June 2012
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Lena Dunham Remembers Nora Ephron →
sarakatherine:
“You can’t meet someone until you’ve become what you’re becoming.”
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““American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever...”
– Nora Ephron’s Commencement Address | Huffington Post
via kateoplis
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“Our argument took romance out of the equation. As we explained it, Americans...”
– Jessica Bennett twists the knife: Modern Love - A Case For Marriage
Do we need marriage because it makes it logistically more difficult for the other person to leave? Do you need a piece of paper to prove you’re not going to run out quite as quickly?
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“Because a shopping addiction is how I have avoided alcoholism thus far.”
– Kelsium, putting into words a phenomenon that I have been trying to put into words for a while.
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“I hope you’ll make mistakes. If you’re making mistakes, it means...”
– Neil Gamin’s keynote address at University of the Arts.
Can you guys tell that I spend the month of June reading commencement addresses?
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Diner warned after protesting end of... →
A 53-year-old Mequon man was warned for disorderly conduct after being told the Thiensville restaurant at which he was dining ran out of fish for its all-you-can-eat fish fry last week.
According to the police report:
The man had already consumed 12 pieces of fish around 7:40 p.m. Friday when informed the restaurant had run out and could not substitute any other fish.
The man then refused to...
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“All of this is as it should be, because none of you is special.
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– From Wellesley High School English teacher David McCullough, Jr.’s faculty speech to the Class of 2012. I love commencement speeches, especially when they deny exceptionalism.
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“The situation “scares the hell out of me,” said one author of the paper, James...”
– Are We Nearing a Planetary Boundary? The earth could be nearing a point at which sweeping environmental changes, possibly including mass extinctions, would undermine human welfare, 22 prominent biologists and ecologists warned on Wednesday.
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Michael Lewis' Princeton University's 2012... →
I now live in Berkeley, California. A few years ago, just a few blocks from my home, a pair of researchers in the Cal psychology department staged an experiment. They began by grabbing students, as lab rats. Then they broke the students into teams, segregated by sex. Three men, or three women, per team. Then they put these teams of three into a room, and arbitrarily assigned one of the three to...
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“This isn’t just false humility. It’s false humility with a point. My...”
– Michael Lewis : Princeton University’s 2012 Baccalaureate Remarks
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This is what I call "having a hobby."
luckypaperstars:
What kind of peculiar, modern-day vanity is it to read two year old entries from your own blog and wonder if you used to be funnier when you had lower self-esteem?
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“When you disrespect Nicki Minaj — and I don’t care if it was in front of...”
– Nicki Minaj, discussing the Hot 97 Summer Jam situation with Funkmaster Flex.
The Five Best Moments from Nicki Minaj’s Hot 97 Rebuttal
Nicki Minaj does an excellent job of speaking to her own importance and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t need us to do it for her.
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10 Legitimate Reasons Why You Are Not Married →
I feel so affirmed I can barely stand it.
1. You are focused on your career.
And you are not going to apologize for it. Some people call this being a “bitch,” because you are a lady and you have a job that you might be more focused on than smiling pretty and making sure you don’t intimidate Mr. Right. Most of us just call this being alive in 2012 (you know the time the economy tanked and we had to...
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The War Against Youth →
Everyone currently emerging into the workplace will be economically scarred for life by the misfortune of their timing. The initial wage loss for a worker emerging in a bad economy is 6 to 7 percent for every 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, which means a twenty-one-year-old starting a job today makes about 24 percent less than he or she would have five years ago. After...
“Even America, traditionally a beneficiary of European woes, seems to have turned...”
– Joel Kotkin: Europe and America’s Screwed Generation
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“Well, maybe you’ve just done it. By coming here. Maybe choosing this...”
– Robert Krulwich - The Chumbawamba Principle: A Commencement Address
“You may be a singular person, but your success will always be plural.”
This is a good commencement address.
“It is not due “in part” to how men and women are socialized. It is...”
– Lindy West, “Hey, Men, I’m Funnier Than You.”
Please enjoy the official last-ever article I read about whether or not women are funny, and why. Please read the whole article. 