"If you think there is a vast climate conspiracy out to silence you, corrupting science and public discourse in order to accrue power, then why accept the result of an election? Why accept the findings of the IPCC or CSIRO, or the authority of the UN? And by extension, why engage with any criticism, which is ideologically motivated to begin with? It’s the ultimate political and intellectual cul-de-sac"
#environment
#politics
#ideology
#australia
"It’s definitely my favorite film franchise that’s 80 percent boring."
Chuck Klosterman in Grantland on the Planet of the Apes films.
#film
"If there was human care involved, Sandler’s Happy Madison production company managed to do its signature detailing job to remove it, for maximum ease of consumption. And so Zookeeper plays like an amalgam of tics and bulging clichés, arranged in a vague narrative order and stretched out to an unconscionable 104 minutes."
From Michelle Orange’s Review of Zookeeper.
#film
#peeps
Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Mass Transit and Walking - NYTimes.com →
#transportation
#cities
#urban_planning
#cars
#cycling
"But self-publishing a blog should never be conflated with an unpaid internship. Unpaid internships are for chumps. They are a disgusting scam that ensures that the pipeline into the industry is clogged with wealthy college kids"
#writing
The One-Percenters - Roger Ebert's Journal →
Why do middle and lower class Tea Party members not understand that they bear an unfair burden of taxes that should be more fairly distributed? Why do they support those who campaign against unions and a higher minimum wage? What do they think is in it for them?
"Really, if the old Penn Station had not been knocked down, at best it would have ended up annoyingly subdivided into a mall, like Union Station in Washington D.C., because that is the only thing that America can think of to do with its vast public spaces anymore."
#usa
#transportation
#urban planning
#cities
"The moral is clear. Republicans don’t have a mandate to cut spending; they have a mandate to repeal the laws of arithmetic."
Uninformed electorate, unaccountable politicians. Paul Krugman tells it like it is.
#politics
#usa
#economics
"Discipline! Those careless poor people, frittering away taxpayer dollars on heat! Don’t they know these are tough economic times?"
#politics
#usa
"One year at Cannes I was told by Tony Curtis, born in New York, that the problem with living in Los Angeles was that without seasons it was always the same year: ‘You go to sleep by your pool one afternoon, and when you wake up you’re 60.’"
#winter
#film
R Kelly - Interview Magazine →
#music
Interviewed by Will Oldham. R Kelly is totally batshit crazy, in a really good way.
