Diplomacia e Relações Internacionais
Um leitor habitual deste blog, nos remete uma coleção de frases do mais iconoclasta dos escritores americanos no último meio século...
- Revising U.s. Grand Strategy Toward China - A Council On Foreign Relations Report
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands following the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. (AP) Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward...
- Eua: Um Modo Inventivo De Producao - Scientific American
In today's excerpt -- in the first half of the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, and America had become a nation of inventors. In 1845, a new publication -- Scientific American -- was founded to take advantage of this new...
- Ajuda Alimentar Dos Eua: Uma Hipocrisia Parcialmente Corrigida
Não elimina o viés assistencialista, mas é menos distorcivo que o esquema anterior. EDITORIAL Food Aid Reform By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The New York Times, April 27, 2013 Food aid is one of the most important tools of American foreign policy. Since the...
- Stephen Jay Gould On “the Bell Curve”
Stephen Jay Gould on “The Bell Curve” Abagond, Sat 10 Jul 2010 Disclaimer: I have not read “The Bell Curve” for myself. The following is based instead on Stephen Jay Gould’s take on it. As a professor of biology at Harvard he knows the science...
- Cuba: Sinizacao Em Curso (ditadura Capitalista)...
Os dirigentes cubanos pretendem "achinesar" -- ou sinificar -- um pouco o seu sistema, ou seja: manter a ditadura férrea do Partido Comunista (que hoje é apenas uma nomenklatura gerontocrática) ao mesmo tempo em que brincam de capitalismo. Não tenho...
Diplomacia e Relações Internacionais
Gore Vidal: um frasista desbocado...
Um leitor habitual deste blog, nos remete uma coleção de frases do mais iconoclasta dos escritores americanos no último meio século...
...Gore Vidal...o Millôr "yankee"...!
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."
"Never have children, only grand children."
"Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs."
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
"Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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- Revising U.s. Grand Strategy Toward China - A Council On Foreign Relations Report
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands following the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. (AP) Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward...
- Eua: Um Modo Inventivo De Producao - Scientific American
In today's excerpt -- in the first half of the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, and America had become a nation of inventors. In 1845, a new publication -- Scientific American -- was founded to take advantage of this new...
- Ajuda Alimentar Dos Eua: Uma Hipocrisia Parcialmente Corrigida
Não elimina o viés assistencialista, mas é menos distorcivo que o esquema anterior. EDITORIAL Food Aid Reform By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The New York Times, April 27, 2013 Food aid is one of the most important tools of American foreign policy. Since the...
- Stephen Jay Gould On “the Bell Curve”
Stephen Jay Gould on “The Bell Curve” Abagond, Sat 10 Jul 2010 Disclaimer: I have not read “The Bell Curve” for myself. The following is based instead on Stephen Jay Gould’s take on it. As a professor of biology at Harvard he knows the science...
- Cuba: Sinizacao Em Curso (ditadura Capitalista)...
Os dirigentes cubanos pretendem "achinesar" -- ou sinificar -- um pouco o seu sistema, ou seja: manter a ditadura férrea do Partido Comunista (que hoje é apenas uma nomenklatura gerontocrática) ao mesmo tempo em que brincam de capitalismo. Não tenho...