20 noiembrie 2012

interviu Anne Applebaum

What I meant were people who went along with things because they had very bad choices and because the circumstances of their lives forced them to do it.

I have huge sympathy for people who lived in, say, Poland or Czechoslovakia in that period. I have much less sympathy for people in the west. There was always information about what was going in eastern Europe. They had plenty of good choices. So I don’t feel sympathy for Eric Hobsbawm and his friends but I do have sympathy for unwilling, half-enthusiastic communists in eastern Europe in the 1950s. They had a tough time.

din New Statesman

19 noiembrie 2012

Miles

Upright Citizens Brigade - ASSSSCAT

Close - the fundamental disagreement between Del Close and Bernie Sahlins was whether or not improvisation is a means of generating content, or the artform itself. They fought about it for years and years. To this day, The Second City focuses more on improv as a means to generate sketch whereas iO focuses on The Harold.

16 noiembrie 2012

Despre conflictul din Gaza

şi un alt fel de social media

ciorditorii de istorie

Premiul se acordă la egalitate,

USL-ului care în fluturaşii împărţiţi zilele ăstea, îşi arogă proprietatea asupra mişcărilor de stradă din ianuarie. Probabil că Dragnea s-a ocupat şi de asta.

Evenimentului Zilei, pentru o descoperire istorică, mai precis data la care a avut loc prima revoluţie anti-comunistă din România. A nu se confunda cu a III-a şi a V-a, care au avut loc Dumnezeu ştie cînd (probabil că în mintea celor de la Evz).

Despre părinţi şi copii

At one point, Solomon writes of the Mad Pride movement, which advocates a low-intervention, self-determined approach to schizophrenia and other mental conditions, partly on the ground that everyone ought to have control of his own mind, even if it’s subject to hallucinations. (The movement has little clinical support.) Most of us have the sense that this is not the most helpful approach, that it is better to treat schizophrenic Cousin Sandoval than to shrug and turn him loose with his delusions. But how is this different from requiring a dwarf to submit to a stretching rack?

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