Mike Soron

Beautiful historical retrofit. I’m reminded of a...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:20:45 -0600

Beautiful historical retrofit. I’m reminded of a particular James Bond level: any help?

Pinacoteca do Estado, SÃ£o Paulo, SP (via pedro kok)

tmblg: New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens “It’s Gay To Smoke”

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:02:44 -0600

tmblg: New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens “It’s Gay To Smoke”

andrewmcintyre: Infographic: % of Americans falling behind on...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:02:45 -0600

andrewmcintyre:

Infographic: % of Americans falling behind on their mortgage payment segmented by income from the WSJ’s “The ‘Democratization of Credit’ Is Over - Now It’s Payback Time”

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best..."

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:59:31 -0600

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”

- Dorothy Day (via ashbond)

Incredible.

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:01:03 -0600

Incredible.

David Rees, on “the townhalls”, My question: Why don’t they round up all the pin-dicked...

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:43:00 -0600

David Rees, on “the townhalls”,

My question: Why don’t they round up all the pin-dicked douchebags who feel compelled to walk around with assault weapons at political events and drop them in one of those “free speech zone” cages that lefties were trapped inside of during the RNC convention? Since when did paper-mache puppets and bad “Bush” puns pose more of a threat than fucking assault weapons, which are deliberately engineered to kill people? Could somebody in charge please stop smoking crack and handle this?

"It is part of the job to pretend to have emotions that you do not actually feel."

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:01:48 -0600

“It is part of the job to pretend to have emotions that you do not actually feel.”

- Michael Ignatief on politics, written in a mea culpa on the Iraq War

Here we go.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:46:17 -0600

Here we go.

May I recommend a movie?: MOON

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:23:13 -0600

May I recommend a movie?: MOON

Naomi Klein calls for Israeli Boycott

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:03:08 -0600

Naomi Klein calls for Israeli Boycott

Putting Government Data Online and Tim Berners-Lee

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:20:36 -0600

Putting Government Data Online and Tim Berners-Lee

May I recommend a movie?: Away We Go

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:44:49 -0600

May I recommend a movie?: Away We Go

Helen Thomas v. Obama

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:29:54 -0600

CNN: Over the weekend, we saw a shocking video of this woman, Neda, who had been shot in the chest and bled to death... What's your reaction?

THE PRESIDENT: It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. And I think that anybody who sees it knows that there's something fundamentally unjust about that... I have concern about how peaceful demonstrators and people who want their votes counted may be stifled from expressing those concerns. I think, as I said before, there are certain international norms of freedom of speech, freedom of expression --

MOTHERFUCKIN' HELEN THOMAS: Then why won't you allow the photos --

THE PRESIDENT: Hold on a second, Helen. That's a different question. (Laughter.) [Filler] ... All right. Thank you, guys.

"…what follows is a quote from a New York Times article: the delay in Twitter’s maintenance reveals..."

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:05:35 -0600

“…what follows is a quote from a New York Times article: the delay in Twitter’s maintenance reveals “the recognition by the United States government that an Internet blogging service that did not exist four years ago has the potential to change history in an ancient Islamic country”. If only life was that simple, my dear friends at the New York Times: blogging services do not change history, not even if the State Department asks them; people do.”

- A different take on the State Department’s Twitter request by Evgeny Morozov (via tylersoron)

Goldman Sachs is set to make a record bonus payout this year. [Guardian] David Williams, an...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:43:46 -0600

Goldman Sachs is set to make a record bonus payout this year. [Guardian]

David Williams, an investment banking analyst at Fox Pitt Kelton, said: “This year is shaping up to be the best year ever for investment banks, or at least those that have emerged relatively unscathed from the credit crisis.

“These banks are intermediaries in the bond markets where governments and companies are raising billions of pounds of new money. There is also a lack of competition that means they can charge huge sums for doing business.”

Last week, the firm predicted that President Barack Obama’s government could issue $3.25tn of debt before September, almost four times last year’s sum. Goldman, a prime broker of US government bonds, is expected to make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from selling and dealing in the bonds.

Have any plans for October 24th? [Global Climate Action]

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:11:04 -0600

Have any plans for October 24th? [Global Climate Action]

On Real Freedom: Remembering David Foster Wallace

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:44:49 -0600

On Real Freedom: Remembering David Foster Wallace

"Seeing some of these people online turning their profile pictures green “for Iran” makes me want to..."

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:28:06 -0600

“Seeing some of these people online turning their profile pictures green “for Iran” makes me want to create a Facebook and Twitter application that turns profile pictures blood red, in solidarity with all of the Afghans and Iraqis and Pakistanis being killed by US wars today; wars that people in the US failed to stop and whose representatives continue to fund to the tune of $100s of billions.”

- Jeremy Scahill

booktumbling: libraryland: iheartmyart: Hunter S. Thompson,...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:55:24 -0600

booktumbling: libraryland: iheartmyart:

Hunter S. Thompson, Self Portrait (Puerto Rico), c 1960s

Photo

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:21:46 -0600