'Never Has Politics Felt So Personal to Me' - New York Times
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Deadly Attack in London
3. With 1,000 years of monarchy and 400 years of democracy, those who think any cowardly act of violence will bring this great nation to its knees are seriously mistaken.
— Russell Game in London, reacting to an article about an assailant in London who mowed down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer outside Parliament.
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Hosni Mubarak Freed in Egypt
4. Hosni Mubarak saved his country from a fatal civil war that could have left Egypt in a situation similar to that in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and other Arab nations whose leaders refused to step down from power. The man resigned from office only 21 days after protests began.
I see this as a good incentive for other leaders in politically unstable countries to step down from power peacefully and not be deterred by unnecessary consequences on their personal lives that may otherwise save thousands of lives and resources.
— Walid in Hungary, reacting to an article about Hosni Mubarak’s release from a Cairo hospital where he was detained for six years.
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Cardiovascular Deaths Linked to Bad Diets
5. It seems to me that individuals and their “poor dietary choices” are being blamed for what is a major crisis in mass food production. Why blame individuals when major, profit-making corporations are producing unhealthy food and being allowed to sell it as a “healthy choice”? Why blame individuals when consumerism is encouraged, when convenience is encouraged, when bad food choices come with a smaller price tag than healthy choices?
— Jaci Wiley on The Times’s Facebook page, responding to an article about the link between poor dietary choices and the more than 600,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease in the United States each year.
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Army Veteran Charged With Murder
6. Are we going to talk about the radicalization of white men in this country?
— Kris Fleming on The Times’s Facebook page, responding to an article about a white Army veteran who stabbed a black man in Manhattan.
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Is Happiness Relative? Or Just Scandinavian?
7. I am so tired of hearing the U.S. compared to (insert Scandinavian country here). Everyone sends kids to the same sorts of preschools, kids dress the same, even eat the same snacks. I’m guessing that’s what the real deal is with these countries — people are basically the same in how they live their lives.
So you can’t scream diversity is the key to everything in the U.S. and then find the U.S. lacking because it can’t achieve the same level of “happiness” (however that is judged) with a homogeneous culture. It’s not going to work.
— Rebecca Tchernoff on The Times’s Facebook page, responding to an article about Norway being named the happiest country this year.
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John Mayer Fights for Fandom
8. I was one of John’s die-hard African-American female fans. There were a ton of us who bought his music, enjoyed his concerts and yes, lusted after him. And then the infamous interviews where he essentially castigated all of us.
I’m a fairly grounded person but man, that stung. In the “reformed John” interviews and subsequent apologies, I still see a man far too focused on navel-gazing than looking outward. I still think he’s an amazing guitarist and songwriter. My hope for him now is that the Universe brings him that wife and baby … and that the child is a girl.
— T.S. in Phoenix, Ariz., reacting to an article about the singer John Mayer, trying for a comeback of sorts after two career-crushing interviews — including one in which he used a racial slur.
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Rick Perry Questions Electoral Legitimacy at Texas A&M
9. Imagine if Rick Perry took running the Department of Energy as seriously as that student election.
— Melissa Rodas on The Times’s Facebook page, responding to an article about Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s op-ed in The Houston Chronicle criticizing the outcome of a student body election at Texas A&M University.
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A Debate on Sushi
10. Sugarfish is basically high-end fast food. We know it’s not super-authentic and we don’t care, because honestly, it’s nice to walk into a restaurant knowing exactly how something is going to taste, exactly what it’s going to cost (this review failed to mention their no-tipping model) and that you’ll kill an hour or two in a fun, young environment without paying insane prices.
— Sfish in New York, reacting to a review of the sushi restaurant Sugarfish.
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