And honestly that is the scariest thing in the world to me.
So when I see a video extolling the supposed virtues of Palin, whose hate-mongering and continued bids...
Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure.
– Jane Brody (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
– Charles de Secondat (via lifeofliterature)
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Confidence in free will is biologically adaptive. Without it the mind,...
– Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
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The capacity for remembrance by the manipulation of symbols is a transcendent...
– Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
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We have original sin, which makes us better than angels. Whatever good we...
– “Consilience” by Edward O. Wilson
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My dream job: Watching Lost with Joseph Campbell.
I had a terrible nightmare about the USA →
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Pure mathematics is the science of all conceivable worlds, a logically closed...
– “Consilience” by Edward O. Wilson
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No one should suppose that objective truth is impossible to attain, even when...
– “Consilience” by Edward O. Wilson
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity...
– “Consilience” by Edward O. Wilson
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That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and...
– “Consilience” by Edward O. Wilson
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This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding: Our species and its ways...
– “Consilience” by Edward O. Wilson