November 2011
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Nurses - “New Feelings” + “Trying To Reach You” (Live with Hooves on Turf)
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2012=1968? →
“Obama didn’t build a movement, he built an electoral machine,” says Marom. “If he had built a movement, he would not be where he is right now. But the fact that he was elected, that so many people came out in the streets for him, that people cried when he won, was an expression of the fact that they wanted what they thought he was, which is an alternative. He wasn’t it. He can’t deliver it. This...
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Things to Tax →
“The supercommittee was a superdud — and we should be glad. Nonetheless, at some point we’ll have to rein in budget deficits. And when we do, here’s a thought: How about making increased revenue an important part of the deal?”
- Paul Krugman
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Grimes - Oblivion (In My Room Session)
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Feels Like Home #41: Michael Griffith - Occupy Portland (intothewoods.tv)
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Parenthetical Girls - “Privilege” (Music Video)
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Milk Music: This Olympia act twist thrashing SST... →
“I don’t even like Sub Pop that much. Mudhoney suck. I really don’t like getting compared to all that. Musically, Seattle has a really trashy vibe.”
- Alex Coxen
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Decline and Fall →
“You don’t have to agree with Barack Obama on every particular, or on much at all, to admit that the spectacle of the Republican field is a reflection of the hollowness in the G.O.P. itself.”
- David Remnick
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EXCLUSIVE: Political Rhetoric Is Not Always... →
“We’re having an argument about whether doubling-down on fossil fuel extraction or promoting efficiency and renewal energy would be better economic policy. With my wonk hat on, I would rather hear the participants on both sides talk about “prosperity” rather than “jobs…”
- Matthew Yglesias
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Inequality and Bullshit →
“He is, in a word, bullshitting. Bullshitting is not the same thing as lying. It is a higher art form, which Harry Frankfurt once explored in his classic essay, “On Bullshit”:
[The] statement is grounded neither in a belief that it is true nor, as a lie must be, in a belief that it is not true. It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to...
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Oligarchy, American Style →
“Extreme concentration of income is incompatible with real democracy. Can anyone seriously deny that our political system is being warped by the influence of big money, and that the warping is getting worse as the wealth of a few grows ever larger?”
- Paul Krugman
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T Magazine: Now Playing | Parallax, the New Album... →
The Moment has an exclusive stream of the new album by Bradford Cox, the lead singer of Deerhunter.
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