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Former drone operator says “I became a sociopath,” regrets 1626 assassinations. (via Juan Cole)
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Paula Deen Wants to Have Black Slaves at Her Southern Dinner Party - COLORLINES
Has she officially lost her mind? Nope. She’s just being honest.
Paula Deen can eat a bowl of butter sticks.
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Nick Admussen on the infinite complexity of Lady Su’s Star Gauge poem:
The poems are written in four different meters (synonymous, in classical poetry, with line lengths), they jump from line to line, they change direction. It’s hard to be sure if you’re following a path through the piece that was intended for interpretation, or if you’re parsing a sentence that was created by your own wandering.
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As Mark Mazzetti and Jeremy Scahill show, one of the greatest challenges to restricting drones is that they permit the United States to engage in war without experiencing war’s hardships firsthand. A war that brings little risk to the homeland or its citizens—including those in the armed forces—does not elicit much protest, as polling on the use of drones against foreign targets has consistently shown. Whereas the public would likely demand a real strategy for completing a war in which its own sons and daughters are dying, the urgency of such demands is tempered in a drone war, providing cover for yet more improvisational fighting.
John Hafetz, “War Without Strategy: American Still Doesn’t Have a Plan to Fight Terrorism”
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Song of Upbringing
Translated from the Japanese by Christian Nagle
I
infancy
the snow that fell on me
was like floss silk
childhood
the snow that fell on me
was like sleet
seventeen to nineteen
the snow that fell on me
dropped like hail
twenty to twenty-two
the snow that fell on me
seemed like balls of ice
twenty-three
the snow that fell on me
looked like a blizzard
twenty-four
the snow that fell on me
became so mournful
II
the snow that falls on me
falls like petals
when the burning firewood makes a noise
and the frozen sky darkens
the snow that fell on me
so delicate and lovely
fell reaching out a hand
the snow that fell on me
was like tears
that sink into a burning forehead
to the snow that fell on me
I offered heartfelt thanks and prayed to God
that I would live a long life
the snow that fell on me
was so chaste
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The Patriot Act inverts the constitutional requirement that people’s lives be private and the work of government officials be public; it instead crafts a set of conditions in which our inner lives become transparent and the workings of the government become opaque. Either one of these outcomes would imperil democracy; together they not only injure the country but also cut off the avenues of repair.Elaine Scarry on how the Patriot Act inverts the Constitution
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Surprise: the hottest place in the country right now is … Alaska.
Talkeetna, Alaska hit an all-time high of 96 F.
We’re so screwed.
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cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.
Why do you need feminism?
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Infinite sriracha.
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“Jim Crow is alive and it’s dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.”— Myrlie Evers-Williams (via msnbc)
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Painting Syria’s Landscape
Via SyriaDeeply:
[Tammam] Azzam achieved more fame than nearly any other Syrian...
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