I mean, obviously they didn't find real demons. But it's good to know they didn't even believe their own bullshit.
"When the Warrens were writing In a Dark Place, the book upon which the cosmically forgettable 2009 film The Haunting in Connecticut was based, they contacted horror author Ray Garton to help. Garton went into the project thinking that he'd be interviewing a family who truly believed they were being haunted, but quickly found that the family was deeply troubled, and no one involved could keep their stories straight. When he expressed his concerns to Ed Warren, he responded, "All the people who come to us are crazy ... just use what you can and make the rest up ... make it up and make it scary. That's why we hired you."" Cracked
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A memoir by a former white supremacist. Cracked
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"My sex utopia is not a place where no one fakes it but rather a place where sex is less numbers-oriented; where we don’t measure our own sexual prowess by charting our partner’s orgasms; and where the language of “giving” someone an orgasm is done away with altogether. Instead of asking, “Did you come?” we ask each other, “Do you want more? Is there something else I should do?”" Playboy
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"Beard observes that there is no word in Latin for “smile,” and makes the striking suggestion that the Romans simply did not smile in the sense that we understand the social gesture today." New Yorker
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"On no, our totally futile, counterproductive and inhumane policies have failed!" Guardian
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So Israel actually funded Hamas (or its predecessors) in the 1980s...
"‘The Islamic associations’, the Israeli weekly magazine Koteret Rashit observed in October 1987, ‘have been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authorities’ who were ‘convinced that the activities [of the Islamists] would weaken both the PLO and leftist organizations in Gaza.’ While most of these activities were funded largely by contributions from the Gulf states, some former Israeli intelligence officers claim that money also came covertly from Israel itself." Ken Malik
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I think this is illustrative of how trying to determine whether a given person "is" or "isn't" a racist is kind of unhelpful. The entire white population cannot be divided up into paid-up KKK members on the one hand and totally blameless flowers on the other. Racism permeates our societies, and influences each of us in contradictory and complex ways.
"My white brother isn’t a racist – and he didn’t intentionally kill that man because he was black – but that’s not the point. In his case – in Ferguson and in so many other cases – we see the deaths of unarmed black men as “accidents”. And until the day we all recognize them as casualties of something much bigger, we will continue to see black men dead on the news." Guardian
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Hmm, this sounds a somewhat pessimistic note about the new BRT systems in South Africa. It just goes to show how much apartheid-era city planning continues to screw us over.
"Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, says the predominant spatial condition of South African cities, low-density suburban sprawl, does not make particularly suitable terrain for BRT, which requires continued and very high rates of occupancy to sustain itself economically. In the arcane economics of transport planning, the relevant figure is known as the IPK, or index of passengers per kilometer. The World Bank considers that only systems with an IPK above 10 are likely to remain financially viable; the publicly available IPK figure for Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya stands at 2." Guardian
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An interesting perspective on the affordability of living in big cities with high rents (but good public transport). It's not clear how well this applies to London, since it's public transport is itself notoriously expensive.
"The New York Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit devoted to state and city government issues, recently ranked 21 large U.S. cities and found that New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., (also thought of as an expensive place to live) were actually among the most affordable. How is that possible? First, families in these cities tend to earn more. Second, they spend less money commuting. The typical New York household, for instance, pays a ludicrous amount of rent, but most don't own a car, since they can use the subway or a bus to get to work instead." Slate
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"... we do not expect straight people to become non-sexual beings at work or in public; we merely require that they have the good sense and self-control to avoid overtly expressing sexual desire in spaces where it is inappropriate. Real equality requires the same treatment for gay people. Sexual harassment is sexual harassment regardless of gender, but the almost involuntary act of noticing an attractive member of the sex(es) to which you are drawn is not a crime." Slate
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"Sex workers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are hopeful that following the recent International AIDS Conference (IAC), held in July 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister, Honourable. Michael Malaba, will keep his public commitment to introduce legislation that decriminalises sex work and same sex relationships. In an UNAIDS led Community Dialogue Space session, Mr Malaba stated that he recognised that the decriminalisation of sex work was a key reform essential to tackling HIV/AIDS and that he was committed to reforming PNG’s “colonial era laws” which currently criminalise both sex work and same sex relationships." NSWP
"When the Warrens were writing In a Dark Place, the book upon which the cosmically forgettable 2009 film The Haunting in Connecticut was based, they contacted horror author Ray Garton to help. Garton went into the project thinking that he'd be interviewing a family who truly believed they were being haunted, but quickly found that the family was deeply troubled, and no one involved could keep their stories straight. When he expressed his concerns to Ed Warren, he responded, "All the people who come to us are crazy ... just use what you can and make the rest up ... make it up and make it scary. That's why we hired you."" Cracked
>>><<<
A memoir by a former white supremacist. Cracked
>>><<<
"My sex utopia is not a place where no one fakes it but rather a place where sex is less numbers-oriented; where we don’t measure our own sexual prowess by charting our partner’s orgasms; and where the language of “giving” someone an orgasm is done away with altogether. Instead of asking, “Did you come?” we ask each other, “Do you want more? Is there something else I should do?”" Playboy
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"Beard observes that there is no word in Latin for “smile,” and makes the striking suggestion that the Romans simply did not smile in the sense that we understand the social gesture today." New Yorker
>>><<<
"On no, our totally futile, counterproductive and inhumane policies have failed!" Guardian
>>><<<
So Israel actually funded Hamas (or its predecessors) in the 1980s...
