February 2012
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This review gave me a whole new vision of Little... →
missbananafish:
amberguessa:
In case anyone thinks the author of the review at the link is reading into it too much, Rose Wilder Lane (Laura and Almanzo’s only child) was a founder of the Libertarian party.
She’s right up there with Ayn Rand as far as influential women in Libertarianism.
I never looked at it that way before, but it’s totally true. I know a girl from school who was obsessed...
“Most of the dreams we have are due to anxiety,” said Adele Nozedar, author...”
– dream analysis - chicagotribune.com
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iEmpire: Apple's Sordid Business Practices Are... →
youngmanhattanite:
It turns out the story is much worse. Researchers with the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) say that legions of vocational and university students, some as young as 16, are forced to take months’-long “internships” in Foxconn’s mainland China factories assembling Apple products. The details of the internship program paint a far more...
bohemian slapfight: So I just got kicked out. of... →
themattsmith:
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littleorphanammo:
And I haven’t written anything about it until now, because I thought I had some time, but I have ONE DAY. She wants me gone by tomorrow and I am BEGGING AND PLEADING anyone in the NYC area for somewhere to go.
Because I have no where to go. And I am fucking terrified and afraid. And I really need…
I wish I still lived there so I...
“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.”
– Bertolt Brecht
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Oh God
Watching Ann Curry interview the Kennedy mistress is SO totally painful.
Please yank her off the air. Please. Put her out of our misery.
"what do you mean you don't have jagermeister?...
scottfriday:
- things i may or may not have said to a bartender last night.
This may have to go on my favorite quotes thingie on fb.
“[L]ong before Barack Obama achieved any significance on the political scene, I...”
– Glenn Greenwald on the follow the leader mentality pervasive in American politics.
(via aheram)
I’d be interested in response to this Greenwald article from Ari Kohen or Squashed, if they see this and are so inclined.
(via jeffmiller)
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Watchchuckhistory:
theonion:
Meet The Man Inside The Nicolas Cage Costume
Star Fix has an exclusive interview with the man who has enchanted audiences for the last 30 years playing the delightfully wacky, oversized puppet of Nicolas Cage.
This is by far the best thing I have seen in a long, long, long time.
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youcancallmeluke replied to your photo: Field trip
About what, exactly, is he swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help him…deflated cuttlefish on a plate?
He likes to pose. But he was telling the field trip lady that he’s ready to put the seeds on the lard he coated the pine cone with so the forest land creatures can have a delicious snack.
“And yet for all the oddities of their personal lives, there is the side of the...”
– Nazi Family Values | Hoover Institution
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“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can...”
– Frederico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding. (via helveticafutura)
message from mommie dearest
R U an atheist? Or are you just stirring up trouble? When I read this I could hear your Father’s ashes churning.
The fantastic part is I have no idea what she’s talking about, other than a snarky comment I made on a post on a friend’s wall. Which means she’s stalking my comments. Which means….eww.
Bon Iver Bashing Day: Crushing Edition
J: She sounds like the kind of girl who would give you shit over mispronouncing Bon Iver.
M: Okay, that worked.
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Minced oath
A minced oath is an expression based on a profanity or a taboo term that has been altered to reduce the objectionable characteristics.
Many languages have such expressions. In the English language, nearly all profanities have minced variants.
Examples include darn or dang instead of damn; shoot or shucks instead of shit; heck instead of hell; flipping, freaking, fluffing, frigging, effing,...
Ha
Note the recipe for homemade play doh in the background. Supposed to have that done for preschool days ago. Totally messed that up today.
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annoyed
Thoroughly.
“Wha..what is a week end?”
– Lady Grantham (via youroldarchenemycatwoman)
BEST LINE EVER.
