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I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor…
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On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009
To the dumb question “Why me?” the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not? -Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
Reviewing familiar principles and maxims in the face of mortal illness, Christopher Hitchens has found one of them increasingly ridiculous: “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Oh, really? Take the case of the philosopher to whom that line is usually attributed, Friedrich Nietzsche, who lost his mind to what was probably syphilis. Or America’s homegrown philosopher Sidney Hook, who survived a stroke and wished he hadn’t. Or, indeed, the author, viciously weakened by the very medicine that is keeping him alive.
Christopher Hitchens Takes on Nietzsche: Am I Really Stronger?
UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident, Four Perspectives (by waxpancake)
Creepy Google Street View of the Day
Travelling through Los Hovos, Mexico? Keep an eye out for some Mexican Cartel members, apparently on their way to a costume party, who might block your path. Zoom in to see their guns.
Can you imagine being the Google Street View guy driving through this road block? “Don’t mind me…just got tons of cameras rigged to this van. No biggie.”
Check it out HERE
On the set of Dau. Kharkov, Ukraine, June 2010.
All photos by Sergei Maximishin. I’ll leave them up here unless/until anyone involved objects to it. The story itself is here.
Trials and tribulations of a 90s man
(Source: yggdrasill, via absurdreasoning)
