December 2011
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“The hottest strippers in Miami have been strutting their stuff for a captive...”
– NY Daily News » Strippers smuggled into a Miami jail posing as paralegals
Nope, nothing wrong with our prison system at all.
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clapifyoulikeme replied to your quote: Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the… One of my professors posits that Thoreau didn’t go to the woods to learn to live deliberately so much as because he just really disliked people. I can see it. ...
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“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his...”
– Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
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“But Obama has always been a bit mystified by the politics of the state. His...”
– Fox News » Obama’s Pennsylvania Polka
Fox “News” is awfully opinionated.
As someone who grew up in small-town Pennsylvania, this description cracks me up—and would be hard to call “wrong”, exactly.
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“In between campaign stops in New Hampshire today, Huntsman said that the latest...”
– Huntsman: ‘Bimbo eruptions’ cause for Cain reconsideration
Oh, Huntsman. You’re not wrong—everything about Herman Cain is damaging to the quality of the Republican race, and there wasn’t much to begin with—but insulting the women he harassed, assaulted, or had affairs with...
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MEME EMERGENCY:
I require the Michelle Obama “seems legit” macro and Google Image Search doesn’t know about it. Help me out, Tumblr?
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“An atheist loves his fellow man instead of god. An atheist believes that heaven...”
– Definition of atheism given to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Murray v. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203, 83 S. Ct. 1560, 10 L.Ed.2d (MD, 1963)
I met this woman at Vanderbilt when I was teenaged fundamentalist. She did me more good in ten minutes than anyone else ever did. (via...
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Siri Failures, Illustrated
amaditalks:
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice. Yesterday’s post with screenshots from a Twitter conversation I was a part of has netted 200+ notes the last I looked.
There have been a number of...
Works cited
shitmystudentswrite:
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
Bahahahahahahahahaha.
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“November rain was the first natural phenomenon banned by royal decree following...”
– A Brief Future History of the United States by Ananda Choudry
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Enough with the 2012 "Doomsday" already
dresdencodak:
The Maya did not predict the “end of the world” on December 21, 2012. That date simply happens to be 13.0.0.0.0 on the Long Count calendar, marking the end of the 13th “baktun” (a calendar unit that is 144,000 days long) and starts the beginning of the next baktun. The ending of such a cycle would warrant a really big New Year celebration, which is exactly what the ancient Maya...
timkressfiction asked: Why do so many magicians...
neil-gaiman:
I knew that when I was seven. It was explained in The Magic Bedknob, by Mary Norton. Hang on, I will find the quote:
Gradually, the children discovered other treasures: a chart on which the signs of the zodiac were nicely touched up by Miss Price in water color; a sheep’s skull; a chocolate box full of dried mice; herbs in bunches; a pot of growing hemlock and one of witch’s bane;...
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“Mr. Cain has been informed today that your television station plans to broadcast...”
– Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain | Ginger White
I have to say, I agree with Herman Cain on this point—and I look forward to his condemnation of similar shaming tactics used by the media against Democrats like Anthony Weiner.
(Yeah, I’m not holding my breath.)
But in...
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“I tend to think that if you’re old enough to read and enjoy something and not be...”
– Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is a badass and I would let him teach my children.
(Yes, that is my new metric of trustworthiness. No, none of the Republican candidates for president except maybe Gary Johnson would be allowed to teach my kids.)
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Wall Street Journal » Antsy Voters Look for a... →
Read this. Read this read this read this. (And then read this, and then this.)
America isn’t just ready for a third-party candidate to take a serious run at the presidency. America needs a third-party candidate to take a serious run at the presidency.
“For decades at the very beginning of Mass, the priest has greeted the...”
– New Mass translation launches in American parishes
The old version sent a chill up the spine of even this confirmed non-believer. The new version doesn’t even scan well.
“Late Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann reportedly received...”
– Michele Bachmann receives apology from NBC for song ‘outrage’ - The Washington Post
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Futility Closet » Authors on Authors →
Mark Twain wrote that Jane Austen’s books “madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy. … Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
It’s good to see that there’s some precedent for my antipathy toward George R. R. Martin. Although in his case, I would have to put him into the ground first—a possibility to which...
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WatchOriginal Star Wars/Mahna Mahna Mashup
Every so often, the last-known-good location of this video goes down and I have to find a new one and repost it. This time, it’s from a Hungarian Vimeo analog.
Still, a new Muppets movie is probably a good enough reason to post this—especially since Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy, is also the voice of Yoda.
You may not be aware—I definitely...
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SciFi Hall East
Over the last few years, I’ve watched SciFi Hall become an incredibly close-knit family. In talking to other members of that family who have graduated and are about to graduate, I’ve found that we have the common opinion that graduating out of SciFi Hall is really not okay. There are just too many things—from family dinner to Squidmas, and the fact that your worst enemies on Hall will...
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HEY SCIFI
horrorwine:
CAN’T WE ALL JUST LIVE TOGETHER IN A GIANT COMMUNE TOGETHER PLEASE. I NEED ALL OF YOU IN MY LIFE ALL THE TIME. WE CAN POOL OUR MONEY AND LIVE IN A GIANT APARTMENT FOREVER.
No guys I’m serious. Because I love you all and I don’t want to miss you forever. Because hall is basically my family and I kind of want that for at least a while after I graduate. Because family dinner and...
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“I think the trouble with being a critical thinker or an atheist or a humanist is...”
– Ellen Degeneres (via godlessquotes) (via sixbucks)
Insofar as I can find evidence of anyone with a recognisable name having said this, it’s comedian, actor, and musician Tim Minchin—not Ellen DeGeneres, who is (as far as I can tell) a theist who was raised in a quite serious Christian...
Did you hear about the guy who got so lonely he made genetic copies of himself to be friends with?
He was #foreveraclone.
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“The first door you bust must be your own.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of Holiday Shopping
On the importance of waking up early on Black Friday.
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The Last Airbender: The Legend Of Korra
Official Trailer
You don’t understand how long I have been waiting for this
This.
THIS.
You don’t understand.
What the hell are cars doing in my Avatar?
*strangled excited noises*
Forever reblog.
The cars are a logical civilian extension of the...