"‘The Islamic associations’, the Israeli weekly magazine Koteret Rashit observed in October 1987, ‘have been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authorities’ who were ‘convinced that the activities [of the Islamists] would weaken both the PLO and leftist organizations in Gaza.’ While most of these activities were funded largely by contributions from the Gulf states, some former Israeli intelligence officers claim that money also came covertly from Israel itself." Ken Malik
>>><<<
I think this is illustrative of how trying to determine whether a given person "is" or "isn't" a racist is kind of unhelpful. The entire white population cannot be divided up into paid-up KKK members on the one hand and totally blameless flowers on the other. Racism permeates our societies, and influences each of us in contradictory and complex ways.
"My white brother isn’t a racist – and he didn’t intentionally kill that man because he was black – but that’s not the point. In his case – in Ferguson and in so many other cases – we see the deaths of unarmed black men as “accidents”. And until the day we all recognize them as casualties of something much bigger, we will continue to see black men dead on the news." Guardian
>>><<<
Hmm, this sounds a somewhat pessimistic note about the new BRT systems in South Africa. It just goes to show how much apartheid-era city planning continues to screw us over.
"Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, says the predominant spatial condition of South African cities, low-density suburban sprawl, does not make particularly suitable terrain for BRT, which requires continued and very high rates of occupancy to sustain itself economically. In the arcane economics of transport planning, the relevant figure is known as the IPK, or index of passengers per kilometer. The World Bank considers that only systems with an IPK above 10 are likely to remain financially viable; the publicly available IPK figure for Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya stands at 2." Guardian
>>><<<
An interesting perspective on the affordability of living in big cities with high rents (but good public transport). It's not clear how well this applies to London, since it's public transport is itself notoriously expensive.
"The New York Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit devoted to state and city government issues, recently ranked 21 large U.S. cities and found that New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., (also thought of as an expensive place to live) were actually among the most affordable. How is that possible? First, families in these cities tend to earn more. Second, they spend less money commuting. The typical New York household, for instance, pays a ludicrous amount of rent, but most don't own a car, since they can use the subway or a bus to get to work instead." Slate
>>><<<
"... we do not expect straight people to become non-sexual beings at work or in public; we merely require that they have the good sense and self-control to avoid overtly expressing sexual desire in spaces where it is inappropriate. Real equality requires the same treatment for gay people. Sexual harassment is sexual harassment regardless of gender, but the almost involuntary act of noticing an attractive member of the sex(es) to which you are drawn is not a crime." Slate
>>><<<
"Sex workers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are hopeful that following the recent International AIDS Conference (IAC), held in July 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Papua New Guinea’s Health Minister, Honourable. Michael Malaba, will keep his public commitment to introduce legislation that decriminalises sex work and same sex relationships. In an UNAIDS led Community Dialogue Space session, Mr Malaba stated that he recognised that the decriminalisation of sex work was a key reform essential to tackling HIV/AIDS and that he was committed to reforming PNG’s “colonial era laws” which currently criminalise both sex work and same sex relationships." NSWP
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