January 2012
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It sucked and then I cried.
December 2011
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Protesters Are Awesome: A 14-Year-Old Occupier... →
Her dad is awesome.
Bartlet's Quotations →
tj:
Bartlet’s Quotations is a new Tumblr which may interest some of you:
A scene from The West Wing.
One a day, every day.
Starting January 1st, 2012.
Think of it as your own “West Wing A Day” calendar.
A few notes:
I am sorry about the title
Not really
There will be quotes from other characters too. I just liked the name too much to pass up.
See points #1 and 2 again.
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Licensing Parents →
jwisser:
clapifyoulikeme:
This is why people think libertarians are craaaaazy.
(No, it doesn’t seem to be satire. And the comments certainly aren’t.)
Via Lawyers, Guns and Money.
You just cherry-picked a suggestion noted by its author for being controversial to other libertarians to represent why you think libertarians as a group are crazy. That’s a sweeping generalisation about a group...
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Choose your own possibly realistic adventure
shitmystudentswrite:
People can do essentially anything and, on top of that, can choose to be a different race and experience a possibly realistic or unrealistic sense of what it is like to be of a different ethnicity.
Relevant to current discussions.
Also, I just really love Shit My Students Write.
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cutlerish replied to your post: cutlerish replied to your post: Buying Cutlerish…
Will you mail me alcohol, then?
Ha! I’m no sucker! I only mail alcohol to certified Nigerian princes!
Licensing Parents →
This is why people think libertarians are craaaaazy.
(No, it doesn’t seem to be satire. And the comments certainly aren’t.)
Via Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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cutlerish replied to your post: Buying Cutlerish so many drinks.
Where and when?
I’m worried if I tell you you’ll steal my password :(
For the lulz: REBLOG IF YOU'RE *KEEPING* MISSING...
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jezebelthegreat replied to your post: I GOT IT!!!
I FEEL SO LEFT OUT, SADFACE
SHUT UP YOU GET A BABY.
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jwisser:
clapifyoulikeme:
jwisser:
clapifyoulikeme replied to your post: ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this…
Well, I’m hardly vetting him. I would look further than Wikipedia for that. I suppose we have different requirements. And, again, there’s the practicality issue, which you’re sidestepping.
I’m not, though. It will only become practical to elect a third party...
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I GOT IT!!!
I got the scaremongering!!!
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Buying Cutlerish so many drinks.
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jwisser:
clapifyoulikeme replied to your post: ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this…
Well, I’m hardly vetting him. I would look further than Wikipedia for that. I suppose we have different requirements. And, again, there’s the practicality issue, which you’re sidestepping.
I’m not, though. It will only become practical to elect a third party candidate if we start voting for third...
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jwisser:
ronbailey replied to your photo: Matt Bors If this does in fact bother you,…
When the libertarians start promising to protect women, children, and minorities against tyranny of the majority, AND start working to dismantle huge corporations that put profits ahead of people, I might quit laughing at them. Till then, no dice.
I suspect you didn’t take the time to look up Gary Johnson’s...
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smartgoat replied to your post: rolandfox replied to your link: Americans See…
It is random dialing, and they do their best to normalize the data. But, people that a) have a landline, b) are home when surveyors call, and c) are willing to answer questions are becoming less and less representative of the population.
I knew one of you nerds would have the answer.
<3
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A few more thoughts on the Reddit/atheist problem
Disclaimer: Aside from having Skepchick in my RSS, I’m not involved in the atheist or skeptic community, nor do I identify as an atheist. I’m presenting these as things that I’ve read from other blogs, not as endorsements of their content. These are obviously excerpts, please click through.
Free Thought Blogs, Yes, “Hate *Atheists*”
This is very much about atheism....
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rolandfox replied to your link: Americans See Obama as Way to Their Left
Do you have to register to be polled by Gallup? I’m picturing 1,019 people who feel like they want to be heard, like they have something to tell THE WHOLE WORLD; and I see them as middle-aged, white Republicans.
I don’t know for sure, but I feel like Gallup wouldn’t be one of the big, trusted polling...
Americans See Obama as Way to Their Left →
So that’s why Republicans are always calling President Obama a socialist — everybody hates socialists, even liberals, even Occupy Wall Streeters. Voters see Obama as the most ideologically extreme 2012 candidate — only Michele Bachmann thought of as almost as far away from Americans’ own ideology as Obama. Here’s our guide to today’s polls and why they...
