January 2009
100 posts
“People would say to me, ‘Bill, you vote for Clinton, he’s gonna raise your...”
– Bill Hicks, 1992
Damn, I wish he had been here for the W administration… that woulda been sumthin.
(via danielholter)
(via kateoplis)
Watchjaschu:
courtney:
Ant Superhighway: An ant colony pumped full of cement then excavated shows us the incredibly intricate and massive structure that lives below the surface of an ant mound.
Holy crap.
(via Barron)
Kind of makes “Empire of the Ants” look a lot less silly. Seriously, this is astonishing.
awesomest hammie birthday party
butterfreid:
http://adventuresofwildthings.blogspot.com/2008/12/calis-first-birthday.html
OMG, that is adorable. I dare you to deny it.
“Animal researchers believe that play serves as a kind of training for the...”
– Scientific American (via tomwillerer)
“BERNSTEIN:
Thatcher! That man was the biggest darn fool I ever met.
THOMPSON:...”
– Citizen Kane
What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses →
grutty:
Time for the outrage.
In the words of Louisa May Alcott: This is bullshit.
“I am so damn glad that you can never be my wife cause I surely wouldn’t...”
– Dick Armey to Salon’s Joan Walsh, on Hardball. Dick Armey, folks! Is it any wonder we love the guy?
“This whole messy ordeal has advanced my Botox start date by at least two years....”
– Dating A Banker Anonymous
BARF.
(via soupsoup)
This is a sadly not a joke.
(via freckledawesome)
The New York Times’ article on this group is one of the reasons I cancelled my Times subscription — the spate of “pity the rich” articles, which asked readers to sympathize...
Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not... →
Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week’s Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: “They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance.” Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give...
“The truth, of course, is that the country is hemorrhaging jobs and Americans are...”
– Bob Herbert
Perfection Wasted
And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market — the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears, their tears confused with their diamond earrings, ...
“They want to criticize as many provisions of the bill as possible, push for as...”
– Quoting Josh Marshall at TPM:
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (January 27, 2009) - The GOP’s Stimulus Stance
(via think4yourself)
(via apsies)
(via freckledawesome)
'Mall Cop' stays on top at box office →
You know, I get annoyed at those who make comments like, “People are stupid” or “People are idiots” and the like, because I generally don’t think people are stupid (I think many people lack critical thinking skills, but you just have to take a look at the world around you to realize that in general, people aren’t stupid).
But I have to say, stories like...
Jonathan Raban: How did Obama's inaugural speech... →
This veiled quality suffused the entire address, whose central motif was stated early on: “The time has come to put away childish things … to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history.” The distinct echo of Lincoln’s “the better angels of our nature” helped to soften the implication that the last eight years belong to our worse history, under a...
The awfulness of Billy Joel, explained. →
“There’s always the chance we’ll see another of those ‘career re-evaluation”’ essays that places like the New York Times Sunday ‘Arts & Leisure’ section are fond of running about the Barry Manilows of the world. The kind of piece in which we’d discover that Billy’s actually ‘gritty,’ ‘unfairly marginalized’ by...
"Drunken Negro Face" Cookies On Sale at Greenwich... →
At at a time when any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery popular with celebrities and shows like Sex and the City has outraged neighbors by selling a “Drunken Negro Face” cookie in, um, “honor” of President Obama. [Video below.] A shocked customer tells My Fox NY that Ted...
In honor of Motown Thursday, which I just invented...
“Corporate crime is often violent crime with very real victims. Mokhiber points...”
– -Gene Racz
The Real Criminals: Corporate CEOs
(via ariah) (via clothedinsky)
Obama just gave a shout out to atheists.
outtheother:
tumblelikeyougiveadamn:
That’s how I know things are different.
“Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives,...”
– Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren,...”
– Simone Weil
imsorrybrendan:
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour...
16 fun facts about me!
Because I’m usually half awake, I just noticed that the fabulous fuddmain tagged me. (I’m always embarrassed about doing these types of things, but, of course, I’ll go ahead and do it anyway.) So, because I know the world has been waiting with bated breath, here are 16 fun facts about me:
1. I trained to be an opera singer; I got into Boston University School of Music but...