February 2012
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My dad defends social security in a USA Today... →
I’m gonna take a minute to brag on my family here. My dad is a total badass, so I’m not surprised that USA Today contacted him to respond to an editorial they were publishing about how crappy social security is (way to look out for your readers, guys). Sure, their reaching out to him probably had more to do with his being president of the National Organization of Social Security...
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Girl Talk: My voice makes me sound like I’m an... →
phlash:
I can totally relate to this article. I once had a professor tell me, “Your voice doesn’t match your face,” the first time she heard me speak.
This is really good, and I feel like I should point out that the title does not mean it is a piece by the musician who goes by Girl Talk (which is what I thought at first).
January 2012
30 posts
“Enter you, the lucky guy who is thrilled at the prospect of a non-clingy...”
– 5 Feminist Demands She Wants You to Ignore | Fox News
Dude. Bro. Jeeeeze.
(via hijinksensued)
“‘No’ is just a ‘yes’ in disguise,” amirite?
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Reading this made me vomit in my mouth. People like this make me ashamed to be human
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Let the meat cake!
shitmystudentswrite:
Mary Antwinet is famous for saying “let the meat cake.” She was a leader of the French revelation. She was very popular and fashionable until she died from guilty.
Mary Antwinet
let the meat cake
DIED FROM GUILTY
“Our community, much like society-at-large, needs a paradigm shift as it relates...”
– Zerlina Maxwell, Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped, Ebony.com, 1/14/12
::wild applause::
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Vanity Fair: How to Sound Like You Know Something... →
vanityfair:
4. Become an instant expert of football’s regulations and arcana. Remember: if a guy touches the ball but doesn’t catch it, it means something either good or bad, depending; field goals have to be 15 or 20 or 25 yards back from the thing; that guy can’t do that; touching the head is illegal;…
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newspeedwayboogie:
epic and classic
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Jurors Can Say No - NYTimes.com →
IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I recommend that you vote “not guilty” — even if you think the defendant actually smoked pot, or sold it to another consenting adult. As a juror, you have this power under the Bill of Rights; if you exercise it, you become part of a proud tradition of American jurors who helped make our laws fairer.
The information I have just provided — about a...
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December 2011
39 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Neil Young (15)
Grateful Dead (14)
The House Of Love (13)
Kim Jung Mi (10)
The Congos (7)
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No Mayan ruins after all. →
blake500:
Bummer…
BOOOOOO
Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in... →
blake500:
This. Is. Too. Cool:
“Archaeological zone 9UN367 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (800 m) square and rises 700 feet (213 m) in elevation up a steep mountainside. Visible are at least 154 stone masonry walls for agricultural terraces, plus evidence of a sophisticated irrigation system and ruins of several other stone structures. Much...
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