Robbing from the Poor (Writer) “Robin Hood” opens a year late, with a Tomatometer rating of 44% and it is not expected to unseat “Iron Man 2” as #1 film over the weekend. Oh, and they disliked it at Cannes. Oh, and the budget is rumored to be $250 million and maybe even more. Would […]
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Robbing from the Poor (Writer)
Robbing from the Poor (Writer) “Robin Hood” opens a year late, with a Tomatometer rating of 44% and it is not expected to unseat “Iron Man 2” as #1 film over the weekend. Oh, and they disliked it at Cannes. Oh, and the budget is rumored to be $250 million and maybe even more. Would […]
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Travis the Menace
Travis the Menace Virtually everyone made light of the escapade downtown. The state Department of Environmental Protection was aware of what happened, and also that the Herolds were in violation of a new statute that required a permit to keep a primate over 50 pounds. But they determined that pressing any action would amount to […]
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Travis the Menace
Travis the Menace Virtually everyone made light of the escapade downtown. The state Department of Environmental Protection was aware of what happened, and also that the Herolds were in violation of a new statute that required a permit to keep a primate over 50 pounds. But they determined that pressing any action would amount to […]
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Mike Bloomberg Will Save Us from Ourselves If Only We Let Him
Mike Bloomberg Will Save Us from Ourselves If Only We Let Him Mike Bloomberg has become important because he represents a great American dream, not the one about owning a home or becoming more successful than your father but the one beneath all of those, the foundational American dream — the dream of freedom from […]
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Meet the Foreskin Restoration Movement
Meet the Foreskin Restoration Movement For Matt, the worst thing about his restoration adventure was the influence the people on the Internet had on him. When he told the story of his two re-circumcisions online, others in the community accused him of lying. “They said how evil circumcision is. Some said they hated their parents […]
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Jared Keller: Cities and Urban Life: A #Longreads #List
jaredbkeller: I often find that urbanism and urban living are overly romanticized, more often by citydwellers themselves: Stumbling through concrete caravans dripping with mystique, a day-to-day narrative of tempered chaos, or an odd catharsis as told through the lens of sidewalk meet-cute. I often long for life closer to the wilderness, clogged by forests and dirty roads, but […]
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Does Football Have a Future? The NFL and the Concussion Crisis
Does Football Have a Future? The NFL and the Concussion Crisis “In the past, it was a style of ball that was three yards and a cloud of dust, so you didn’t see too many of these big hits, because there wasn’t so much space between players,” the Steelers’ Troy Polamalu said. “I mean, with […]
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maria bustillos: my #longreads #list : WikiLeaks
maria bustillos: my #longreads #list : WikiLeaks dorkismo: Here is my entry for the #longreads #list: five essential things to read about WikiLeaks. Julian Assange’s 2006 essays, “State and Terrorist Conspiracies” and “Conspiracies as Governance”, which contextualize the author’s efforts better than any interview or article has yet done. 3,164 words:…
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Back to the Future with Peter Thiel
Back to the Future with Peter Thiel One important difference between the housing bubble and the education bubble is that there was sort of a class aspect to the housing bubble: upper-middle-class people in the U.S. tend to be invested in equities, and middle-class people tend to be invested in housing, so there was a […]