March 2012
19 posts
Omar Khayyam (67)
They say that drunkards
are consigned to hell; but that makes no sense
and the heart cannot accept it.
If lovers and lushes
are going to hell,
tomorrow heaven will be
as empty as my hand.
Translated by Juan Cole from [pdf] Whinfield 67
Denver watercolor
“I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”
— Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (via classicsreader)
GENERATION GEO-DUMB
Thanks for the submission, fortnightjournal!
“This is a pop quiz.” Fifty-four eyes rolled. “David Helgren was a geography professor at the University of Miami, he lost his job as a result of this quiz. I would like to keep my job, so please give this the old college try, hmm?”
Do you think you could pass the quiz? Do you want to find out?
“…the “war on science” has ballooned long past any mere attack upon the credibility of researchers and professors. It now manifests as a general “war on all knowledge castes” — including teachers, economists, journalists, civil servants, medical doctors, skilled labor, judges, diplomats… everyone (in other words) who actually knows a lot. All are routinely attacked on you-know-which-murdochian-“news”-network.”
—David Brin (via azspot)
