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I haven’t yet read the book, but I love this quote:<\/p>\n
Waking up from the dream is the worst part. It always takes a few seconds. It’s like… suppose you were underwater and naked and running out of air, deep down where all the light’s gone, and you have to come up for air. And you spend every last precious ounce of your life’s energy in the effort to rise to the surface and take that badly needed breath, and just as your head breaks from the water you remember, too late, to your horror, that you are a fish.<\/p>\n
–Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I also adore without reservation the cover design.<\/a><\/p>\n
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- Speaking of book cover design, the “Randomize” (or, perhaps, “Ronandimze” or “Rnoizadme”) function of the book cover archive<\/a> is a very effective time-waster, if you’re in the market for such a thing.<\/li>\n
- Gigposters <\/a>is another good time-waster for me.<\/li>\n
- Intersections in undocumented immigrant and LGBT communities<\/a><\/li>\n
- Cowen, Yglesias, Wilkinson, Douthat, Continetti, Caplan, Kling \u2014 who will win the Top Ten Influential Books Game?<\/a><\/li>\n
- An informal survey of race and gender representation on children’s book covers<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- I enjoyed this Colbert Report interview with dissident conservative David Frum<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Was the health care reform bill the best-covered news story, ever<\/a>?<\/li>\n
- Kathleen Parker thinks<\/a> that southern white men who own 1,500 acre estates are “ordinary Americans.”<\/li>\n
- It completely sucks<\/a> that being polite to cops isn’t just ordinary courtesy, it’s mandatory and on occasion enforceable by electric shock torture.<\/li>\n
- Political affiliation and TV Watching<\/a>. The graphs here are just fascinating. I had no idea that pro basketball was watched so disproportionately by Democrats, for example. (I can’t help but wonder if race is involved<\/a> — although there are plenty of non-white athletes in football, aren’t there?) And the most Republican sport isn’t Nascar, but golf.<\/li>\n
- What gets left out of Western discussions of Afghan and Pakistani women<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Speaking of graphs, this post on partisan differences<\/a> by age groups at OKCupid is interesting, although I think some of their leaps are dubious. (Especially dubious, as they admit in the post, is talking about age differences as if they represent the life cycle of a single person.) Nice graphs, though.<\/li>\n
- More discussion of those polls of the zany things Tea Partiers believe<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Trans teen kicked out of high school after single day<\/a>. What the fuck is wrong with school administrators there?<\/li>\n
- HYDRA in Plain Sight<\/a>. So what happens to those chopped-off hydra heads?<\/li>\n
- Sexism in coverage of female and male suicide bombers<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- How a citizen’s letter makes it through a zillion levels of bureaucracy to be read by the President.<\/a> Likely to be enjoyed by those who like Obama, sneered at by those who don’t.<\/li>\n
- In the face of racism, distress depends on one’s coping method<\/a><\/li>\n
- How race hurt Obama in the Democratic primaries<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Obama’s Moderate Health Care Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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