January 2012
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December 2011
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Life is hard. Here is someone.: impt →
meaghano:
So I’m on this flight from NYC to Charlotte today, it’s super-delayed on the tarmac and I’m sitting next to two people about my age who did not know each other but talked so loud that I shared that ugh i know ARE THEY EVEN HUMAN? look about them with two separate people. I would give some…
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Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
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Really UPS?!?
Thanks for the 2-5 Window. I left work early to make sure I don’t miss packages and turns out you decide not to come.
I thought I’d be climbing an hour ago?
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Corporations ARE NOT People: Unanimous vote says... →
Thanks to ground work by the U.S. Green Party, the wave of Occupy Wall Street empowerment and Human Rights Alert, today, Los Angeles became the first major U.S. city to vote against corporate personhood and call for a Constitutional Amendment asserting corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not free speech. The vote was unanimous.
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November 2011
6 posts
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October 2011
14 posts
“The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.” - Tom Waits
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Romney’s rhetoric is more informed than Michele Bachmann’s, less nutty than Ron...
– The New Yorker’s David Remnick on Obama, the GOP and Qaddafi’s death (via gq)
Energie$ →
An economist’s ideal solution to all this might be to repeal the oil industry’s tax breaks, tax carbon to reflect its social costs, and let the market work its magic. But that seems to be, at least for now, a political impossibility. Putting money into alternative energy is as close as we can get to levelling the playing field. Solyndra was a big bet that happened to go bad. But we...
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since...
– Ernest Hemingway
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How to Speak Republican: A Dictionary →
kateoplis:
America (United States of): A country located in the N. Western Hemisphere that is #1.
Bible: A sacred text that provides incontestable answers when thumped.
Birth Certificate: An official birth record required of all US Presidents, regardless of race, since 2008.
Capitalism: A system of economic organization that has never been attempted.
Christmas: A holiday commemorating the...
PHANTOGRAM →
New phantogram…. i’m lovin it!
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Seattle, Washington: Seattle love →
mindmeldt:
Dark shining pavement, brick streets, a hot toddy and a moscow mule in a bathtub. Bummed a smoke from an Oregonian in a Seahawks jersey, shared said smoke with a homeless lady. Bought a burger and a 40 for a stranger. Drove up 99 and listened to Ratatat in duet with the fry cook…
September 2011
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