- On (Not) Having A Guardian « Ballastexistenz
“When I was nineteen years old, my psychologist told me that I was not a real adult… He also told me that I would never be allowed to make adult decisions.”
- Why I Won’t Do Business With Amazon | Jason Erik Lundberg
“Amazon is the biggest bully on the block, and is able to dictate its unfair terms to the world, and so I will no longer have anything to do with them if I can possibly help it. “
- Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously – Max Fisher – International – The Atlantic
“A friend who works in intelligence once joked that Stratfor is just The Economist a week later and several hundred times more expensive.”
- Mindless Ones » Davy Jones
Great obituary, with videos. #fb
- Why reform of House of Lords is a botch (Martin Wolf, @FinancialTimes)
“a chamber with the current limited powers, with a predominantly or even entirely elected membership, makes no sense”
- Earliest manuscript of Gospel of Mark reportedly found
A *first* *century* fragment???
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