living in a shotgun shack
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Tax and bomb conservatives vs tax and spend liberals.
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“Worse than wicked, the IRS’s behaviour was stupid; faced by angry citizens with a Don’t Tread On Me loathing of taxes, the agency sent taxmen to tread on them.” —The Economist
(Just thought it was clever)
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this here is some spectacular lawyerese:
“It is a mistake to draw any negative inference or conclusion about a case or a particular defendant based on isolated taped conversations taken out of context.”
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“It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity.” — A.O. Scott, NYT -
“The idea that everyone can have everything may be logically preposterous, but it is ideologically essential to the imagination of a country that seems to be living simultaneously in the Great Depression and the Gilded Age.”
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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” -
“Lost at Lake” | 2012 | oil on found landscape | 40“ x 28” | One of the original pieces from Disaster Series, currently on show at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
via The Great Discontent article about Oliver Jeffers via Pikeys via Tumblr Radar.
I like this Oliver Jeffers
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“Don’t be ridiculous, Eddie, we’re going this way.”
my neighbor to her dog
so cute
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delightfully baffling
phrase of the day
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“Scandal Machine”
The Republicans are looking for the Whitewater of the Obama administration — a manufactured scandal they can all rally around. They think they have found it with Benghazi. lame. How ‘bout you work together and fix shit?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/opinion/the-republicans-scandal-machine.html?hp&_r=0
