Bryce

"I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair I’ll fix it,"

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Mitt Romney, yesterday night (1/31/2012)

In which Romney admits that “the very poor” are, apparently, not Americans - and that the “safety net” works just fine anyway. Says the rich like the Pope white dood…

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"But this idea that knowledge can be separated from facts - that we can know without knowing - really needs to be challenged before it gains any further currency. It’s wonderful beyond words that we humans can look things up, whether in books or from the web, but that doesn’t mean that the contents of our memory doesn’t matter. Understanding comes from context, and context comes from knowing stuff. Facts become most meaningful when, thanks to the miracle of memory, we weave them together in our minds into something much greater: personal knowledge and, if we’re lucky, wisdom."

- Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The Summers’ Tale (via infoneer-pulse)

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