Monthly Archives: February 2009

Leaders

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

I have been ingesting large swathes of Qin Dynasty and modern Chinese history, economy and culture. It is fed directly to me trough-style in the forms of books, articles, films and lectures. This has created an intellectual digestive problem “something akin to packing a musket” (Sedaris, 88-89). I am so full of cultural soil that [...]

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Worth reposting, worth remembering.

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

from metafilter Remember, if you owe the bank a thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank. If the bank owes you five hundred billion dollars, the bank owns your whole country. posted by Justinian at 12:13 PM on February 5 [8 favorites +] [!] [...]

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