22 April, 2017

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The Cranberries: No Need To Argue Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
–Ovid

15 April, 2017

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Billy Bragg: Back to Basics Phil Klay: Redeployment

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
–Kurt Vonnegut

9 April, 2017

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Ben Harper: Both Sides of the Gun George Saunders: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
–Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

1 April, 2017

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FX, Tom Hardy, Edward Hardy and Steven Knight: Taboo George Packer: The Unwinding

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
–Elie Wiesel

26 March, 2017

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Amp Fiddler: Waltz of a Ghetto Fly Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near

“Everything is perfect as is.”
–My new mantra

18 March, 2017

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Amadou & Mariam: Sou Ni Tile J. D. Vance: Hillbilly Elegy

“It all basically comes down to do you want to fuck them or not.”
–A close Hollywood friend/producer, who’s a very good guy

11 March, 2017

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Endemol UK, Charlie Brooker: Black Mirror Season 4 Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth

“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
–A. Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist.