lineara:

bestrooftalkever:

Alex Webb, people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net, 1979

Naco, Arizona

Via claytoncubitt

(via balibar)

Change sides at 13 poi-

heyitsnoah:

Absolutely stunning video of the Iceland volcano. Click over and watch in HD, it’s worth it.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 (by Sean Stiegemeier)

The United States is risking losing its role as a leader in space exploration with its new plan, Armstrong said, adding that he was concerned with the looming gap in American human spaceflight.

“Other nations will surely step in where we have faltered,” Armstrong said.

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SPACE.com – Neil Armstrong: Obama’s New Space Plan ‘Poorly Advised’

And to think, I thought we went to space because space is awesome, not because of some “spaceflight gap.” Gotta stay ahead of the Russkies!

For months, the administration has defended the criminal justice system as strong enough to handle terrorism cases. Mr. Holder acknowledged the abrupt shift of tone, characterizing the administration’s stance as a “new priority” and “big news” in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We’re now dealing with international terrorists,” he said, “and I think that we have to think about perhaps modifying the rules that interrogators have and somehow coming up with something that is flexible and is more consistent with the threat that we now face.”

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Attorney General Backs Miranda Limit for Terror Suspects - NYTimes.com

Maybe he got confused because he spent the weekend in a time machine going back to 2001.

My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves.

One day while he’s lying sick in bed, Cameron lets “Ferris” steal his father’s car and take the day off, and as Cameron wanders around the city, all of his interactions with Ferris and Sloane, and all the impossible hijinks, are all just played out in his head. This is part of the reason why the “three” characters can see so much of Chicago in less than one day – Cameron is alone, just imagining it all.

It isn’t until he destroys the front of the car in a fugue state does he finally get a grip and decide to confront his father, after which he imagines a final, impossible escape for Ferris and a storybook happy ending for Sloane (“He’s gonna marry me!”), the girl that Cameron knows he can never have.

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(via Dr. Frank)

I would like to give some credit to America’s yowling Rightist commentariat here. Although their own cultural phobias and America-first jingoism blind them to the actual political motives behind much anti-American militarism, they are nonetheless capable of understanding, albeit in an elementary and misguided way, that those who commit, or attempt to commit, acts of so-called terrorism are motivated by deep personal, religious, political, and ideological convictions. They misidentify these convictions, and their insistence on American purity and non-complicity in the political makeup of the world as we know it is obviously a crippling blindspot. Nonetheless, you will not find our nation’s Michael Savages laboring under the impression that Faisal Shahzad traced a neat, psychological, MFA-workshopped narrative path from bourgeois family man through financial setback through descent into depression and thus onward to Act of Desperation.

As America’s military is killing hundreds of innocent people every week–at least!–in the ordinary course of business, it stands to reason that at some point, somewhere, someone is going to try to kill some Americans in return. The only real surprise is that it happens so rarely. Shahzad was, among other things, wholly incompetent. Any good ol’ boy from Fayette County, PA could do better with a trip to the Tractor Supply Company and one jaunt over the Ohio border to Phantom Fireworks. Regardless, the fact remains. A person doesn’t build a bomb because he’s mopey. He builds it because he’s mad.

—Who Is IOZ?: Domesticity

(by kxp130)