Daily chart: how long leaders stay in office in different countries. Countries in the Middle East tend to hold on to their leaders longer than anywhere else (a little over eight years on average). Africa comes next at more than seven years.
At a League of Nations conference in 1933, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels remains seated while speaking to his interpreter. German-born Alfred Eisenstaedt, later one of the founding photographers of LIFE, recalled that Goebbels smiled at him until he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish — a moment Eisenstaedt captured in this photo. Suddenly, “he looked at me with hateful eyes and waited for me to wither,” the photographer recalled. “But I didn’t wither.” Not only didn’t he wither, he managed to take perhaps the most chilling portrait of pure evil to run in LIFE’s pages.
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Pat Boone - I’ll Be Home
“Pat Boone sang softly, ‘I’ll Be Home’. Time seemed to flow in the wrong direction, which was fine by me. Time could go whichever way it pleased.”
— Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
What is Spirit Day?
Millions of Americans wear purple on Spirit Day as a sign of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth and to speak out against bullying. Spirit Day was started in 2010 by teenager Brittany McMillan as a response to the young people who had taken their own lives. Observed annually on October 20, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, media professionals and celebrities wear purple, which symbolizes spirit on the rainbow flag. Getting involved is easy — participants are asked to simply “go purple” on October 20 as we work to create a world in which LGBT teens are celebrated and accepted for who they are. Learn more & go purple at www.glaad.org/spiritday.
We’ve got no reservations about supporting such a meaningful cause, and want to encourage you to consider going purple tomorrow! If you do, post a picture with the tag #purpleteachers.
I’ll be wearing purple tomorrow. Will you?
As one reads history… one is absolutely sickened not by the crimes the wicked have committed, but by the punishments the good have inflicted.
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| — | Oscar Wilde (via slaughterhousefive) |
We all need some therapy, because somebody came along and said, “‘Liberal’ means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on Communism, soft on defense, and we’re gonna tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn’t have to go to work if they don’t want to!” And instead of saying, “Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, Leave It To Beaver trip back to the Fifties…!”, we cowered in the corner, and said, “Please. Don’t. Hurt. Me.” No more.
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| — | Bruno Gianelli, The West Wing 3x06, “Gone Quiet” (via tachyonpython) |
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I had nothing else to do. Writing gave me something to do every day.
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| — | William S. Burroughs (via theparisreview) |
