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Monthly Archives: August 2026
Comedy Break
Interesting Read
via The New York Times:
Moving Back Home After College? All Your Friends Are Doing It.
by Noam Scheiber
published on August 2, 2026
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Quote, Unquote
Roy Cohn was a master of situational immorality. He had rules about how to exercise power. You would always try to goad your enemies into being the worst they possibly could be and then turn that against them, so that Cohn would actually look like the good guy, which he virtually never was.
~ Sam Roberts, city politics reporter for the Daily News via The New Yorker
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Campus Life at
Johns Hopkins University
Five American Universities
to follow on Twitter
Quote, Unquote
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Midday Music Fix
FM – Phasors On Stun
FM Live – 1989 – Phasors On Stun
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Quote, Unquote
One important—maybe the most important—thing about noir is that it can’t get by on plot alone. Almost every page of A Violent Masterpiece has a spark and crackle of language, detail, idea.
~ Carolyn Kellogg via The Atlantic
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General George S. Brown was born
on this day in 1918
George S. Brown – the American four-star general who served as the 8th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 8th Chief of Staff of the Air Force – was born on this day – August 17, 1918 – in McAlister, Oklahoma.
He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the National War College.
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