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How a Gun-Loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons | xoJane

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OK, just that once

Bruce Willis on gun control:

“No one commits a crime because they saw a film. There’s nothing to support that,” Willis said. “We’re not making movies about people that have gone berserk, or gone nuts. Those kind of movies wouldn’t last very long at all.”

Nope.

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Enduring Meaning in an Old Medium

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“On Monday, the prosecution filed a final document in criminal case No. 11-er-10260. “The United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, hereby dismisses the case presently pending against Defendant Aaron Swartz. In support of this dismissal, the government states that Mr. Swartz died on January 11, 2013.” The paper was signed by Ortiz and Heymann. It was then duly filed in PACER, where it is available to anybody for 10 cents, or 10 cents more than Swartz thought people should have to pay for a public document.”
—   Aaron Swartz’s Unbending Prosecutors Insisted on Prison Time - The Daily Beast

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Playboy Interview: George Carlin | Longform

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On Painting: On Painting and Algorithms

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“Leonardo drew things to explain them to himself…. That’s an essential quality of any work of art, the authenticity of the need for understanding. I once told Barney [Newman] a story which he wanted to adopt as the motto for the Abstract Expressionists: A little girl is drawing and her mother asks her what are you drawing? And she says, “I’m drawing god.” And the mother says, “How can you draw god when you don’t know what he is?” And she says, “That’s why I draw him.”
—   The Last Irascible by Sarah Boxer | The New York Review of Books

Joy by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books

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The Paris Review — www.theparisreview.org — Readability

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