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I would really like to meet Bill Murray. Within the first minute I would probably tell him we had the same birthday, we both love Illinois basketball, and how I watched them film the truck going off the cliff for Groundhogs Day. Then he would probably walk quickly away.
Posted on May 26, 2012 with 3 notes ()
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I had a borrowed motorcycle that I ran up on [legendary Nashville songwriter] Harlan Howard’s porch. I was a little bit inebriated. So I kinda knocked on his door with my front wheel, and he comes to the door, and I said, “God dang, are you Harlan
Howard?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Well, I am Billy Joe Shaver, and I’m the greatest songwriter that ever lived.Billy Joe Shaver Texas Monthly -
Regarding murder, German law long drew a bizarre distinction between perpetrator (Täter) and accessory (Gehilfe). The physical act of killing—pulling the trigger, for instance—did not itself guarantee designation as a perpetrator. Only if one killed, or authorized killing, out of base motives and demonstrated “individual initiative” in doing so did one qualify. In effect, the German penal code made the Holocaust, insofar as it represented murder, the work of only three men—Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich—and transformed every death-camp functionary into a mere accessory. To be found guilty as a perpetrator, a camp official had to have been an Exzeßtäter, one who killed without orders to do so; or, to put it another way, one who killed in violation of the law in effect under the Nazis. In judging those who operated the machinery of death, postwar German courts actually employed SS standards of legality, designating as perpetrators only those individuals who could have been condemned by the SS’s own tribunals.
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The only people you have to think twice about lying to are yourself and God; not the media.
Bob DylanPosted on March 13, 2012 with 5 notes ()
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Posted on March 13, 2012 via KILIAN ENG / DW DESIGN with 4,320 notes ()
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By making it an end in and of itself, awareness stands in for, and maybe even displaces, specific solutions to these very complicated problems. Campaigns that focus on bracelets and social media absorb resources that could go toward more effective advocacy, and take up rhetorical space that could be used to develop more effective advocacy. How do we go from raising awareness about LRA violence to actually stopping it? What’s the mechanism of transforming YouTube page views into a mediated political settlement? For all the excitement around awareness as an end in itself, one could be forgiven for forming the impression that there might be a “Stop Atrocity” button blanketed in dust in the basement of the White House, awaiting the moment when the tide of awareness reaches the Oval Office.
Posted on March 10, 2012 with 1 note ()
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Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ by Loretta Lynn.
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I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash
I love Hank Williams but he has never taught me how to live, just sang songs that explained what I was feeling. Johnny Cash sang songs that helped teach me to be a man. Happy 80th, Mr. Cash, you are the original badass.
Posted on February 27, 2012 with 2 notes ()
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Ocean trench: Take a dive 11,000m down
An interactive graphic illustrating the depths of ocean trenches. This is awesome. You really want to click this link.
up front there oughta be a man in black.
