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“For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as...”
– Mallory Ortberg, laying waste to fools on GAWKER, today, regarding CNN’s offensively lovey-dovey coverage of the two high school football stars who were convicted on Sunday of sexually assaulting a blacked-out drunk 16 year old girl from a neighboring town at a party, and then sharing pictures of...
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Watchvalerie2776:
Short Song For Justin Bieber and His Paparazzi
Oh John Darnielle.
“I don’t know how that’s relevant to this, but I thought I’d bring it up.”
– Senator Marco Rubio during the nearly 13-hour filibuster, after quoting a line that was cut from The Godfather.
In discussing the U.S.’ drone policy, Rubio quoted The Godfather three times, as well as Wiz Khalifa and “that modern-day poet by the name of Jay-Z.” (via officialssay)
Marco Rubio is...
“Hoover is the inventor of the modern American national security state. Every...”
– Timothy Weiner, the author of Enemies: A History of the FBI, tells Terry Gross about J. Edgar Hoover’s legacy (via nprfreshair)
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Dregs One: A response to Vice Magazine, San... →
dregsone:
A friend of mine sent me this article last night and it pissed me off. This morning I decided to write an open response:
Social work in the Tenderloin will kill something inside of you
There is no denying that the Tenderloin is a rough neighborhood. The poverty, drug peddling,…
This is important
February 2013
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All my photos are licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike. A newspaper with a circulation of around 500,000 in the Netherlands used a photo of mine without permission, here. I thought I’d send them a standard cease-and-desist, but since it’s international, I’m sort of realizing I don’t want to deal with it.
I will say this, however: the...
So, I reblogged something earlier about DKNY... →
They’ve since apologized and donated $25,000 to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Good for them.
Maxistentialism: We Saw Your Boobs →
mostfamousman:
But the in-depth thing I want to talk about is the “reaction shots” to the song, pre-taped by game actresses who were playing along. The substance of these reaction shots highlights just what’s so awful about McFarlane singing this song: mortification from most of the…
Playing with GarageBand on iPhone today. Excuse me...
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“I think that when you are in a high profile business, I remember when I was a...”
– Brooke Shields talking about Taylor and relationships on the view. (via thisfightisworthwhile)
I love TSwift’s music, and I am indifferent about her relationships. As it should be. This is probably why.
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“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast...”
– The Winter of the Air (via princeton-calling)
Life for the last year or so
The Profound Programmer: leonsbuddydave: Eclipse... →
leonsbuddydave:
Eclipse 4.3 Changelog:
- Added the word “Eclipse” to the spellcheck dictionary
- Corrected an instance in which Eclipse would fail to crash for no reason
- Increased the saturation of the application icon
- Printed out all the menu trees, cut them into strips, tossed…
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454 W 23rd St New York, NY 10011—2157: Well right,... →
lazenby:
Well right, naturally you should hate spirituality. That word almost always refers to someone using the spiritual as spackle to fill a defect in him or herself. A beached fiftysomething with a face like a worn coin, suddenly terrified of death and enrolled in a community college goddess course….
