July 2012
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Not What, But Who
“No. I left the church when I was seventeen. I have not joined anything since. I had to go away someplace and get rid of all these labels and find out not what I was, but who.” – James Baldwin, in a 1986 Fresh Air Interview, on whether he thought the gay liberation movement was important to him.  I love his point about labels. They screw everything up. We put the label on first and...
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Guess who’s slamming islamophobia & defending Huma... →
Can’t say I find myself siding with this guy often, but kudos to Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner for standing up for Huma Abedin, articulately and without caveat, at a town hall meeting. A plea for religious freedom for Muslims, from the right. 
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“New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation...”
– Norman Mailer (via mykindoftownchicago) He may have been wrong about Pittsburgh, but he was certainly right about Chicago.
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“Politics are an inevitable part of a collective national trauma, which, for...”
– Politicizing Tragedy and the Aurora Theater Shooting | Mother Jones (via rachelfershleiser) I’ve been thinking about the politicizing of these murders a lot today, but then I got distracted. I got distracted by the irony of hearing people in Chicago express their horror about the shootings in...
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Soup: Do newspaper editors know what an internet... →
felixsalmon: You’d think they had no idea, from reading the financial press. For instance, the WSJ’s Pui-Wing Tam started an article today by talking about “little-known social coding start-up GitHub”. Or consider this, from the FT’s Barney Jopson: Most consumers still view Amazon… I’m stunned that the news industry is floundering. Stunned.
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So Many Good-byes →
One night, I realized I would soon be going to a lot of funerals. For eight years I was lucky enough to be a bartender in a small-town tourist community, four at a dive bar, four at a supper club. Many of the nights were soul-crushingly slow, but I was lucky because I got to know so many people and hear so many life stories. The great thing about small towns is you can’t seek out a niche...
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