“If there’s anything I’ve learned about politics it’s this: as soon as you conclude the other guys are complete idiots and intentionally doing evil things, immediately stop – because something is wrong. Your BS detector should be going off like a fire alarm.”
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Remember: Nuclear Detonations, 1945-1998
One last re-watch of The Polar Express before… Mama and Poppa perform elven magic
The Death of the Rude Press
“In the elite press—on cable news, in newspaper opinion sections—you can say the most monstrous things imaginable, as long your language is polite. What you can’t do is rudely express a desire for a more just world…” “…If your local media has no place for people who voice contempt for your city’s police chief, say, or your state’s attorney general, or the publisher of your city’s largest newspaper, all of those people will feel more comfortable in abusing their power.
“It is expected that work of all kinds will be generally suspended, and that the wage workers of the whole city will enjoy the holiday.”
Minneapolis Tribune, 1894
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A music blog with the tagline: Your resource for all things shoegaze and dream pop
Science Museum of Minnesota
I still love dinosaurs!
Rhone said it better than I was going to:
If you are Minnesotan, you will nod knowingly.
Lumiere Brothers footage of Paris, late 19th century