“There is a continuous dialectic interplay between the mind and its environment, and … our perceptions of objects and events are no less a part of consciousness than are our fantasies.”

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005), viii.

II.

“You can boast your magnificent lawn and spacious rooms, but face it—you live in the Quad. You will psyche yourself out that it’s not so bad, but on that occasional night where you’re standing around freezing at 3:30am, you’ll think about the hundreds of hours you light on fire because of living in the Quad and you’ll shed a little tear for the cold arbitrariness of life.”

June Wu, FlyByBlog

III.

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Quad to the Science Center: 2689 ft.
Eliot to the Science Center: 2597 ft.
Mather to the Science Center: 3039 ft.

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Uh, glad that one’s been entered into the permanent record!?

Right now, word on the street is the police will arrest 75 people—the product of a bizarre and counterintuitive haggling process. The organizers had been pushing for 100 arrests, I’m told. The more arrests, the more attention they get. But the police didn’t want to go above 25. Eventually they settled on 75. But now, with 3 p.m. receding, it’s unclear if anyone is going to the slammer.

The protesters decide to step it up a notch. “If you want to get arrested, please go over to the gate now and sit down,” says a girl wearing a green helmet and wielding a green folder. “Those who don’t want to be arrested, please come over this way.” The two groups separate.

I would love to know exactly how that “haggling process” happened.

Well, we’d like to extend a similar welcome.

In case you’re having trouble reading that, it’s Bob Dole singing:

What up G’s. Bob Dole in the hizzouse.
I’m packin’ policies to incentivize ownership of small bizznouse.
We stackin’ the Supremes to protect every fee-touse.
We smackin’ down the liberals who never pray to Jeez-ouse.
The gays and the lesbians be sayin’ “I deserve a spizzouse,”
But marriage, it be jus’ between a mistah and a mizzouse!
Yeah, Represent. Pfizer, Inc. Word.

Now, three years later, the Grand Old Party is going through an “off the hook” makeover to boost Republican street cred in “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

If there are any other beleaguered political parties out there who want some great ideas, we’ve got plenty more.

“That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus,” said James F. Reda, founder and managing director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting firm.

It might be that Gregg, looking at an upcoming reelection campaign in two years, thinking that his state has been trending Democratic as the southern part of New Hampshire becomes a colony of liberal Massachusetts, that he may lose.