Sheppard Paisley

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Because of a very long fart, really a very long, and let us be frank, melodious fart, that I produced when I woke up, I was reminded of Michel de Montaigne.

Salvador Dalí

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Again this morning, while I was on the toilet, I had a truly remarkable piece of insight. My bowel movement, by the way, was perfectly exceptional, smooth and odourless.

Salvador Dalí

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Worth reading ...

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The decline and fall of the American Empire has been a long time coming ...

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You have the right to remain silent and let their money spake for you. Or you can demand to be heard.

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This is your brain on sugar.

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I really need to cut back on my sugar ... and also my cocaine consumption

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What Sanders’s version of socialism seems to mean instead is a reflexive distrust in markets that is the ideological mirror image of conservative distrust of government.

Jonathan Chait writing in New York Magazine

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Axe is the most existentially free person in the show’s well-drawn universe of ambitious hypocrites.

Emily Nussbaum reviewing “Billions” for the New Yorker

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A 53-year-old photo released by The Chicago Tribune that shows Bernie Sanders being dragged away from a protest by the police is genuine, according to Sanders. According to the paper, the 1963 protest was over the racist practice of “Willie Wagons.”

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Progress

[instereo007]

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This never happened. But it would have been something had it happened ...

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Results in Nevada

The final results are in from Nevada and it looks like we’re going to leave another state with roughly the same number of delegates as Hillary Clinton, maybe down just a few.

I want to be completely clear with you about what this result means: Nevada was supposed to be a state “tailor made” for the Clinton campaign, and a place she once led by almost 40 points. But today, we sent a message that will stun the political and financial establishment of this country: our campaign can win anywhere.

There are 26 primaries and caucuses in the next month, and three straight positive results for our campaign are sure to prompt an over-the-top response from the millionaires and billionaires who are funding our opponent and her many super PACs.

We have to be prepared for their best shot, because it’s coming:

Make another $5 contribution to our campaign tonight and we are going to win this Democratic primary, the White House, and take our country back from the billionaire class.

We’re closing the gap dramatically in states that have yet to vote, and there’s a path to victory for our political revolution. If we continue to stand together, we’ll continue to win.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

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via

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Crude. But on the mark.

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Norden Insurance (1960s) in Bærum, Norway, by Fosse & Aasen

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I wonder if this building is still standing?

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In praising Scalia’s brilliant legal mind, no politician seems willing to assert that his beloved originalism, the objective rather than subjective reading of Constitutional text, was a theory sprung more from the justice’s doctrinaire Catholicism than from jurisprudence, and that it is utterly inapplicable to a document written by the Founders intentionally to be vague.

https://newrepublic.com/article/129924/antonin-scalias-death-huge-opportunity-hillary-clinton