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Gessen isn't the best narrator in the world, but that's a trivial objection really. The future is apparently history in the US as well, and so much for "That's not who we are as Americans," eh?Ken White, aka Popehat, is also good today. ...more "
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I labeled this "currently reading" because I subscribe to A.J. Demas's newsletter, Demas is Alice Degan's alter ego, and a revised version of the first novella of the three in this no-longer-available edition came as a newsletter freebie the other da
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“These two distinct crimes, with their different emphases on the individual and the group, grew side by side, yet over time genocide emerged in the eyes of many as the crime of crimes, a hierarchy that left a suggestion that the killing of large numbers of people as individuals was somehow less terrible.”
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
“You can’t show addicts a picture of a poo and say ‘You could crap like this if you join our rehab program.”
― Burn Me
― Burn Me
“Give me a moment, baby. I just need to roll those words over in my head a couple of times. ‘It’s really hard to climb a stripper pole when you’re wearing an ankle monitor.’ It’s like slutty poetry. I never dared dream that a child of mine would ever utter such a beautiful sentence.”
― Dirty Little Freaks
― Dirty Little Freaks
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“I know getting Vegas married on cocaine is probably not the best start to a marriage”
― The James Dean Vintage
― The James Dean Vintage
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