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America needs to have an honest debate about private equity. Not the biased rhetoric we’ve gotten so far.

Let’s be honest about private equity – The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet

My credit card company knows far more about my shopping history than my physician knows about my medical history

Paging Dr. Siri — Marginal Revolution

Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.

RAW quote: disobedience was man’s original virtue – Boing Boing

Au moins six mois d’incarcération dans un camp de travail à quiconque (…) n’a pas pleuré assez [pendant le deuil].

Des Nord-coréens punis après la mort de Kim Jong-il | Atlantico

In North Korea, we lock up the criminally insane. In America, you let them debate on TV. Right now you have people running for President I would not trust to take care of my plants.

A Letter from Kim Jong-un « Borowitz Report

la performance est le nom nouveau du pouvoir absolu. La marche technologique balaye les faibles, comme les guerres d’autrefois : elle réinvente le sacrifice humain, de façon douce.” Pierre Legendre

Blog M@rs-lab – Performance sociale : la performance, autrement

People who viewed an image of a dead cat (.) after recalling a newly learned Swahili word were better at later remembering the word

Ouch: A Year’s Worth of Occasionally Disturbing Research on How to Get Ahead – Andrew O’Connell – Harvard Business Review

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Unquote | Futility Closet

In 2002, Ruth Lilly donated $200 million to Poetry magazine, which had a circulation of 10,000 and annual budget of $700,000.

Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine still hearing criticism even as they move in new direction – chicagotribune.com