January 2010
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“A difference that makes no difference, is no...
One of the things that enables once-democratic systems to be subverted into tyrannies is the acceptance of the idea that an explanation is at least as good as a solution to a grievance.
monkeycycle_org is a casual
You don’t take this Twitter stuff too...
– klout.com summary of me on Twitter.
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Elephants are surprisingly emotional. They have funerals.
So do crows....
– OH - Gastropub
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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.Niels Bohr
– @InBonobo
private coded idiologues
for a month, collect every little scrap of paper on which you write a grocery list or a reminder note to yourself or a rough draft of a letter or something.
at the end of the month, see if there isn’t something weirder. we all write banal missives to ourselves in our own private coded idiologues.
Power is not a means; it is an end…The object of persecution is...
– George Orwell — 1984
In our opinion, the greatest failure of organized religion is its historical...
– http://www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm: