Sunrise at the Forest of Halle - Belgium | image by Gerard Leeuw
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Winter time | image by Bjorn Leirvik
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Thing I learned today: students suddenly start paying attention during lecture when you call Jonathan Swift “the Stephen Colbert of the eighteenth century.” (via englishprof)
Thing I learned today: students suddenly start paying attention during lecture when you call Jonathan Swift “the Stephen Colbert of the eighteenth century.” (via englishprof)
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365 Film Challenge| 030| Insidious (2010)
Heard bad things about it, decided to watch it anyway. Turns out they are right.
★☆☆☆☆
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The years have seen the rapid expansion of gay rights, with a state-by-state push for same-sex marriage heading the list. And much of this progress can be traced to Lawrence v. Texas, with its message of tolerance and inclusion in American life. Never again, Carpenter writes, would gay men and women be left to worry “whether the words engraved on the pediment of the Supreme Court building, ‘Equal Justice Under Law,’ included them. The Constitution was now their constitution, too.
New York Times book review of FLAGRANT CONDUCT
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