February 2012
60 posts
“Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful...”
– Mark Kramer (via the-destroia)
“Let’s just state the obvious right off the bat: What Councilman Brady Banks did...”
– The Tennessean’s Gail Kerr (demonstrating that newspaper columnists can still get away with coarse sexist statements about women without much blowback)
“Each serves his country in his own way – one with the sword, another with the...”
– Emile Zola, The Life of Emile Zola
“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football,...”
– The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
I’ve always thought that the error is one of the key things that makes baseball a great sport.
(via letussqueezehands)
Whitney Houston dies the whole world knows in 12...
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“I did have hopes, based on his ringing endorsement of the rule of law and...”
– Mano Singham
Occupy Long Island: Syria on CNN →
occupyli:
“I’ve seen really horrible things. A kid with his jaw gone….A little girl- four years old- laying there…” Her left eye, gone.
Amputations. Medicine missing. Civilian Casualties. Political division will continue to make the bloodshed a reasonable excuse to not involve themselves and turn away…
“[T]he vast majority of the Washington region’s poor people live in...”
– Where Poor Washingtonians Live
