Our Limited Veracity

Releasing the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will require US Government officials to do something it is not used to doing, and something it does not like to do — admit it was wrong. It is wrong to hold these men for more than a decade, wrong to torture them, and wrong to deny their release.

The Lonely Island

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - “How we stopped SOPA” (by F2C2012)

RIP, Aaron Swartz - by Cory Doctorow My friend Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday, Jan 11. He was 26. I got woken up with the news about an hour ago. I’m still digesting it — I suspect I’ll be digesting it for a long time — but I thought it was important to put something public up so that we could talk about it. Aaron was a public guy… read more

(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)

56. Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of “character.” …Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as “a camp,” the’re enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.

b/c im takign ERRYBODY to school