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NPR Fresh Air: Q: I wouldn’t want to be friends... →
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Q: I wouldn’t want to be friends with Nora, would you? Her outlook is almost unbearably grim.
A: For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus?…
April 2013
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“Probably stay out of their way. We’ve come a long way in the state of Georgia....”
– Nathan Deal on whether the state government should do something if another segregated-prom-in-twenty-fucking-THIRTEEN-type embarrassment comes to light in the future.
Yes, Governor Deal, the South has had a VERY STRONG HISTORY of folks just being able to work out all those local, “private” race...
“My problem with the “it’s part of our history” argument is two-fold: (1) The...”
– Miguel Centellas, a professor at the University of Mississippi’s Croft Institute for International Studies, explains the whole “why-that-Brad-Paisley-song-is-a-bad-idea” thing perfectly. Oh yeah, he has a great Tumblr worth a follow. (via shortformblog)
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March 2013
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