April 2009
6 posts
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anais Nin, accidentally encapsulating the driving idea behind cognitive behavioral therapy: the notion that [our] thoughts make our lives what they are, that we see things through our own filters and that, if we can adjust those filters somewhat, we can adjust - quite literally - how we experience...
“Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext...”
– Paul Krugman, “Grand unified scandal”, New York Times, 22 Apr 2009 (via Attaturk)
“People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll...”
– Thom Yorke (via jotterbook » jonathan-deamer » vruz » reckon » furryrabbits)
“[W]hen impoverished people die and their needs are not met[, t]hat’s actually...”
– Jeffrey Sachs, interview, from “Dead in the Water,” a documentary on water privatization, broadcast on the fifth estate (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, March 31, 2004; PDF of interview text). Discovered via Dave Riddell’s Twitter stream, via ayse, via nbr Believing the Invisible Hand and...
Death Cab For Cutie “Sick Of Myself”
(originally...
“Well, people like that who want to share our freedoms must know that their...”
– Bill Clinton 