George Bush’s reign highlighted the enormous power of the individual president to drive policy, which made the elections involving him compelling contests; Obama’s first term has highlighted the timeless power of the intractable bureaucracy underneath the president, which is kind of a bummer, when you think about it.
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21 May 2012
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11:46
“the meeting was sponsored by a rabbinical group that is connected to a software company specializing in selling web filtering software to Orthodox Jews.” (via More than 40,000 Orthodox Jews rally against the internet at New York baseball stadium)
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20 May 2012
Half a decade of absolutely flat oil production — propaganda to the contrary — guarantees that the suburban project is finished. We’re done building things that way (even if we don’t quite realize it yet) so the New Urbanists have won the argument by default.
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16:12
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14:54
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19 May 2012
DUMBO plaza put to good use
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12:12
“our modeling indicates that the oil savings in goods movement alone propelled by a carbon tax would be comparable to the oil delivered to this country by Keystone XL” (via Carbon Tax Center)
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17 May 2012
I am so 1337 right now I can’t stand it
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21:00
When someone around me is watching Downton Abbey
I just wanna be like,
For Leland
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12:51
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
