February 2011
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January 2011
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This hour has seven minutes.
aedison:
So here’s the deal: there are about thirteen weeks left in the semester. By the end of those thirteen weeks, I’m going to have written an hour of material. I’m going to perform it as a show called In Memoriam, and I’m going to film it and put it on the internet for free. (And maybe I’ll sell a physical copy that I’ll sign, and stuff.)
I should make something clear: it is ridiculous...
“We need to cut these things that aren’t constitutionally mandated, that are kind...”
– Sarah Palin, on President Obama’s State of the Union address, to Fox News’ Greta von Susteren, Jan. 26, 2011.
(via technipol)
I said I wasn’t going to post about her. But THIS is infuriating.
(via apsies)
Not constitutionally mandated? Has she not read the Constitution of the Commonwealth of...
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Does not compute
In as fine a column as I’ve seen on the Egyptian uprising, Ross Douthat argues that despite being an American ally, Hosni Mubarack’s rule helped bring about the conditions that led to the September 11 terrorist attacks
-Conor Friedersdorf, the Daily Dish
“Shelton also told Salon that the future senator gave him the nickname “Wizard,”...”
– George Allen: Great Racist Of Our Time
This guy is literally unbelievable. He was a representative, senator, and governor. And he called black people “niggers” and “[h]is law office included not only Confederate flags, but a noose hung from a tree.”
Seriously, Virginia.
Seriously.
(via...
What "cage-free," "fertile" and other egg labels... →
For all you dirty hippies.
xntrek:
clapifyoulikeme:
indefensible:
My passport expires in 7 days. Finally. Because the motherfucker on my passport in 2001 looks older than I do today. He looks angry, and sweaty, and like it’s a 43c day [snip]
My thought process on this:
Wow, Australian passports don’t last very long, do they? I mean, 2001, that’s only—oh. Oh god. No. It can’t be 10 years since 2001. That was...
indefensible:
My passport expires in 7 days. Finally. Because the motherfucker on my passport in 2001 looks older than I do today. He looks angry, and sweaty, and like it’s a 43c day and he’s leaving for abroad in two days and the passport office screwed up his passport and so he has to get a new one TODAY and pay a massive fee TODAY. Which also means that he looks like the kind of guy that...
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Man, let me tell you
Watching Big Love is very different this time around.
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1870 Guide to New York City Brothels
Via Sociological Images:
The New York Times has made available a digital copy of The Gentleman’s Directory, a guide to New York City published in 1870. The guidebook informs travelers of a particular type of local attraction: brothels. Of course, the information was for curiosity’s sake only:
Also, fascinating to the nerdier among us:
Interestingly, the NYT checked the 1870 Census for the...
Do Nothing for 2 Minutes →
Like it says on the tin.
Whatever You Do, Don't Buy an Airline Ticket On … →
BOOKMARKED.
If you know anyone in egypt.
aatombomb:
carpe-cerevisi:
If you know anyone in Egypt, please pass this on to them. To bypass government blocking of websites, use numerical IP addresses: Twitter ”128.242.240.52” Fb ”69.63.189.34” Google ”172.14.204.99”. A French ISP offers free dial up internet access ~ +33 1 72 89 01 50 Login password: toto. Please pass this on and share.
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Harper's Magazine employees hold fundraiser to... →
clapifyoulikeme:
Reasons you should help:
It’s been around since before the Civil War.
It has absolutely the most insane and amazing and impressive list of contributors ever.
Do you really want The New Yorker to win the “magazine with a flap on the front” war?
It’s my favorite magazine and I will cry if it ends up getting taken away.
If you think I won’t keep posting this until...
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erinmargrethe:
Random Rants & Rumblings: Who I am.
claviusrobinsky:
I’m a Mormon. I have been my whole life. I was born into the church and grew up in it. When I was an early teen I began to go a different route. Even when I bore no outward signs of my beliefs and was living in direct contradiction to those beliefs I could never deny them.
I am no stranger to…
I am, and always...
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Harper's Magazine employees hold fundraiser to... →
Reasons you should help:
It’s been around since before the Civil War.
It has absolutely the most insane and amazing and impressive list of contributors ever.
