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The black actor Kevin Hart was forced to step down as host of the Oscars, for example, when old tweets containing gay slurs were discovered,41 and when he was later injured in a car accident, many Social Justice–oriented activists celebrated it.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
If I had a dollar for every time somebody gave me a CD, I’d have a lot of dollars.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Pop culture
The odd confluence of Rose’s name and the use of “roses” in the lyric confused Jerome Robbins when he first heard it. “Everything’s coming up Rose’s what?” he famously asked.
Ethan Mordden • On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide
Comme le révolutionnaire l'humoriste assumait la brutalité du monde, et lui répondait avec une brutalité accrue. Le résultat de son action n'était cependant pas de transformer le monde, mais de le rendre acceptable en transmuant la violence, nécessaire à toute action révolutionnaire, en rire – accessoirement, aussi, de se faire pas mal de thune. En
Michel Houellebecq • La possibilité d'une île (French Edition)
Broken Record Podcast - Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell Music Podcast
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Paul Holje • 1 card
Impressions on the standup comics and crowds in Midtown for the East Village.
Midtown: Long-Island like, sports and sex jokes, louder, more stereotypically New York, Mitch Hedburg, played into racial stereotypes, comfortable, comedy as a hobby, beer culture.
East Village: nuanced, less obvious punchlines, more believable personal stories, drug/marij