Evening Harvest: May 13, 2012
Eat Drink Mammalogist Woman
Eating in the field can have the same dislocated, heightened quality that accompanies foreign travel. Far from the comforts of home, you find yourself cooking with people who you’ve only ever seen hunched over a lab bench. (You mean, they eat, too?).
A Profile of London by A.A. Gill
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
David Simon | Welcome to Florida. Beware of gunmen standing their ground
That these laws sailed through legislatures and were signed by governors is indicative of a craven national culture, a panicked bunker mentality that now approaches the pathological.
Neil Gaiman’s Journal: Popular Writers: A Stephen King interview.
“They pay me absurd amounts of money,” he observes, “For something that I would do for free.”
The Impasse: When the “truth wins” assumption fails.
When we convey facts to an audience that doesn’t want to hear them, we come to an impasse. The stronger the pre-existing belief, the stronger the motivation to dismiss the contrary evidence and the journalists who convey it. And there’s not much journalists can do about this.
Cindy Sherman’s Vintage Notecard
Fair Deceiver: I did not know until last night that you had a glass eye.
How to End This Depression by Paul Krugman
The truth is that recovery would be almost ridiculously easy to achieve: all we need is to reverse the austerity policies of the past couple of years and temporarily boost spending. Never mind all the talk of how we have a long-run problem that can’t have a short-run solution—this may sound sophisticated, but it isn’t. With a boost in spending, we could be back to more or less full employment faster than anyone imagines.
Of Bedrooms and Boardrooms – Robert Reich
We’re not in trouble because gays want to marry or women want to have some control over when they have babies. We’re in trouble because CEOs are collecting exorbitant pay while slicing the pay of average workers, because the titans of Wall Street demand short-term results over long-term jobs, and because of a boardroom culture that tolerates financial conflicts of interest, insider trading, and the outright bribery of public officials through unlimited campaign “donations.”
Pulitzer Prize Winning German Photographer Horst Fass Dies – SPIEGEL ONLINE
“Horst was one of the biggest talents of our time,” AP’s editor in chief Kathleen Carroll said. He was “a fearless photographer and a courageous journalist.”
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? – NYTimes.com
Then last spring, the psychologist treating Michael referred his parents to Dan Waschbusch, a researcher at Florida International University. Following a battery of evaluations, Anne and Miguel were presented with another possible diagnosis: their son Michael might be a psychopath.
