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John Green's tumblr: I Didn't Build That
So I own or co-own a few businesses that have experienced varying degrees of success. I am in the educational video business, and the book-writing business, and the merchandise distribution business, and the conference running business, and the making YouTube videos with my brother…
This is required reading for Libertarians and anyone taking the GOP’s “I Built It” campaign seriously. Don’t worry, it’s short.
“But my best shot in fraught discussions is try to remember that actions rooted in love are the most practical tool we have. It’s a position of extraordinary resilience, too, because it doesn’t rely on the back and forth of an exchange of blows. It’s steady, unexpected, and weirdly difficult to defend against—the rhetorical equivalent of stepping inside someone’s guard. And it can’t be faked.”
“This is the best time in history to be a creative person, because all you need is an idea and a lot of hard work. You don’t have to go impress one person who is a gatekeeper; you just have to be awesome in your own way, and get your creation in front of an audience. The old media Empire doesn’t know how to adapt to this, which is one of the reasons I believe they are trying to pass laws to crush the rebels, instead of adapting to make the revolution unnecessary.”
Working “2nd Watch” With Wil Wheaton « Nerdist (via wilwheaton)
Amen!
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“Fascism doesn’t go away. It waits for optimum breeding conditions, like a virus in deep tissue. It must not be forgotten, and it must be guarded against constantly. We don’t have the right to act surprised when its sick bloom again mars our fields.”
A Disappearing Town In The Shadow Of Big Coal : The Picture Show : NPR
That a town named Cheshire, Ohio would disappear seems like a tall tale our grandchildren will never believe.
Columbus Rides: One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss [grist]
“Can you hate them for their small-mindedness, for their savage insistence that they’re God’s chosen people on Earth, despite every bit of evidence to the contrary? Of course you can. You can hate a mad dog for trying to bite you. But you’re not human if you don’t feel pity, too…even though they’ll hate you twice as hard for pitying them. They don’t want you or need you, and you don’t need them. But we all have to live in this country together.”
That “Banksy on advertising” excerpt the whole internet swooned over last week was mostly plagiarized from a cool 1999 essay.
Oh, the irony. Click through and make sure Sean Tejaratchi gets the audience he deserves.
I thought the quote looked really familiar, so did some digging online, but couldn’t find the original source. In retrospect, I should have checked my own bookshelf.
Memo to myself: Not everything I’ve read is online.
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Go Go RocketParty: Dear haters, I am openly questioning your patriotism. I think you hate...
Dear haters, I am openly questioning your patriotism. I think you hate gays, Obama, black people, poor people, all of us, women, atheists and agnostics, Latinos, Muslims, Liberals, all of us, I think you hate every one who isn’t exactly like you, and I think you hate us more than you love your country. I think you hate gay soldiers more than you want America to win its wars.
I’m stealing this, because it’s properly confrontational. My usual argument usually ends up making me sound like a hippy, so this will do nicely.
