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I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes. Aleksandr Kuprin

Life Man Eyes World Live Every Saw Through Look His Wanted Inner Every Man Inner Life

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. Aleksandr Kuprin

Me Poverty Drove

While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her. Alethea Kontis

Best Happy Book Ending Girl Christian Films Gave Finally Favorite More Wins Mermaid Princess Waited Years Than Personal Walt Walt Disney While Little Happy Ending Little Girls Disney Her Adaptation

If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years. Alethea Kontis

Life Art You Book Remember Reading Changed Books Mine Exact Habits Feel Over Like Came Cover Were Years Hands Where Anything Then Certain Your Standing Moment Even Whom

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals. Alex Pareene

Good Liberals Minnesota Household Up Very Politically Grew Aware

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities. Alex Pareene

Government Spending Pentagon Budget Like Priorities Government Spending Expression

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders. Alex Pareene

Life People World Videos Doctors Changing Changing The World Borders Diversion Except Like Most Mistook Without Source Friends Itself Office American American Life Use Your Who Suddenly Watch Ted Millions Thinks Millions Of People

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage. Alex Pareene

Democracy Minority Down Correct Immediately System Would Tactical Economic Sabotage Proportional Parliamentary Lead Ideological Least Inexorably American Representation Intentional Social Cut Social Democracy Flourishing

Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it. Alex Pareene

Class People Money Millionaire Rich Nothing Other Give Simply Economy Became Because How His Rich People Works Deserve

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business. Alex Pareene

Business Big Politicians Rich Solely Responsive Constituents Primarily Almost Big Business American Represent Interest Interests Groups Desires

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy. Alex Pareene

Political Believe Please Puppet Corrupt Begin American Establishment Anything Oligarchy

Political battles are won when the rich favor them. Alex Pareene

Political Rich Favor Battles Won Them

Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention. Alex Pareene

Today Youth Liberty Will Party Conservatism Intervention Rand Kicking Kind Embrace More He Toward New Foreign New Kind Screaming Different Republican Skeptical Paul Different Kind Who Appeals Drag

Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups. Alex Pareene

Marketing Those Direct Network Consulting Nonprofit Hired Owe Companies Large Many Professional Groups Growing Livelihood Right

Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread. Alex Pareene

Government Culture Joke Employees Think Conservatism Appropriate Those Mentality Leads Most Toxic Comedic Accent Sort Insulting Unfortunately Us Speaking Workplace Things Raised Widespread

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from. Alex Pareene

Culture Will Profit Complain Conservatives Though Out Like Industries Industry Frequently Sell Expects Being Frozen Anything Produce

Everyone knows how hard it can be to market to millennials. Alex Pareene

Market Everyone Knows How Hard Millennials

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable. Alex Pareene

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore. Alex Pareene

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads. Alex Pareene

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid. Alex Pareene

Stupid Politicians Vain Most Them Many

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