Reading old messages or emails that I wrote always makes me feel this way. Funny how it seems like a different person.
Fox News Call Out Paul Ryan of the Day: Paul Ryan’s Wednesday night speech was a much-needed shot of adrenaline for an otherwise sleepy GOP convention, despite the fact that his remarks were chock-full of “brazen lies.”
But for Fox News to acknowledge Ryan’s inaccuracies — wow.
Sally Kohn’s piece, “Paul Ryan’s speech in 3 words,” calls the candidate’s remarks “dazzling,” but also “deceiving,” and “distracting”:To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.Read the whole thing here.
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Within our lifetimes, we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it’s us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?
This song makes me weak. Open to possibilities I tend to dismiss.
Remember These Things #2
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.”
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Remember These Things #1
“Your life is now. Your life is not going to start when you graduate college. Your life is not going to start when you get married. Your life is now. You have to enjoy your life today…otherwise you’re going to be miserable.”
- Finding the Open Road: A Guide to Self-Construction Rather than Mass Production
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A silence with an unattractive person implies they are the boring one. A silence with an attractive one immediately renders it certain you are the tedious party.
On Love by Alain de Botton
(via fuckyeahworldcup)
A weekend in Michigan.
Photo courtesy of the talented Greg Hollander.
One of these days when I live in a real place and not just a 50+ year old college apartment, I want to do this.
Internet Vices by Patrick Moberg
Food and Friends
I just cooked my first easter dinner on my own. Roast beef, asparagus, crispy smashed potatoes, and a peach & strawberry crumble with vanilla ice cream. I think it was a success.
Today I took a study break, set a timer for 5 minutes, and counted the number of Uggs that passed by. I counted 29.
