Repost: BBC, "Syria's musicians await future..."
“War may have energised the metal bands, but ultimately it led to a mass exodus of musicians that felt the country no longer offered a future.”
Repost: Luigi's Manifesto
More like minifesto
Repost: Norah Vincent, “On the Subject of my Suicide”
Another repost about agony and ecstasy.
Repost: Adena Philips for SAPIR, "The False Binary of Theism vs. Atheism"
“an atheist may have more in common with a believer who ascribes to a universal consciousness than to an absurdist”
Repost: Major Fraud Stories
Jaw-dropping fraud cases: a real-life 2008 Nigerian Prince scam and a Vietnamese tycoon recently sentenced to death.
Repost: Dominic Pino, "The Secret Service Needs an Intervention"
“The federal government spends $6 trillion a year and somehow can’t protect sensitive sites”
Repost: Age of Disruption, "Six-Chart Sunday (#23) – God Bless the USA"
“Are we perfect? Of course not.”
Repost: Telegraph, "Dolly Parton scheme giving children free books attacked as ‘white saviourism’"
“Jennifer Stone asserts that Dolly Parton’s philanthropy is ‘potentially dangerous’ and smacks of ‘white savourism’.”
Repost: The Times of Addu, "The depopulation of Thinadhoo was 'Genocide'"
“Thousands were allegedly killed or disappeared in the depopulation”