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Emmet Gowin

Each generation must create its own reality and find its own identity. If today’s young women want to be passive wards of the state, then that is their self-stultifying choice. One cannot impose a dynamic, expansive, metaphysical vision of existence on timid minds who crave the miniature, like porcelain bibelots of frogs and sparrows. My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself. We need more dissent and less dogma.

Christmas show with Aimee Mann, Ted Leo, John Roderick, Jonathan Coulton & Liz Phair.

Correction: December 9, 2015
An earlier version of this column referred incorrectly to a copy of The New York Times that Erick Erickson said he shot holes in. He said he obtained the copy, not that he purchased it.

—The Internet’s Loop of Action and Reaction Is Worsening - NYTimes.com

webkistinstitute:

“oldweb.today – which, amazingly, is an actual URL that works – lets you run ancient web browsers in your browser, but instead of pointing those old browsers at anachronistically modern versions of those pages, it pulls the correspondingly-old pages out of the Wayback Machine.”

–via jwz

There are policies I can imagine passing the “Will this be used against the poor?” test. Some forms of gun buybacks and turn-in amnesties, for example. Possibly some policies targeting gun manufacturers? But that’s not what we’re going to get–or if we do get them, they’ll be enmeshed in broad expansions of surveillance and punishment. “Like the War on Drugs, but for guns” is not an inspiring image.

—Eve Tushnet: In the Year of the Dragon