American soldier mourns fallen Afghan comrade; a powerful image that leads me to ask: again, why are we there? http://t.co/GlQbBccI

Dear most designers: torturing outdated images to try to convey meaning sucks. You suck. Take a trip to Switzerland or something.

RT @AmandaMarcotte http://t.co/hhAqrAg1 Great news! Norway has abandoned having an official state church. Freedom of religion supported near-unanimously.

Mac/iPhone text nerds: Byword or Nebulous for plain-text DropBox sync, Evernote (+ export later) for rich media sync-JustNotes is for clowns

RT @CornelWest To be modern is to be suspicious of authority telling you how to choose.

If you’re not mega-rich and you accept the view that the federal government’s debt is one of the big issues, you are a serf peasant moron.

The garden is already showing some yield http://t.co/tC348hqn

“@suigenerisjen: Christopher Hitchens recognised for moral courage, commitment to objective truth” Yeah right, did you read his Iraq pieces?

I thought I turned off other people’s highlights from Kindle. That feature just shows how most people read for zingers and miss the points.

These people know how to party: take a big red comfy chair, cram it in a sloping hallway, and position selves awkwardly http://t.co/qatCLlLp