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John F. Nash Jr. at his graduation from Princeton in 1950.
Credit Courtesy of Martha Nash Legg & The New York Times

Today was to be an ordinary day. I wrote. I ate. I smoked, I chatted on Facebook, I checked the news and I hoped for better days and was grateful for days that are.

Today was to be an ordinary day, until the news came across my feed.

Quote of the Day

 

Quote of the Day

NPR’s interview with the New York Times’ David Carr exposes one of the real scandals of press coverage of politics and our government. Never mind the deliberately generated faux concern of the Huffington Post with their raging about Newsweek’s supposedly sensational covers

How’s bout having coverage that, oh, let’s think a bit, doesn’t sell us out?

Vanity Fair’s ‘get’ of the President – their interview which

got a lot for the agreement that [was]made.

[check out NPR’s sit down with David Carr of the NYT for the story]

ought make everyone Rage Against the Machine of politicos and government folk trading access in exchange for the media agreeing to help fine tune the politico’s message sans ‘uncomfortable’ quotes.

mister anchor, assure me
that Baghdad, is burning
your voice it is so soothing
that cunning mantra of killing
i need you, my witness
to dress this up so bloodless
to numb me, and purge me now
of thoughts of blaming you

(Rage Against the Machine – Testify)