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I not used to it at all. Nor should anyone else be used to it.

Arianna Huffington: Barack Obama's Memento Presidency:

"We got used to the president making strong promises and then caving -- from closing Guantanamo to not extending the Bush tax cuts for millionaires. Now he's making strong promises he's already broken. He's like a political version of the Guy Pearce character in Memento -- he's figured out a way to break promises outside of the limitations of linear time."

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h/t Dick Cooper:

How Socialists Built America | The Nation

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy were not socialists. But the nation benefited from their borrowing of socialist and social democratic ideas. Barack Obama is certainly not a socialist. But he, and the nation he leads, would be well served by a similar borrowing from the people who once imagined Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the War on Poverty.

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Doomed to repeat. Fascinating.

On Stones in Japan, Tsunami Warnings — Aneyoshi Journal - NYTimes.com:

"ANEYOSHI, Japan — The stone tablet has stood on this forested hillside since before they were born, but the villagers have faithfully obeyed the stark warning carved on its weathered face: “Do not build your homes below this point!”"

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WTF, Apple?

iSpy Conspiracy: Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You've Been | TPM Idea Lab

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Ah. Yeah.

Someone Finally Fulfilled My Dream of Knowing What a Squirrel Wearing Acorn Bling Would Look Like | Uptown Almanac

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