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...several hundred environmentalists turn out to listen to a man who calls “mainstream” efforts to achieve sustainability “pure masturbation”? In many cases, people were just curious. Others found in Jensen a reflection of their own discontentment: As Quigley wrote me in an e-mail, “The strange thing about Derrick Jensen is that, although I think he’s extreme and totally disagree with some of what he says, hearing what he has to say still makes me want to go live in a forest someplace...
Andrews' golden ticket out of the squalor was her freakish singing voice: pure, light and agile, with a tremendous range and perfect pitch. By 9 she was out on tour with her mother and stepfather. It was the dying days of vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...
Maybe it's part of growing up as a doctor - to put away childish notions like "pure academics." Or, perhaps, we should be reassured by the peer-review process, which all the papers must undergo: papers get chosen for publication only after impartial, third-party doctors have read and vetted them. The vast majority of the time this is pretty good proof that researchers aren't just company shills. But that mandatory confessional is still required in print, stark like the warning on a pack of cigarettes: "This guy is taking money from a company so take what he says...
...GPSTS, characterized the ban as the actions of an overaggressive nanny state, pointing out that it included games in which no money is at stake. “How would you feel if they outlawed movies?” Woods asked. He argued that poker was different from pure games of chance, since it includes major elements of skill. “Is poker gambling? Yes,” Woods said. “But the question is whether or not it’s a skill game more than a chance game. It almost certainly...
...that 8-Ball about Afghanistan and Iraq and the answer is going to continue to be "Reply hazy, try again." It does seem to me that what we need is an administration that pays less attention to its own ideology and more attention to intelligence from the ground - pure, good intelligence that's not filtered through some sort of political mechanism...