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ronbailey replied to your photo: jwisser: Matt Bors If this does in fact bother…
When the libertarians start promising to protect women, children, and minorities against tyranny of the majority, AND start working to dismantle huge corporations that put profits ahead of people, I might quit laughing at them. Till then, no dice.
Oh no, you misunderstand. I’m not voting for them....
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starkravingdane asked: There’s a meme that goes...
neil-gaiman:
We’re not a perfect couple. We’re just a couple. We love each other and we get on each others’ nerves. She grits her teeth when she hears me tell the same story for the dozenth time. I grit my teeth when she tells me it’s time to go jogging (but mostly I go with her anyway). She loves crowds and people, I like solitude and the countryside. She’ll go through hell to avoid the cold. I...
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girl-detective replied to your post: I will bang someone for a non-.pdf copy of the Brandeis Brief
That’s what we called a one-night stand in college.
Filthy. You kiss your mother with that mouth?
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That's right. It's coming.
stevenrayorr:
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama has an official name: The Newsroom. Originally known as More As The Story Develops, then as ‘TBA,’ the show’s title was debuted via HBO’s 2012 teaser reel and confirmed by Deadline.
Fucking SQUEE!
MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!
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I will bang someone for a non-.pdf copy of the...
Durex Condoms: A Hundred Million Reasons Not To... →
Wow, this is pretty awful. The South Africa thing is even worse if you’re familiar with sexual violence in South Africa.
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For the Herd’s Sake, Vaccinate →
It makes me sick that in 2012 someone has to take to the New York Times to ask people to vaccinate, because rates are dropping. Based on a discredited, recanted, bullshit report.
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You are awful, too
More on the Reddit thing via Kate Harding. And Skepchick is taking submissions on experiences with sexism in the atheist/secular/skeptic community.
Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists →
Two days ago, 15-year old Redditor Lunam posted a thread called “What My Super Religious Mother Got Me For Christmas“, in which she linked to a photo of herself holding Carl Sagan’s Demon-haunted World.
Read this. Try not to vomit. Think about how the anonymity of the internet allows people to say things that offline would be considered harassment. Ponder if that’s okay, or if online...
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girl-detective asked: I'm glad that, in the end, when forced to choose between feminism and pandas, that you go with feminism ;)
At Least Be Honest
Scott Lemieux:
This won’t be a surprise to longtime readers, but I agree 100% with Atrios about Perry changing his position to oppose abortion in cases of rape or incest. These exemptions cannot be defended coherently, and they’re almost entirely worthless on the ground. Essentially, Perry’s new position amounts to arguing for the same policy in much less politically effective terms, so I say go...
“There are people you do not want to upset in the world. And big groups of people...”
– http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/dont-mess-with-firefly-how.html (via neil-gaiman)
Nail, meet head…
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Avery is eating GOLDEN OREOS.
We’re so over.
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mexicanblondes replied to your post: mexicanblondes replied to your post: Good morning,…
No I’m in the USA but for some reason the calendar has always had boxing day on it.
Probably in case you have one of your monarchal friends over.
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“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need...”
– Sam Seaborn, “Six Meetings Before Lunch”
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mexicanblondes replied to your post: Good morning, Toronto!
B-b-but it’s on my calendar.
Are you in a country that also has the Queen on the money? Because if not, it has no business being on your calendar. If so, Jesus Christ, fucking revolt already, we did it 235 years ago!
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Good morning, Toronto!
Happy Boxing Day!
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punkassjim replied to your post: Popcorn with real butter. Orange juice. Absolut. West Wing.
You are largely responsible for my now watching The West Wing from the beginning. I’ve probably seen roughly 5 episodes ever. And I think I will love this.
Another soul saved!
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I'm jonesing really bad guys. I need to watch 4x17...
stevenrayorr:
Who do I have to fuck to get the set of Season 4 DVDs?
I have the box set, already ripped. I’m watching S07E02 right now. I have a special Sorkin external drive and just use random.org to pick an episode.
If I were into boys I would want to bang Josh. Just saying. As it is, I want to be him, but with more hair.
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Popcorn with real butter. Orange juice. Absolut....
The recipe for a perfect kitchen-cleaning
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stevenrayorr replied to your chat: Mom: We’re going out for Chinese tonight. Me: But…
Methinks that, by giving Christmas Day a usual tradition, you are giving the holiday a significance of sorts and, in your own way, celebrating the birth of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. So, welcome to the JC Club. Can I send you a WWJD bracelet?
You can send me a bite me bracelet.