“If I could re-roll the film, I would stop the invasion…. Iraq served as my political coming of age in the way that the Vietnam was a coming of age for the generation ten to fifteen years ahead of me.
Anne-Marie Slaughter in Arguing Iraq—Ten Years After: A Symposium (via thenewrepublic)
Makes me love this woman even more. I wish that I believed Iraq was the political coming of age for the generation 10-15 years behind Slaughter (i.e. my generation) as Vietnam was for our parents.
Remembering 9/11/2001 (via Newsweek)
Wow. Never forget. (But we can stop exploiting it for political gain now, ok?)
(via theatlantic)
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s historic concert at the Kennedy Center; & inspired by NPR’s story yesterday about the Center’s re-imagining of the concert and involvement of young artists to remix the title track.
Been a big 24 hours in music. Among other notable milestones, celebrating the superhumanly long career of Pete Seeger (Happy 93rd Bday!) - and the tragic premature loss of MCA (No sleep till Brooklyn!).
The obsession with celebrities goes far beyond supermarket tabloids, gossip Web sites and reality...
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The great workplace dilemmas of our time…
It’s Anish Kapoor’s world, we’re just living in it.
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