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You have but to take a peek in the comments section below this column, any column, any article on this or any news site whatsoever, to see just how mean and nasty we have become. It does not matter what the piece might be about. Obama’s speech. High speed rail. Popular dog breeds. Your grandmother’s cookies. The anonymous comments section of any major media site or popular blog will be so crammed with bile and bickering, accusation and pule, hatred and sneer you can’t help but feel violently disappointed by the shocking lack of basic human kindness and respect, much less a sense of positivism or perspective.
Mark Morford, “Why are you so terribly disappointing?”
Howard Zinn, Historian Who Challenged Status Quo, Dies at 87
Rest in peace, and thank you.
MUNIFAIL
Didn’t get to work on time today because of a MUNI breakdown? Tweet Mayor Gavin Newsom with this handy website! (via njudah)
Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants
Regrettably, there is no photograph.
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.
Vincent van Gogh
Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”. (via ‘Oral sex’ definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools | Books | guardian.co.uk)
French report calls for veil ban: “A French parliamentary panel has called for a ban on Muslim women wearing the full Islamic veil in public institutions, describing the dress as an ’unacceptable’ challenge to French values.” (via Al Jazeera)
