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It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address at Cleveland, Ohio

The Big Lebowski, “Sometimes, There’s a Man”

Way out west there was this fella … fella I wanna tell you about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Lebowski, he called himself “The Dude”.

Now, “Dude”—that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that’s why I found the place so darned interesting.

They call Los Angeles the “City of Angels”. I didn’t find it to be that, exactly. But I’ll allow there are some nice folks there. ’Course I can’t say I’ve seen London, and I ain’t never been to France. And I ain’t never seen no queen in her damned undies, as the fella says. But I’ll tell you what, after seeing Los Angeles and this here story I’m about to unfold, well, I guess I seen something every bit as stupefying as you’d see in any of them other places. And in English, too. So I can die with a smile on my face, without feeling like the good Lord gypped me.

Now this here story I’m about to unfold took place back in the early ’90s—just about the time of our conflict with Saddam and the Iraqis. I only mention it because sometimes there’s a man … I won’t say a hero, ’cause what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a man … and I’m talking about the Dude, here. Sometimes there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he’s a lazy man—and the Dude was most certainly that; quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the running for laziest worldwide. But sometimes, there’s a man … sometimes, there’s a man.

Rolling Jubilee

“Rolling Jubilee … buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it.”

I’m getting a Note 7 as soon as they don’t blow up.

Josh Topolsky, “Paul Ford in the Funny Valley” (Tomorrow)

It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days doing nothing, that he had no time for anything.

Peter Hamilton, Abyss Beyond Dreams

Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who’re selling it to you. Those guys don’t exactly have the greatest track record in the universe.

Peter Hamilton, Abyss Beyond Dreams

DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels, “Nobody Speak”

Lake Street Dive, “Call Off Your Dogs”

XKCD, “Number of Computers”

It’s in the five-four time signature, which, again, is like, you can’t just waltz in there.

Road Work, “Looney Tunes”

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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.

Albert Camus, The Plague

To love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it.

Albert Camus, The Plague