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Rule no. 17: Omit needless words!

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'Why are you here?': Juncker to Farage in EU parliament – video

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker asks British MEPs why they are still attending the European parliament

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No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage

After her peaceful marriage quietly dissolves, a woman comes to appreciate the vitality of conflict and confrontation.

Shakespeare had it right: “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.” I never spoke of the anger in my heart, the mounting resentments and hurts, and neither did he. I never demanded attention or care, and neither did he. And that’s why we broke. What hurts most is not the loss of the marriage. What hurts most is that our relationship had never, evidently, been the kind worth raising one’s voice about.

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In pictures: Obama’s 8-year journey through Europe

The US president begins to wind down a long and mixed relationship.

By TIM BALL

This week, the U.S. president visits the U.K. — followed by a stop in Germany — likely for his last time in office, slowly bringing to a close a long, mixed relationship with Europe that began when Barack Obama was a history-making candidate for office. Here’s a look back over the years. More photos here

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There was perhaps more love—real, uncomplicated love—for Shandling among his fellow-comedians than there was for anyone else. They respected and admired him as a comedian, of course; his standup and two shows, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” and “The Larry Sanders Show,” were intelligent, honest, and groundbreaking. But Shandling was also a kind and empathetic person in a comedy world in which those qualities rarely come in uncomplicated packages, if at all.

Sarah Larson, “Lots of Love for Garry Shandling” (via newyorker)

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I got myself into a tangle. I tied myself in knots. I built and I built — heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not a single room containing you.

Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

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What we’re reading

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I relate to the Millennium Falcon because I too am refered to as garbage and my motivator is broken

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the Millennial Falcon

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THE RAMPART WAVE (Lyon, France) - BASE Landscape Architecture

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Rabbit Hole

BECCA: Does it ever go away?

NAT: What.

BECCA: This feeling.

NAT: No. I don’t think it does. Not for me, it hasn’t. And that’s goin’ on 11 years. It changes, though.

BECCA: How?

NAT: I don’t know. The weight of it, I guess. At some point it becomes bearable. It turns into something you can crawl out from under, and carry around — like a brick in your pocket. And you forget it every once in a while, but then you reach in for whatever reason and there it is: “Oh, right. That.” Which can be awful. But not all the time. Sometimes it’s kinda ... not that you like it exactly, but it’s what you have instead of your son, so you don’t wanna let go of it either. So you carry it around. And it doesn’t go away, which is ...

BECCA: What.

NAT: Fine ... actually.

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And I know, those walls are up against your back.

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World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania

‘Devastating’ long-term prognosis for ancient Gondwana ecosystem as bushfires turn trees more than 1,000 years old to tinder

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