April 2011
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I love Gail Collins →
President Obama has released the long-form version of his birth certificate in an attempt to quell the unflaggable “birther” movement and get the news media to notice when he names a new secretary of defense.
Donald Trump immediately took credit. “Today I am very proud of myself,” he said. This is in contrast to normal days, when Trump is continually walking around in an existential funk,...
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via dereknicoletto)
The editor of one of my book projects wrote this to me once in response to my queries and edits to a book manuscript he was developing the content for.
This is really a gunshot wound to the face for somebody whose job it is to ensure consistency and...
If support for gay marriage were to continue... →
Past trends, of course, are no guarantee of future ones, and it’s always possible that the momentum toward increasing support for gay marriage could flatten out or even reverse itself.
But this does put Republicans in a tricky position. Their traditional position on gay marriage is becoming less popular. But to the extent they disengage from the issue, they may lose even more ground. One way to...
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WatchThe House of Ortiz and the House of Leonitus doing battle at our private ball.
Thus is our Friday night.
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Something I thought should exist.
Sorry, Scott. I wasn’t able to easily find a clip of Juno exhaling smoke through her neck.
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Day 11 since my last cigarette
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I don't know what's worse...
Getting triple railroaded on my commute home from work or getting triple fisted by men with gigantism of the hands.
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I would pretty much inhale anything right now.
Maybe i’ll find a Sharpie and huff it.
Remember This Guy? →
Yeah. He just followed me and another guy into the bathroom, walked up to the only available urinal of the three (between other dude and I), said “Jackpot,” stood there for maybe 4 seconds, and walked out.
onebadapple:
Listening to Bruce’s audio post while watching this GIF just made my morning.
Cheers.
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Today, in things that come as no surprise. →
The GOP’s grand plan to rescue the US economy: Cut programs to the oldest and neediest, and drastically cut taxes for corporations and the wealthiest.
The ambitious plan, drafted principally by Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Budget Committee, proposes not only to limit federal spending and reconfigure major federal health programs, but also to rewrite...
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My motivation/energy/productivity has reached its...
So, in usual fashion, I’m looking up things to read on Wikipedia. Two recent faves:
List of non-fictional bears
Winnipeg the Bear
There’s something very sad about both of these articles.
I also realized last night that my empathy for animals is unreasonably greater than my empathy for humans. This became apparent when I felt uncomfortable playing with Leo with a fabric duck that he...
