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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ana Marie Cox

In other news: boredom is always counter-revolutionary

Michelle Bachmann GOP debate
Michele Bachmann. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

• I think it's awesome that the Wall Street Journal editorial board has the best interests of the Democratic party at heart.

• And speaking of conservative concern trolls, David Frum must be a blast at cocktail parties:

"And it is this argument that has led so many of my friends to demand, sometimes bemusedly, sometimes angrily, 'What the hell happened to you?' I could fire the same question back: 'Never mind me – what happened to you?'"

• Former frontrunner Cain gets the least debate time of all candidates. Insert your own pizza joke here.

• Well, glad that's settled: "US court rules that Twitter users have no 'reasonable expectation of privacy'."

The really experimental direction of situationist activity consists in setting up, on the basis of more or less clearly recognised desires, a temporary field of activity favorable to these desires. This alone can lead to the further clarification of these simple basic desires, and to the confused emergence of new desires whose material roots will be precisely the new reality engendered by situationist constructions.

• "This is not a song about f***ing drinking," replied [Titus Andronicus'] Stickles, agitated. "This is a song about f***ing justice."

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