“So there you have it: two things & I can’t bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?” ―Richard Flanagan There is something to be said for living life with open shutter
It is possible, and it is essential. Listen: we are doing ourselves no favors when we treat our news cycle as a Pez dispenser — when we pop onto our feed(s) and ingest, ingest, ingest another article/think piece/RT until we’re fat and depressed, full and sick. I will make absolutely no apologies for the increasingly
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A Southampton mother plans to sue McDonald’s for an employee’s accidental placement of an unlit cigarette inside her son’s [not-so] happy meal. Read the full story here. [image credit: profan u morphium]
George Washington owes a Manhattan library for two overdue books — from 1789. Were he still around, his late fee would total a near $300,000. Read the full story here. [image credit: slotk]
48-year-old Fan Qianrong has been dining on dirt for the last 40 years to stay healthy. Read the full story here. [image credit: changer]
Bulgarian city councilors caught playing Facebook’s Farmville during budget meetings and have since been voted out of office for a cited “Facebook addiction.” Insanity, but mildly hilarious. [image credit: gustav gustafsson]
It’s official; the Internet is up for this year’s Nobel peace prize.