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There are a lot of different ins and outs to it, but the main thing I would say to the residents and politicians of liberal coastal areas is that the Texas gestalt is growth-friendly because quite literally it welcomes growth while _ coastal cities have become exceptionally small-c conservative and change averse _.
I love when someone points out that the behavior of people in big cities who proudly claim to be “liberal” is often best described with the c-word.
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Andromeda! Groovy electro rock from the 25th century (by ultrasissi)
(via jwz)
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Drone, not drones.
—[The audacity of Low: What does a band ‘owe’ us when we pay to see them perform? Local Current Blog The Current from Minnesota Public Radio](http://blog.thecurrent.org/2013/06/the-audacity-of-low-what-does-a-band-owe-us-when-we-pay-to-see-them-perform/) -
Such was the quandary facing soldiers during the Civil War, when going home constituted desertion. Doctors diagnosed 5,000 clinical cases of nostalgia in Union soldiers and determined that 74 men had died from the affliction. To contain the epidemic, military officials prohibited Army bands from playing “Home, Sweet Home,” while ministers and officers avoided references in sermons or speeches that might touch off a new outbreak.
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The first thing I did after I heard about the highly classified NSA PRISM program two years ago was set up a proxy server in Peshawar to email me passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. A literary flight of fancy. I started sending back excerpts from Gerard Manley Hopkins poems.
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[Cryptogams & the NSA Warscapes](http://www.warscapes.com/literature/cryptogams-nsa) (via Sam Bailey)
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Again and again in the past few days, we have read people delivering some version of the same argument. “I don’t see what they have to worry about.” That’s the real crime of the people who attack Edward Snowden instead of grappling with what it means to be a subversive in the eyes of the state: a profound failure of imagination.
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at Union Transfer
