January 2012
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just started reading Miles Klee's Ivyland: SO...
December 2011
29 posts
to do
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/09/stefan-bucher-344-questions/
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got a $50 certificate for eBay from work
spent $400
sigh.
neat list
Steve Jobs 20 Life Lessons (as compiled by a mashable writer after reading Jobs’ biography)
http://mashable.com/2011/12/18/steve-jobs-20-life-lessons/
Next up, Rick Santorum: all you need to know
“In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.”
— Rick Santorum
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Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely...
– Christopher Hitchens (via kateoplis)
Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole...
– Jim Wallis (via azspot)
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you know, there are so many more things to attack...
lay off the infidelities—it makes us look petty and desperate. The guy is a lying failed career politico turned lobbyist who loves big government.
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(stupid) phrase of the day
sophisticated pampering
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I am not going to light my hair on fire. I am not going to sign those silly...
– Jon Huntsman (via theatlantic)
love the title: "How the GOP Became America’s...
via azspot
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As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to...
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now that the Christmas season is upon us
I seem to want to eat chocolate all the time. Christmas == chocolate in 2011.
“I just want to choclate all the time
choclate all the time
choclate all the time”
sung to the tune of Eddy Murphy’s Number 1 Hit Single
add to goodreads:
http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2011/recommended-books/
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shit, man, I LOVE COMMUNITY!
That episode was so GOOD. the anime — was that a Tarantino nod? ooooo I don’t care. I love it all.
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homeland security helped with the occupy...
excerpt from an edifying article:
“…The mainstream media was declaring continually “OWS has no message”. Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online “What is it you want?” answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.
The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was...