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Evolution of the hipster - Paste Magazine November 2009
I can only speak for 2002-2008 but this is spot on. It’s confusing to watch these in their natural habit though. There are always latecomers and aheardofthetrend-ers. It’s like watching homo erectus interact with neanderthals. Wait wait no it’s like watching the Flintstones!
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Irony. It’s so tricky. For instance, at some point long ago, we started saying “like” ironically, because it was funny. But eventually, it just became the way we talked, and now we’d probably need to hire the guy who made Matt Damon South African for Invictus if we really wanted to stop saying it. In kind of the same way, Pabst Blue Ribbon became a beer people actually just drank, and those horrible puffy eighties retro sneakers became a look again.
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The slush pile seems, in some sense, to serve as a sort of representative sampling of the collective unconscious of the American public—a surreal landscape of vengeance, conspiracy, otherworldly beings, and really big guns. Sexual relations between ladies and gentlemen are fraught with peril (especially given that one or more participants in any romantic endeavor may very likely be aliens, demons, were-vampires, undead, or in a coma); queerness is almost nonexistent, as is any sort of radical politics (unless by “radical” one means “hoping to overthrow the government and install in its place a parliament selected by extraterrestrials from a more spiritually advanced dimension”); and people of color exist only as grotesque caricatures.
In Shanghai, the Autumn Game Just Isn't Cricket Anymore - WSJ.com
Steroid use in cricket-fighting, reread that, not cricket, cricket-FIGHTING, FIGHTING CRICKETS. Apparently very popular in China.
This is how empires decline. It begins with a debt explosion. It ends with an inexorable reduction in the resources available for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Which is why voters are right to worry about America’s debt crisis. According to a recent Rasmussen report, 42 percent of Americans now say that cutting the deficit in half by the end of the president’s first term should be the administration’s most important task—significantly more than the 24 percent who see health-care reform as the No. 1 priority. But cutting the deficit in half is simply not enough. If the United States doesn’t come up soon with a credible plan to restore the federal budget to balance over the next five to 10 years, the danger is very real that a debt crisis could lead to a major weakening of American power.
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Ferguson: How Economic Weakness Endangers the U.S. | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
Ok, stupid question: what’s the difference between a financial crisis and a fiscal crisis?
