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by Marián Leško

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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich

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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

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Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education by Glen Wright

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Convention obliges me to self-effacingly declare that any errors or omissions are my own. They are not. If you spot any, please alert me immediately so I can work out who is to blame.

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“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: journalism, public-opinion

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“Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that today’s athletes churn through the rosters of sports teams so rapidly that a fan can no longer support a group of players. He is reduced to rooting for their team logo and uniforms: “You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

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“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.”
― Warren Ellis

tags: journalism, writing

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“Is it hard?'
Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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“I check my phone messages and email about forty-five times a day. I don’t even know what I’m expecting to get in these messages. Maybe Visa will call and say, “We just realized that we owe you money!” or I’ll get an email from a high school classmate that says, “We’ve reconsidered and we’ve decided you were cool after all.” Whatever”
― Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

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