July 2010
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No Regrets: Carter, Brzezinski and the Mujahideen →
Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76*
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You...
Correlation
My computer is in the kitchen
I do most of my tumblring while making dinner
My cooking has got steadily worse over the past three years
mariposima:
Sammy Burdson — Centurion
From...
Career Entropy #2
My boss: Keswick has a pencil museum. It has the world's largest pencil.
My mouth: Yes, but the world's largest pencil was only there when you were. It's like when you went to the spanner museum and they had a sign up saying "home to the world's largest spanner."
My boss: Huh?
My mouth: They took the banner down after you left.
My boss: Eh?
My mouth: What's our common denominator?
My boss: Oh, fuck you.
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“In my view some members of the gay community need to stop regarding themselves...”
– Sunday Times editor John Witherow, responding to a complaint from BBC Sport presenter Clare Balding. Balding has now taken the matter to the Press Complaints Commission.
“… we want our identities—our cultural investments—recognized; we want to be...”
– Information Processing and Pleasure, PopMatters (via somethingchanged) (via crowth)
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WatchYou may have seen this on GRITtv this week, with Jay Rosen postulating to Michael Otterman and Laura Flanders the question, in relation to what impact, if any, the Wikileaks war logs might or might not have: What if elites decide that public opinion on Afghanistan doesn’t matter? Arthur Silber has also recently suggested the same, and this also happens to be the key question underlying my...
“Because of the critical nature of Afghanistan’s location for those in pursuit of...”
– Arthur Silber (via Instapaper)
bradicalmang:
Know Your Enemy suburbananarchist:
The real enemy behind the untold millions of deaths inflicted by Empire are what C. Wright Mills called “Crackpot Realists”: the sane, sensible, serious people who know what needs to be done to keep the only world they know running, and just quietly do it. As C. S. Lewis put it, the greatest crimes in human history were committed by men...
Industries Find Surging Profits in Deeper Cuts →
redguard:
This seeming contradiction — falling sales and rising profits — is one reason the mood on Wall Street is so much more buoyant than in households, where pessimism runs deep and joblessness shows few signs of easing.
Many companies are focusing on cost-cutting to keep profits growing, but the benefits are mostly going to shareholders instead of the broader economy, as management...
I got spills. They're multiplying.
I still, by turns, scratch my head in puzzlement and laugh like a drain at tampon commercials, a semiotic hall of mirrors normally found only on Japanese television.
The ad industry has, over the 20-odd years since such products were allowed to be advertised on British TV, constantly tested its creative limits in finding new ways to promote products, at whose only real purpose they can only...
Analysis of Civilian Casualties in WikiLeaks... →
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Gingerbread Vulva
My Apologies
up-schist-creek:
…to those that didn’t drop me over the past six months due to inactivity and a deluge of ‘What Music I listened to this Week’ auto-posts.
Hey, at least it meant I was still alive, right? Or someone had killed and eaten me for my music collection.
Welcome back. We’ve missed you. Now stop crying and get busy with the puns.
World's worst person joins Twitter →
You know what to do.
“[London] does not believe that there exists at present sufficient legal basis...”
– British U.N. delegate Nicola Freedman regarding United Nations Resolution A/64/L.63/Rev.1, the Human Right to Water. The United States also offered its own weaselly and pathetic explanation in legalese as to why they don’t see water and sanitation as a human right. The (non-binding!) measure was...
What's the fucking point?
John Cooper Clarke: Evidently Chicken Town (The...
errorgorilla:
The fucking cops are fucking keen
To fucking keep it fucking clean
The fucking chief’s a fucking swine
Who fucking draws the fucking line
At fucking fun and fucking games
The fucking kids he fucking blames
Are nowhere to be fucking found
Anywhere in Chicken Town
The fucking train is fucking late
You fucking wait and fucking wait
You’re fucking lost and fucking found
...
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When's the Tumblr dashboard getting one of those...
Divided pavements would put the tourists into slow... →
Oxford Street’s heaving pavements could soon be turned into pedestrian “dual-carriageways” to allow office workers and residents to overtake dawdling tourists.
Plans are being drawn up for the pavements to be divided into two, with a “slow lane” next to the shops separated by a line from a “fast lane” by the road.
The idea is for window shoppers and...
It's been so hot and steamy the past couple of...
*If Blanche Dubois were a bald, middle-aged Englishman with moobs. USE YOUR IMAGINATION
themattsmith:
Sylvester : You Make Me Feel...