“Of course, we are an empire, but we are different,” he says. “Our empire is not defined by territorial ambitions but by ideas. A lot of ideas, like free trade, like democracy, like copyright laws.” Copyright? Was my host really suggesting that we had carried out one of the largest land invasions since World War […]

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… comes from Ira Glass, on the subject of work: “There are people who are fundamentally lazy, who only get anything done because they put themselves under dreadful deadline pressure. Those people are all my brothers.” Spotted at thought peach.

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… but a more accurate headline might read: US Credibility Around the World Shot to Shit Long Ago On a vaguely related personal note, we’ve finally cancelled our weekly subscription to the Sunday New York Times and I never thought that cutting off an information feed could feel so good. The Times has to be […]

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9 drawings done by an artist under the influence of LSD, part of a test conducted in the late 1950’s by the US government in the course of its extensive experimentation with psychedelics. “The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His […]

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Tripped-out family-friendly photos make up a special holiday posting on Harry’s page.

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