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The uselessness of art makes any spending on it especially potent: buying a yacht is a tiny bit like buying a rowboat, and so retains a taint of practicality, but buying a great Picasso is like no other spending. Why Is Art So Damned Expensive? – The Daily Beast
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I don’t want to say I have the exact answers. As I paced the track in prison, I started thinking these things through. One thing I know from experience is the devil is in the language, the devil is in the details. I have a 30,000-foot analysis of these things. I do have some specific…
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nevver: Occupy Everything
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How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street wilwheaton: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about…
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ollymoss: I am a graphic designer and in my contract it says that I have to make bad jokes about typography.
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Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living
Don’t give up the day job – how artists make a living austinkleon: …for artists without a lucky early break, rich parents or benefactors, a day job is often the only way to survive. It needn’t mean that fame and fortune aren’t just around the corner: Joy Division’s Ian Curtis worked in an unemployment office…
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Notes on Being an Instructor In the role of the instructor, due to your own conceit there is much damage that you can do to a student. At the same time, due to your own sense of charity, there are many possibilities that you can open for the student. In the former case, it is…
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The Media’s Blackout Of The National Defense Authorization Act Is Shameful
The Media’s Blackout Of The National Defense Authorization Act Is Shameful The broadcast media’s ignorance and unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the US homeland as a “battlefield” and makes US citizens subject to military apprehension and detainment for life without access to a trial…
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How Frank Luntz is teaching Republicans to talk about Occupy Wall Street
How Frank Luntz is teaching Republicans to talk about Occupy Wall Street austinkleon: The evil DoubleSpeak genius Frank Luntz is up to his old tricks: 1. Don’t say ‘capitalism.’2. Don’t say that the government ‘taxes the rich.’ Instead, tell them that the government ‘takes from the rich.’3. Republicans should forget about winning the battle over…
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Riley Palmer, a second grader at City and Country, said that creating a series of Brooklyn Bridges, each about three feet tall, helped her class understand what it had been like for the original builders. “There is so much you can do with blocks,” Riley said. “You can stagger them. You can stack them. It’s…