December 2008
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Harvard Law Review, 1976
” The Supreme Courts is struggling manfully, but with questionable success, to establish a formula for delimiting who may sue that stops short of ‘anybody who might be significantly affected by situation he seeks to litigate. ‘Anybody’—even ‘almost anybody’—can be a lot of people, particularly where the matters in issue are not relatively...
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James Landis at the New York Stock Exchange...
“Self-government is, of course, the desirable thing. Everyone will admit that the less regulation there is, the better it will be, provided the objectives are always kept clear; and the better the self-government, the less need there is for regulation.”
The Mighty Investment Banking Houses
“In the late 20’s, the mighty investment banking houses, more than any other type of financial enterprise, evoked a popular image of solid respectability, of hushed rooms paneled in dark wood and carpeted with oriental rugs: an aura of gentlemen’s clubs where a man’s word was his bond.”
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still studying for finals, reading vaguely inane...
“By 1967 the confidence that marked the early years of federal antipoverty efforts was beginning to wane. Even Sargent Shriver, the eternally optimistic head of the Office of Economic Opportunity, conceded that eliminating poverty would take longer than originally anticipated.”
No shit, Sargent.
Watch“Grand Rapids in Miniature”
My Father Used to Post Things on the Internet
Salem Wed Jun 5 22:18:33 PDT 1996
Hello, In our family, although there is a joint ownership our animals have a tendency to supervise one human on a more regular basis. Sunshine, for example, is a yellow labrador who was found abandoned with her mother Brook in a woodlot, spends her time training Katherine to throw tennis balls frisbies or whatever. Brook a chocolate lab has convinced Salem...
In my dream, a geisha with electrical currents for eyes paced outside my bedroom door.
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Terry Stops Compared with Arrests →
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State of Exile, No. XXXVI
Their return would be
a voyage toward their source
a counter-odyssey
on apocalyptic ships.
They would say it is
as if the years had never passed.
—Christina Peri Rossi
Watchadamted:
“Prismatic Room” by the Crystal Stilts.
Been building my life out of distorted fragments Absorbing light through a prismatic tomb My mind imbibes the city’s madness Projecting worlds on the walls of this magic room
This magic room My prismatic tomb This prismatic room My magic tomb
When I conjure memories They feel like someone else’s Mere unconscious currency I adhere to my...
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Re: "Prismatic Room"
Whatever it was, the image that stopped you, the one on which you came to grief, projecting it over and over on empty walls.
Now to give up the temptations of the projector; to see instead the web of cracks filtering across the plaster.
To read there the map of the future, the roads radiating from the initial split, the filaments thrown out from that impasse.
To reread the instructions n your...
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Contractors in Iraq ARE Mercenaries →
“FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES. THIS GROUP IS PRO-CONTRACTOR. WE CONVINCED THE KID THAT USED TO RUN IT TO GIVE IT TO GLEN AND I (ROB) BECAUSE THE GROUP HAD BECOME ALMOST 99% PRO CONTRACTOR. SORRY ABOUT THE NAME, BUT WE CANNOT CHANGE IT. P.S.- DONT VOTE HILLARY ‘08. HA HA.”
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BOO LOVIN' →