August 2012
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Exclusive for readers of the OR Books blog!!
Wow! an excerpt from Mitt Romney’s forthcoming concession speech (as reproduced in The Rude Pundit’s Almanack, Version 2.0):
….I know the pundits in the mainstream media will say there is a hint of racism in what I say. But those who say that are either not white or feel guilt because they are white. I feel no guilt. I feel no regret. I feel only occasional rage at not getting...
“I would say our system is being corrupted by money and politics. We have to go...”
– Medea Benjamin, when asked by The Daily Beast what she’d say if she were given 30 seconds at the RNC podium. Read the rest of the great interview here.
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Fifty Shades of Louisa May: A Loving Biography... →
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Michael Dokes, 1958-2012
Quote of the month:
“The past is history, the future isn’t here yet, and the present is linguine and clam sauce.” — as quoted in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1993
World boxing champ, 53-6-2 with 34 TKOs, in the aftermath of a 1993 match against Riddick Bowe, which he lost badly. Just before the bout he had downed a “huge” plate of pasta.
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"I'm not a killer," he said as he raised the...
A perfect example of what it says it’s not, in today’s N.Y. Times Sunday Book Review: Ron Powers’ review of Dale Peck’s Garden of Lost and Found is revenge criticism. Quotes taken out of context à la Mitt Romney, and a review that’s 1/2 devoted to other work; a refusal to accept the book’s premise (the melding of fantasy and reality, which is after all a...
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How Do You Like Barack Obama Now? A Conversation |... →
We’re parking our internet cursor here for a while…
Jim Newell! Jodi Kantor! Cord Jefferson! and more! in a chat thread about Obama yesterday and today.
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OR Books goes Wall Street
Insiders’ deal! do these people have no shame? … probably not.
DRAWING ATTENTION: SUE COE by Sunaura Taylor →
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Activists, artists, and animal-lovers Sunaura Taylor and Sue Coe sit down at Moo Shoes to discuss propaganda, animal rights, and Coe’s new book, Cruel.
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Olympics...
While we’re in an Olympics mode: “There are no outdoor sports greater than throwing stones at a dictatorship.” Activist artist Ai Weiwei quoted in the documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.” Which you should see!
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