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be kind, rewind.

Unthinking is the ability to apply years of learning at the crucial moment by removing your thinking self from the equation. Its power is not confined to sport: actors and musicians know about it too, and are apt to say that their best work happens in a kind of trance. Thinking too much can kill not just physical performance but mental inspiration. Bob Dylan, wistfully recalling his youthful ability to write songs without even trying, described the making of “Like a Rolling Stone” as a “piece of vomit, 20 pages long”. It hasn’t stopped the song being voted the best of all time.

thenewinquiry: So while the difference between the Syrian police and the American police is incredibly significant, it isn’t one of fundamental kind: the police do what the political class tells them to do, enforcing whatever order it is that the state deems legitimate. Aaron Bady, Political Language on Police States and Political Language (Photo: Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune, captioned “A Chicago police officer throws a punch at a protester who broke a stick over another officer’s head.”)

thenewinquiry:

So while the difference between the Syrian police and the American police is incredibly significant, it isn’t one of fundamental kind: the police do what the political class tells them to do, enforcing whatever order it is that the state deems legitimate.

Aaron Bady, Political Language on Police States and Political Language

(Photo: Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune, captioned “A Chicago police officer throws a punch at a protester who broke a stick over another officer’s head.”)

feministdisney:

A few snapshots: Race, Culture, & Disney

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racebending: 90% of Young Adult book covers in 2011 featured a white character.

racebending:

90% of Young Adult book covers in 2011 featured a white character.

Tofu Pho @ Pho Hoa

Tofu Pho @ Pho Hoa

Those who are saying the game is changing for the worse, well, they don’t have a father who can’t remember his name because of the game. I’m pretty sure if everybody had to wake with their dad not knowing his name, not knowing his kids’ name, not being able to function at a normal rate after football, they would understand that the game needs to change. If it doesn’t there are going to be more players, more great players, being affected by the things that we know of and aren’t changing. That’s not right.

—Junior Seau on whether football is becoming too soft. (via dbreunig)

(via dbreunig)