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§1 A writing prompt “Thank you for making the effort to produce the illusion that I have a choice about this decision.” §2 Relationship advice xkcd strikes again... §3 SOFA “Nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, and nothing lasts.” §4 A tune to brighten your day Is it a gloomy
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...maybe your night...
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§1 xkcd Another winner. §2 A writing prompt “So what if they would have snubbed each other five years ago? I'll bet in another five years they won't know what they were thinking today. But they need each other now, and sometimes nothing else matters but
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§1 Things We Take for Granted It is only in the past half-century or so that every conceivable subdivision and admixture of the rainbow has been available [to painters] in off-the-shelf tubes. -- Philip Ball, Bright Earth : Art and the Invention of Color (Chicago : Univ of Chicago, 2003,
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§1 That's it! One minor irritant in what could be a truly tragic year in American political history is the return of this sort of thing. §2 “Fake It 'Til You Make It” The flaw in the advice to “fake it 'til you make it” is
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But we must go on to say that while it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man
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§1 Open up your Golden Gate… “California, Here I Come” was first recorded 100 years ago this week.
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§1 Quotation “[A] huge segment of the ‘free speech activist’ culture is just absolutely pathologically oversensitive to criticism and dissent and […] much of the ‘we hate cancel culture’ culture is consumed with telling people to shut up.”—Ken White §2 Free Mickey! This Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon welcomes Mickey
Racism
https://www.stereogum.com/2246426/grimes-says-she-is-proud-of-white-culture-complains-about-being-called-a-nazi/news/ But what IS “white culture”? “Parisian culture” I can understand. “Glaswegian culture” I can understand. “West Virginian culture” I can understand. “Bourgeois culture” I can understand. “D&D culture”
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§1 A final judgment on the year 2023 was exhausting. On to 2024!
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§1 The power of Bob Dylan If you wonder how Bob Dylan got to be such a big deal in the first place, take a listen to this performance from 1963. §2 Farewell, Evernote I have closed the free Evernote account I had used since 2012. The first strike was
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§1 Quotations “Sometimes the most interesting aspect of a scientific or cultural product is not its overt content but rather its unexamined assumptions.”—Andrew Gelman “Why would anyone go skiing when they could sit in the comfort of their own homes and break their kneecaps with a hammer?”—Dylan Moran