Amy Davidson on how the cliff deal raises payroll taxes on low income & middle class—and internalizes GOP delusions: http://nyr.kr/WecEWG
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Did I mention? The Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long: Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice was an absolutely awesome way to spend my last night in New York before my holiday travels.
(Source: halvingthetimeofmylife, via fuckyeahsufjanstevens)
“For us today the problem is how to reconcile a high degree of critical self-consciousness with a burning desire for experience, which is not spoiled by too much self-analysis. The popularization of social science has made us all painfully aware of the sources of our feelings and ideas. Yet we also yearn for joyful immediacy. We want to believe but we are unable.”
— Harvey Cox, The Feast of Fools (via ftherapy)
“Repetition, broadly construed, is in everything. It’s in our breath, and our pulse. It’s sunrise, sunset. It’s spring summer fall winter. The tides, cell division. Bad habits, and good ones. The daily grind. Annoyingly repetitive thoughts. It’s in music, art, dance, architecture. Religion, history. Doodling, nail-biting, toe-tapping, smoking. Menstruation, masturbation, sex. Rhythm is repetition. Rhyme is repetition.”
— Elizabeth Giddens on the value of repetition (via wnycradiolab)
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