RICK PERRY CONTROVERSY: Sacramento Bee’s JACK OHMAN ‘stunned’ by governor’s response to his hot-button cartoon - Comic Riffs - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/rick-perry-controversy-sacramento-bees-jack-ohman-stunned-by-governors-response-to-his-hot-button-cartoon/2013/04/29/3e9245ca-b116-11e2-baf7-5bc2a9dc6f44_blog.html

The Texas chemical plant had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006. That's seven years ago. You may have read in the news that Gov. Perry, during his business recruiting trips to California and Illinois, generally described his state as free from high taxes and burdensome regulation. One of the burdensome regulations he neglected to mention was the fact that his state hadn't really gotten around to checking out that fertilizer plant

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Article: This Is the First World Wide Web Page of All Time

This Is the First World Wide Web Page of All Time
http://news.yahoo.com/first-world-wide-page-time-134104595.html

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THE MAGNETIC MONSTER | Films In Review

http://www.filmsinreview.com/2012/02/06/the-magnetic-monster/

"In nuclear research, there is no room for lone wolves."

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Simple, Satisfying Raw Food Recipes | The Rawtarian

http://www.therawtarian.com/


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How to debunk George W. Bush’s attempts at revisionism - Salon.com

How to debunk George W. Bush’s attempts at revisionism - Salon.com:

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Free Online Fundraising. Raise Money Online. - YouCaring.com

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SANS TOI

It’s been a long weekend
Without you.
Time has telescoped.
Every second has flexed its muscles
Intimidating me with its presence.

Still, you’re home this afternoon.
I’ve got to make the empty bed,
Hoover the food-stained rugs,
Wash the dirty dishes
And generally tidy up.
And just for once, just this once
It will be truly a labor of love.

Everyone, everything was talking about love
One day, it just had to happen to me
 
I waited, I expected you
I hoped, I looked for you
 
But good heavens, you existed
You were the adventure, and now I understand
 
Without you, what is being free good for?
Without you, tell me, why do we need to live?

Together we have
salted sweet hours, made the years rewind,
eaten all the ripened heart of life,
and made a luscious pickle of the rind.

(thanks to Simon R. Gladdish, Anne Grégory and Isak Dinesen)

Sans Toi Cléo5à7 - YouTube

Sans Toi Cléo5à7 - YouTube:

Open thread: What are your favourite love poems? | Books | guardian.co.uk

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell : The Poetry Foundation

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell : The Poetry Foundation: "The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
       Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run."

'via Blog this'

Valentine - John Fuller

Valentine - John Fuller: "The things about you I appreciate may seem indelicate:
I’d like to find you in the shower
And chase the soap for half an hour. "

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Love after Love -- Derek Walcott

Love after Love -- Derek Walcott: "Love after Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here.  Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine.  Give bread.  Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit.  Feast on your life.
 "

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Godlike Great Programmers: The Scientists Arguing for Religious Belief : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/schmidhuber-eagleman-science-religion-artificial-intelligence.html?mobify=0


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Ruffwear Web Master™ - Supportive, Multi-Use Dog Harness

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Brezhnev: A State of Boredom | clivejames.com

http://www.clivejames.com/pieces/shadows/brezhnev

Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead.

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Aubade - Philip Larkin

http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/philip-larkin/aubade/

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anasthetic from which none come round.

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Goodreads | Quotes About Martin Amis (9 quotes)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/martin-amis?auto_login_attempted=true

Simple pleasures you may say, but linguistic sinew is acquired in this fashion and he would not dump a trope until he had chewed all the flesh and pulp of it and was left only with pith and pips

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Unweaving the Rainbow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unweaving_the_Rainbow#Opening_lines

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people
are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The
potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in
fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats,
scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of
possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of
actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I,
in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the
lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable
return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never
stirred?"
Richard Dawkins
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Quotes about Libraries and Democracy | American Library Association

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/officers/past/kranich/demo/quotes

"Libraries are directly and immediately involved in the conflict which divides the world, and for two reasons; first, because they are essential to the functioning of a democratic society; second, because the contemporary conflict touches the integrity of scholarship, the freedom of the mind, and even the survival of culture, and libraries are the great symbols of the freedom of the mind." —Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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