March 2011
21 posts
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the...”
– César Chávez (via crookedindifference)
Twitter / Longreads: "The Acid Sea." E. Kolbert... →
For some reason this concerns me far more than other climate change issues.
If you care about journalism, this is your morning... →
Why Do We Keep Falling For O’Keefe’s Smear Jobs?
motherjones:
Really.
Austra - Lose It
mu-sique:
Se acuerdan de “Beat and Pulse”? Pues el nuevo sencillo del trio de Toronto, Austra, se llama “Lose It”. Acá lo dejo, enjoy.
♩ Austra - Lose It
extra:
♩ Austra - Beat and Pulse
Life is
a long
exploration
into the nuances of
connection.
Typo
It’s a poetic typo when “loose” is used when someone wants to write “lose.” No longer a loss, but a letting go.
“I think differently about disappointment: I don’t think our goal should be to...”
– On Expectations (And A Writer’s Lack Of Same) | The Awl
“The most vocal factions of leadership of Evangelicalism have increasingly been...”
– Tony Campolo
Red Letter Christians » Love Wins: A New Split in Protestant Evangelicalism
Via Rachel Held Evans
“Whatever is received is received according to the mode [of] its receiver. Our...”
– Ron Rolheiser - Speaker, Columnist and Author
“Aggregation” can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one...”
– Bill Keller
All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate - NYTimes.com
Via washingtonpoststyle.tumblr.com
“It was something to keep me occupied during a deployment,” Almy says....”
– Kandahar’s Combat Knitters use yarn and needles as weapons of self-preservation
“…[A]s it turned out, starting formal schooling at a very early age turned...”
– The Longevity Project: Decades of Data Reveal Paths to Long Life - Veronique Greenwood - Life - The Atlantic
“Sister Marie-Daniel, 86, and Sister Saint-Denis, 82, fled their nunnery two...”
– Two nuns go on run over threat to send them to retirement home - Telegraph
(July 2010)
“Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.”
– Matthew 11:28-30
Rachel Held Evans | Burned out on religion?
10102323454577 is the smallest 14-digit prime... →
“Self-improvement culture in general has the contradictory effect of undermining...”
– Eat, Pray, Spend | Bitch Media
Dr. Micki McGee, a sociologist and cultural critic at Fordham University and the author of Self-Help, Inc: Makeover Culture in American Life. 