“The Sunday shows were filled with politicians, mainly Democrats like Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, demanding stronger gun control while supporters of gun rights were noticeably absent. David Gregory, the moderator of “Meet the Press,” said his show invited 31 senators who support gun rights to appear on Sunday. “We had no takers,” he said.
The National Rifle Association’s headquarters was closed Sunday and a spokesman could not be reached. A spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican minority leader, said he had no comment, while Representative Eric Cantor, the Republican House majority leader, could not be reached.”
Cowards.
“I’ve never heard of Cincinnati. Is it near Bradley University?”
theparisreview:
“The ancients are right: the dear old human experience is a singular, difficult, shadowed, brilliant experience that does not resolve into being comfortable in the world. The valley of the shadow is part of that, and you are depriving yourself if you do not experience what humankind has experienced, including doubt and sorrow. We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of this, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.” —Marilynne Robinson.
These players are so young, everything they do is a learning experience. I mean everything. How to travel, how to eat, how to sleep, how to practice and especially how to deal with this kind of big-time environment. From my courtside seat at the Dome, I noticed a lot of quizzical glances and confused looks on the Wildcats’ faces. But that’s okay. That’s what learning looks like.
To encourage work-life balance, Volkswagen shuts off mobile email in Germany 30 minutes after employees’ shifts end and turns it back on 30 minutes before their next shift starts.
We seldom know what we’re hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.
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Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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wnyc:
In the newest Vogue. Greatest correction ever? (h/t buzzfeed)
-Jody, BL Show-
How inappropriate!” she cried. “How wrong! That woman is a grownup, and you are a child. Why would she do this?” She told me to write a levelheaded query about it to my ex-boyfriend, Noah. I did as I was told. A model of equanimity, I forwarded the message to him with the heading “What the f— is this s—?
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“Memories of an elusive boyfriend,” by Lena Dunham, The New Yorker
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Planning is for the world’s great cities, for Paris, London and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an Anerican city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
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Middlesex, by Jeffery Eugenides
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It’s kind of a fugue state, anyway, early sex. Before the routine sets in, or the love. Back when the groping is largely anonymous. Sandbox sex. It starts in the teens and lasts until twenty or twenty-one. It’s all about learning to share. It’s about sharing your toys.
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Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
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