A summary of Charlie Rose’s interview with Žižek.
I made you all a GIF of William F. Buckley, Jr. but I’m not sure why.
Why Shouldn’t I Work for the NSA?, from Good Will Hunting (1997)
Joe Vega, 47, a retired New York City police officer who lives in Cornwall, found the swarm so bad he had to wear goggles to chop wood in his driveway; he also had to drive with the windows tightly shut. Eventually, unwilling to simply wait out the bugs’ short life cycle, he contacted an exterminator.
But when he called First Rate Solutions Inc., a local pest-control company, he discovered that its owner, Samuel Soto, categorically refuses to kill cicadas.
“I’m very sympathetic to their plight,” said Mr. Soto, who went so far as to take out a $250 advertisement in the local paper explaining that cicadas are harmless. “I’m not going to spray for them, because they’re going to be gone in two weeks. Let them enjoy life for two weeks.”
“I could have made some money,” he added. “But it’s not the right thing to do.”
”Not Much Love in the Air for Swarm of Mating Cicadas - NYTimes.com.
Mr. Soto, you are a mensch. By way of ayjay.
I wholeheartedly concur.
(via ayjay)
E.W. Jackson, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia, on Seinfeld.
The first and last time this will be said: Virginia, please keep this man around just so we can hear him complain about the next season of Girls.
By way of ccindecision.
Oddly enough the same group of words describe just about everyone.
By way of harikondabolu:
I did a piece on Totally Biased about the National Spelling Bee aka THE INDIAN SUPERBOWL. Congrats to fellow Queens native Arvind Mahankali!
On the Indian Super Bowl: “Six winners in a row. Six in a row son, that’s incredible! So it gives me great pleasure to finally say, hey white people learn the language.”
