January 2012
89 posts
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Reblog With Your Most Hated Cliché Phrases So That...
hiredgoons:
6h057:
From a little known town called New York City
“…like the one on TV.”
That which does not kill me …
Biblical cats
shitmystudentswrite:
In Egypt, cats used to be seen as the symbolic and sacred animal. However scholars who have read and analyse the Bible claim there is never a mention of cats throughout.
Reason I’m not Christian #41358: No mention of cats in the Bible.
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in... →
dyfl:
I’m really, really glad that the Times is writing this series about manufacturing conditions in China; it’s one of the most significant human-rights stories in the world, and it’s one of those things Americans truly do not like thinking about. I know I generally don’t, but a part of me is glad to have it rubbed in my face.
I sort of worry that the focus on Apple is counter-productive —...
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karenwilson replied to your post: god why can’t Downton just be on now! Is your Tumblr becoming a Downton Abbey/Bates tribute blog?
Maybe!
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The Unlikely Cult of Mr.Bates →
bbook:
chiaraatik:
-London Evening Standard
(“Misteh Behhhhts”)
I mean, obviously the number one choice is Matthew Crawley in his dress reds but Misteh Behhhhts is still my favorite Beatrix Potter character.
Unlikely? UNLIKELY?!?!?!
god why can’t Downton just be on now!
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Sure, Mitch.
Obama’s the divisive one.
I can’t stop watching PBS now!
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David Brooks
wants to be a Dem so hard!
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and ...
pan ouuuuuuuuuuut.
I admit I'm only half-paying attention,
but it sounds like Mitch Daniels is re-advocating everything Obama said on behalf of all Republicans.
It's not even that I hate David Brooks.
I find him perfectly amiable. I just wish he would shut up.
"I would just like to reemphasize
that bin Laden got kilt and I am why.”
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ERIC HOLDER!
But I hardly know her!
CLAP FOR PEACE YOU SLAGS!!!!!!
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"I can't even really talk about it with y'all,
but the shit our drones are doing is UNREAL.”
KAGAAAAAAAAAN!
Just sayin.
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wait, hold up
I think he’s going to address the “Antichrist” issue.
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Man, I suck at liveblogging. I’ll stop.
SPILLED MILK JOKE
WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Geithner
looks worried?
OUR ENVIRONMENT!
[crickets]
ENERGY!
WOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Government out of Education!!!!
Just give the states money, no strings attached. Seriously.
EDIT: Obvs I meant FEDERAL government. I mean, you saw what those clowns are trying do with the internet. That’s what they’ve been doing with education, successfully, for years.
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drinking Scotch and watching SOTU
Jeez, am I actually getting excited about this election year?
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not...”
– Anne Bradstreet
I’m trying to remember this right now.
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Yep.
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Fun fact: I am a direct descendant of Anne Bradstreet.
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I am a direct descendant of Rose and Bernie Lozensky! (via growltiger)
Oh, we’re playing this game now?...
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subsequently ...
I’ve always found it impossible to spell “genealogy” correctly on the first try.
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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not...”
– Anne Bradstreet
I’m trying to remember this right now.
(via rosieloveswords)
Yep. (via apoplecticskeptic)
Fun fact: I am a direct descendant of Anne Bradstreet.
How's Your Face?: Aren’t Oscarbatory films like... →
howsyrface:
Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high brow equivalent of the Transformers, easing the viewer into the same warm nostalgia bath, just with the particulars adjusted to reflect a different audience’s adolescent fixations? Might they even be even more…
Todd is right about everything. I saw one of the three, Midnight in Paris, and while I...
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“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
Kel decided she wants this over the door when we buy our farmhouse.
I’m all for it. (via themattsmith)
In all respect, you have read all the way to the end of that book, right? (Spoiler: Not a happy ending!)
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STFU, Conservatives: From anon:“I’m sorry for... →
stfuconservatives:
From anon:
“I’m sorry for submitting this in the submit button, but I wish to remain anonymous. The woman I am talking about has had to deal with enough crap dealing with this.
Before my mother had had me, she had been pregnant before. The pregnancy was a miscarriage that had not completed. By…
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Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publisher... →
The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran.
Can you imagine if he was Muslim? The fact that Adler wasn’t sent to Guantanamo or straight-up killed by the CIA over this...
“Consider the intelligence of the average American. Then consider the fact
that...”
– Mark Twain (via azspot)
"Geek Culture is 'obnoxious' to you because... →
maura:
Really impressed by how few reblogs it took for the argument put forth in the post that started this whole discussion to prove itself in practice.
(There’s more in between those ellipses. You may not be surprised to find out that it accuses people of being “butt hurt” while also claiming that geek culture see no color (or gender, etc., etc.)
Also, people scratching their head at the...