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ID:2112
Title:Normblog
URL:http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/
Category:Society: Politics
Description:Norman Geras shares his political thoughts in an academic and balanced manner.
Gilad Shalit in Rome - 2012-05-21 12:51:17
A report from the Jewish Daily Forward that is worth relaying in full: Thousands of Italians cheered Gilad Shalit when the former captive Israeli soldier went to Rome's City Hall, the Campidoglio, where he officially received honorary citizenship of the...

Obtrusive surface - 2012-05-21 12:19:58
I'd never read a novel by Don DeLillo, so I thought I'd try one. I tried Cosmopolis and gave up on page 55. Maybe it was too soon; maybe it was the wrong one to try. I'm happy to listen...

Screw-ups headed your way - 2012-05-21 11:51:45
Some good stuff in these remarks by Aaron Sorkin at Syracuse University's 158th Commencement: There's another story. Two newborn babies are lying side by side in the hospital and they glance at each other. Ninety years later, through a remarkable...

Some good stuff in theseremarks by Aaron Sorkinat Syracuse University's 158th Commencement:

There's another story. Two newborn babies are lying side by side in the hospital and they glance at each other. Ninety years later, through a remarkable coincidence, the two are back in the same hospital lying side by side in the same hospital room. They look at each other and one of them says,"So what'd you think?"

It's going to be a very long time before you have to answer that question, but time shifts gears right now and starts to gain speed. Just ask your parents whose heads, I promise you, are exploding right now. They think they took you home from the maternity ward last month. They think you learned how to walk last week. They don't understand how you could possibly be getting a degree in something today. They listened to"Cats in the Cradle"the whole car ride here.
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And make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

And he's only 50! (Via.)