Do you really want The New Yorker to win the “magazine with a flap on the front” war?
It’s my favorite magazine and I will cry if it ends up getting taken away.
Barack Obama's Facebook news feed for the past two... →
Generally I assume you kids read Slate or don’t, but I actually laughed out loud at a few of these, so perhaps you will as well.
Granted, I’m a little sleep-deprived.
“What do you mean my phone doesn’t come in white? What kind of fresh hell is...”
– I think what I love most about Michele is how in the middle of a serious, sobering, thought-provoking rant, she makes me laugh out loud.
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Wait, everybody DOESN'T know this?
I’m continually surprised at how many people don’t understand the three-fifths compromise in the original U.S. Constitution, usually describing it somewhat like Cord Jefferson does: “the three-fifths compromise, in which the government decided that black slaves were subhuman”. The clear implication here that the Constitution codified a black slave was worth only 60% of a...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Sally Kern Proposes Bill That... →
Kern also proclaimed that homosexuality is comparable to “toe-cancer”
UK to Deport Lesbian Asylum Seeker—To Uganda →
Go sign the petition. They will kill this woman.
“First of all, Abigail, popcorn is not a BUTTER DELIVERY SYSTEM.”
– Avery Edison.
“The Tribune explains that a person who eats eight Samoas “could be taking...”
– Looks Like We Picked the Wrong Week to Join the Girl Scouts
JESUS CHRIST. And now what am I supposed to do? Only eat one Samoa? Great. Hating the Boy Scouts was one thing, I can get popcorn anywhere, but this? this is THE WORST NEWS OF ALL TIME.
I don't know if any of you are interested in...
As the NDP’s headquarters burn, there were fears that the Egyptian National Museum, which houses some of the world’s most ancient artifacts from the old Egyptian civilization and a beautiful collection of ancient whales fossils, would catch on fire too. There were earlier reports - albeit unconfirmed - that some people were looting the museum.
Now Al Jazeera is reporting that young...
“My sister once lost several dozen pounds after writing a large check to the...”
– A Political Diet - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Hmm, but who is the current incarnation of David Duke?
Also, when making that post, I forgot that I...
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New internet rules (for myself)
dulltrev:
dulltrev:
1. Everyone on the internet is a stranger.
You may think you know someone online. You don’t. The internet provides only a glimpse of who that person is, a highly edited view that they make themselves. Some are more open than others. Some hold back from shyness. Some hold back because they do it all the time. Some hold back because they don’t want you to know parts of them....
The Taxonomy Of Zits →
Totally fascinating.
I love the subcategories of blackheads.
Shut up.
“NOM’s at it again. National Organization for Marriage continues to push a...”
– Pam’s House Blend:: Can Marriage Be Saved From Southern Christians?
I kind of feel like letting gays get married would probably DECREASE out-of-wedlock births…
Like you've never straight up shot "buttery spray"...
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“You’d think that people would be over it, and on to a different sort of...”
– A 19-year-old I know, in response to this.
Overthinking in the A.M.
I keep wanting to tell people that they’ve unfollowed me and then worrying that maybe they never were in the first place and I just thought they were and that’s totally awkward and I should probably make a spreadsheet.
Or get friends offline.
Or the spreadsheet.
Saying "Literally" All The Time Is Literally An... →
This is literally an awesome piece.
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Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother is even better...
shoesonwrong:
“I wanted her to be well rounded and have hobbies and activities. Not just any activity, like ‘crafts’, which can lead nowhere — or even worse, playing the drums, which leads to drugs[.]”
ARB Gilmore Girls, use of brackets within quotation.
Which Of These Ten Magical Items Would You Choose?... →
nickdouglas:
A pot that can produce 1,000 kilograms of any food a day.
A bracelet that keeps weather perfect wherever you go and within a 250 kilometre radius.
A necklace that allows you to touch books and instantly absorb knowledge from them, without reading.
An unlimited bottle of perfume that will make you wildly attractive to the opposite sex (or same sex if you’re gay),...
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Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Is Beaten to Death →
Thank you, American evangelicals. I hope you feel guilty for what you’ve contributed to. But I bet you’re just celebrating.
