20 5 / 2013

Kenyon College’s 2005 Commencement Address, given by David Foster Wallace:

This is the full version of a video I posted earlier here.

By the way, if this is your reaction to the video…

…you’re doing it wrong.

20 5 / 2013

While we’re on the subject of hypocrisy…

20 5 / 2013

Gruber:

What rankles about Google is their hypocrisy.

Relevant. Also relevant.

We’ve had a banner week for Google hypocrisy.

20 5 / 2013

The West Wing 222 - Two Cathedrals - President Bartlet shouts at God (by genius7082)

20 5 / 2013

merlin:

Fantastic Four Vol. 2, #5AU

Ugh.

Once you get over the nihilism, atheism is very unforgiving when it comes to ethics.

20 5 / 2013

19 5 / 2013

17 5 / 2013

Drew Magary, in an excerpt from his new book, which I’m probably going to buy now that I’ve read this bit:

When I was single and saw parents losing it with their kids, I used to frown at them. I’ll never be like that, I promised myself. But single people are pathetically naive. They don’t know what it’s like to spend fourteen consecutive hours with a child. They don’t understand how that massive span of time allows for every single possible human emotion to be bared: anger, fear, jealousy, love … all of it. More to the point, they don’t realize what little assholes kids can be. They have no idea.

15 5 / 2013

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14 5 / 2013