Miscellaneous

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dixiechicken:

liveinrainbow:

fatvirginsuicide:

joy-joyous:

Badass motherfucker of the century.

THIS KID GIVES ME HOPE.

I never thought I’d be giving huge props to someone named Nekochan, but if that’s the environment she’s in, even having a mild catgirl interest in Japanese culture is kind of a success.
You go, Neko. ^5

liveinrainbow:

fatvirginsuicide:

joy-joyous:

Badass motherfucker of the century.

THIS KID GIVES ME HOPE.

I never thought I’d be giving huge props to someone named Nekochan, but if that’s the environment she’s in, even having a mild catgirl interest in Japanese culture is kind of a success.

You go, Neko. ^5

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Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right The British historian owes his celebrity here to the absence of authentic American conservative intellectuals

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How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon The perverse allure of a damaged woman. - Johann Hari

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Fukuyama interview in the Guardian

Fukayama is wrong in so many ways. Or to be more polite, there’s a lack of specificity throughout the arguments as they are presented here. Still basically a neocon.

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Talking About Fat Cats Is Boring by digby

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Willetts has reminded us that social mobility is a scam - Laurie Penny

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Britain is not Portugal: The Importance of Debt Maturity

Or why the ‘Britain has to cut to avoid the problems faced by other countries’ meme is bullshit

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'There is only honour' - Ezra Klein

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Though the risks are very real, the case for intervention remains strong - Jonathan Freedland

‘What makes no sense is to say that, because our approach to dictators is inconsistent, we should therefore go easy on all of them, including Gaddafi.’

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In the Mideast, U.S. policy is still driven by realism - Eugene Robinson