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For some reason, though, The Next Generation awakened in me a feeling of terrible and suffocating yearning — that hopeless childish escape wish that’s the wake of a certain kind of fantasy. That feeling that in a different world you’d be happy… . why, then, that yearning? No one lies awake at night longing to…

I’ve been wrong before, and I’ll be wrong again, but I may never have been as wrong as I was when I initially predicted that Mitt Romney’s heinous diatribe against 47 percent of America would have little direct impact on the election. It’s an absolutely crushing blow. Obviously it doesn’t guarantee his defeat — if…

… we couldn’t even imagine that the authorities would be so dumb that they would actually legitimize our influence by arresting us… . But unlike Putin, we’re not chickenshit—so we didn’t stop performing. The church performance was a perfect opportunity for Putin’s apparatchiks to claim that our motives were religious intolerance and not political protest.…

Not all of my bloggy energies are spent here at the Object. No, nor are they exclusive to the website of my employing organization. If you’ll recall, I also contribute to a little something called Friendly Atheist. I thought it was a little past due for me to highlight my posts there from the past…

How are you going to vilify Romney as a heartless plutocrat unfit for the presidency, and then enthusiastically recommend a guy who held Bradley Manning in solitary and killed a 16-year-old American kid? If you’re a utilitarian who plans to vote for Obama, better to mournfully acknowledge that you regard him as the lesser of…

Among the country’s stupefied elites, the bad news induces the wish to make time stand still, to punish the presumption of a future that presents itself as a bill collector. As self-pitying as Shakespeare’s melancholy king, they sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of money. Without it the future doesn’t…

The Republican Party – not just the Romney campaign, but the party as a whole – is running on nothing. They are running on the presumption that the country has already rejected the Democrats, and that therefore it is their turn. They are behaving as if choosing Democratic governance was some kind of “experiment” that…

Galvanized by anger over the killing of the popular American ambassador here last week, thousands of Libyans marched through this city on Friday, demanding the disarming of the militias that helped topple the dictatorship but have troubled the country with their refusal to disband. In a show of mass frustration at the armed groups, protesters…

Yes, there will always be hucksters. And spending all one’s time fighting them is a foolish enterprise. On the right today, they are so numerous, prominent and shameless, their pathologies so ingrained in right-wing media and politics, their wealth so corrupting to young talent, and their pathologies so seldom challenged by those who know better,…

Romney was recorded saying this: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe…

His desire to hear out junior people is a warm personality trait as much as a cool tactic, of a piece with his desire to play golf with White House cooks rather than with C.E.O.’s and basketball with people who treat him as just another player on the court; to stay home and read a…

Om Malik argues that Bezos is the inheritor to Steve Jobs’s crown. I agree. Not because Bezos has copied anything Jobs did, but because he has not. What he’s done that is Jobs-like is doggedly pursue, year after year, iteration after iteration, a vision unlike that of any other company — all in the name…

Though, I admit, perhaps a bit insensitive of me to post today. Nonetheless. me, just now, looking at google calendar: Patriot Day? What is… Oh my God, those bastards attacked us on PATRIOT DAY. — Alison Forns (@alisonforns) September 11, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXr1kmuqGcU parislemon: Apple has been known to poke fun at itself by showing a comical video before an event. Something tells me they won’t be showing this one though. Wow. Just. Wow. (via @StevieWLevin) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)