August 2011
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
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“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy...”
– Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876)
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“Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He’d say, “I’m goin’ upstairs...”
– George Carlin, Carlin on Campus (via somebodysaiditbetter)
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“It’s a great country, but it’s a strange culture. This has got to be the only...”
– George Carlin, What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (via somebodysaiditbetter)
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“Children are not our future and I can prove it with my usual flawless logic....”
– George Carlin, It’s Bad for Ya (via somebodysaiditbetter)
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“Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature”...”
– Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. (via ratsandcandy666)
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“I don’t have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds. And it makes...”
– George Carlin, You Are All Diseased (via somebodysaiditbetter)
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“What a curse it must be being a bisexual. Can you imagine wanting to fuck...”
– George Carlin, Playing With Your Head (via somebodysaiditbetter)
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fortuneandglory:
Jonathan: You must be Lakshmi Bargava.
Lakshmi: I am very impressed by your pronunciation.
Jonathan: Thank you. I listen to a lot of NPR.
-Bored to Death, Episode 2x5: “Forty-Two Down!”
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Mom Uses Abortion to Hide Rape of Mentally... →
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beccafrench:
My heart breaks for this little girl and her child.
Abortion in cases of rape and incest are highly disputed. The book Victims and Victors is an incredible resource concerning this heartbreaking topic and I would highly recommend it (it’s out of print but you can find it used on Amazon). This story exemplifies a major point in Victims and Victors, that...
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fortuneandglory:
“Back Down South” by Kings of...
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10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs →
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Q&A: Gadhafi's options, future scenarios and more →
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“[The old man] just sat. And I knew from a very young age that he was a ghost,...”
– Ryan Gosling on his childhood (via fortuneandglory)
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Novelist Sapphire: 'very real' racism in the arts →
“I remember when Push came out, there was shock when people saw me – they’d say: ‘You’re not 16, you’re not obese. We thought this was your life story.’
It was as though they thought this was some illiterate teenager’s life story and I had spoken it into a tape recorder, and some white editor had written it. …
It’s as if black artists are...
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20 Celebrities With Stunning Home Libraries →
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fortuneandglory:
“Cry Little Sister” by Gerard...
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GOP: No tax hikes - except for the poor →
How does the Republican Party continue to win elections? The Associated Press is reporting that GOP legislators are opposing the extension of a payroll tax cut that will expire on Jan. 1. The clear, unavoidable message: Americans workers should pay more taxes, while the rich should pay less.
That’s not a joke, and it’s not an Onion headline. The very same Republicans who have fought...
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Lunch Lessons: Back to School 2011 →
A typical school lunch often consists of any combination of pizza, hamburgers, nachos, french fries, tater tots, all slathered in ketchup and ranch dressing, all served with a side of sugary flavored milk. There is no doubt in my mind that these mediocre school lunches are contributing to the obesity crisis - and that if we do not take action NOW to make school lunches healthy, we will all pay...
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What's Inside a Slim Jim? →
Beef It’s real meat, all right. But it ain’t Kobe. The US Department of Agriculture categorizes beef into eight grades of quality. The bottom three—utility, cutter, and canner—are typically used in processed foods and come from older steers with partially ossified vertebrae, tougher tissue, and generally less reason to live. ConAgra wasn’t exactly forthcoming on what’s...
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'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' by T Bone Burnett →
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Top ten myths about the Libya war →
Myth #1. Gadhafi was a progressive in his domestic policies.
Myth #2. Gadhafi was a progressive in his foreign policy.
Myth #3. It was only natural that Gadhafi sent his military against the protesters and revolutionaries; any country would have done the same.
Myth #4. There was a long stalemate in the fighting between the revolutionaries and the Gadhafi military.
Myth #5. The Libyan...
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“THERE’S a near-total disconnect between our real, large, urgent problems and the...”
– Jesse Kornbluth (via azspot)
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fortuneandglory:
All this talk about Gaddafi in the news - that’s the guy from The Soporanos, right?
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The History of Lager Beer →
Since roughly 6000 B.C., people have been brewing and drinking beer, which may be the oldest alcoholic beverage on the planet. Until 500 years ago, the popular libation could only ferment in warm environments, where Saccharomyces cerevisiae—the yeast used to make ale, bread and wine—likes to grow. In the 15th century, however, Bavarian brewers started producing a new, less cloudy type of beer...
