Christoph Arlick recommended Don't make fun of renowned Dan Brown - Telegraph from telegraph.co.uk:

Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant an inevitable attack on the rich novelist by the wealthy wordsmith’s fiercest foes. The critics.

Christoph Arlick recommended Robbie Rogers: why coming out as gay meant I had to leave football from m.guardian.co.uk:

"Secrets can cause so much internal damage," Rogers wrote. "People love to preach about honesty, how honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25 years you are gay."

Christoph Arlick recommended Out of Africa from grantland.com:

Wangmene, exhausted, stepped out of the terminal in Wichita Mid-Continent Airport around midnight on Christmas Eve. He wore a paper-thin sweater as he stepped into the freezing cold. I'm here, he thought. Now what?

Christoph Arlick recommended Procrastination Is Not Laziness from thoughtcatalog.com:

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.

Christoph Arlick recommended How to master your life from abetterlife.quora.com:

The first lesson from The Sims is good decisions require little thought. To get fit: exercise. To be smarter: read. To eat healthier: cook. Such mechanics are elementary to a child playing the game, but when leading your own life, your mischievous mind paralyses you with too much thinking. Stop holding out for perfect decisions. Pick. Act.

Christoph Arlick recommended Like Magic from grantland.com:

"They didn't allow us to ever give an excuse for anything," Livingston said. "You thought, This is crazy. But you know what? You wind up doing it. No excuses. If you don't go through life making excuses, you save yourself, your friends, and parents a lot of trouble."

Christoph Arlick recommended Falser Words Were Never Spoken from nytimes.com:

When you start to become aware of these bogus quotations, you can’t stop finding them. Henry James, George Eliot, Picasso — all of them are being kept alive in popular culture through pithy, cheery sayings they never actually said.

Christoph Arlick recommended Why liberal arts education matters: the story of a Drucker (mis-)quote from blog.chaddickerson.com:

I just think that being successful in a modern society requires a broader understanding of humanity and people, and the liberal arts and humanities are important ingredients

Christoph Arlick recommended The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist from wired.com:

Bill Rothstein may have appeared to be just a man who owned a house next to a TV tower. But he turned out to be hiding a dark secret. On September 20, less than a month after the bomb killed Wells, Rothstein called 911. “At 8645 Peach Street, in the garage, there is a frozen body,” he told the police dispatcher, referring to his own address. “It’s in the freezer.”

Christoph Arlick recommended US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans from m.guardian.co.uk:

At the age of 23, William Busbee had joined a gruesome statistic. In 2012, for the first time in at least a generation, the number of active-duty soldiers who killed themselves, 177, exceeded the 176 who were killed while in the war zone. To put that another way, more of America's serving soldiers died at their own hands than in pursuit of the enemy.

Christoph Arlick recommended Männer und Frauen und all der Scheiß from kaliban.de:

Es geht ja in den meisten dieser Situationen gar nicht um Sex oder auch nur um das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern, sondern um das Feststellen eines Machtgefälles. Der Brüderle wollte die Stern-Journalistin auch vermutlich nicht aufreißen, sondern nur mal eben klarstellen, wer hier der Herr im Haus ist. Oder meint jemand, der würde zu Frau Merkel auch Bemerkungen über die Tüten machen? Oder Christine Lagarde mit anzüglichen Bemerkungen bedenken.

Christoph Arlick recommended Tschüss, Kotzbrocken! from taz.de:

Nein, Schünemann, war der ideelle Gesamtinnenminister Deutschlands, ach was: Er war der beste, weil dümmste Innenminister der westlichen Welt. Ob Handyverbote für Terroristen, Bundeswehreinsätze gegen Killerspiele oder Fußfesseln für Schulschwänzer, ob Nachtischverbot für Stützeempfänger, Arbeitsdienst für Fünfjährige oder Hymnenpflicht für Blogger – keine Forderung, die zu absonderlich oder zu faschistoid gewesen wäre, als dass Schünemann im Laufe seiner zehnjährigen Amtszeit sie nicht erhoben hätte oder bei der man hätte sicher sein können, dass er sie nicht noch irgend[…]

Christoph Arlick recommended Der Glanz der Anderen from trainer-baade.de:

Die Attraktivität der Bundesliga definiert sich für viele, nicht alle, aber einen erklecklichen Anteil der Zuschauer über den Erfolg des eigenen Clubs, nicht über Starnamen in der gegnerischen Truppe. Einzig gegen solche zu gewinnen macht die Angelegenheit reizvoller als vorher. Genau diesen zusätzlichen Anreiz hätte aber wohl kein Fan in Deutschland für Partien gegen den FC Bayern benötigt.

Christoph Arlick recommended Chelsea channel David Bowie, but they're beating up the wrong guy from m.guardian.co.uk:

This is after all a question everybody who watches football has asked themselves, even those of us who exist at a level of dismal park-pitch mediocrity.

Christoph Arlick recommended The Doctor, the CIA, and the Blood of Bin Laden from gq.com:

As the doctor made his rounds in Abbottabad, back in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama and a small circle of senior advisers were fixated on a single question: Was Osama bin Laden concealed inside that three-story house?