October 2011
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Flowcharts Can Lie →
Or: Why “How Many Steps Does It Take To Link Cuba to Kevin Bacon?”
“I am probably a little biased against reality TV, partly because there’s this...”
– President Obama, explaining to Jay Leno why he doesn’t watch “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” (via officialssay)
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.”
– - C.S. Lewis
It confuses me when I see posts from young progressives about refusing to vote in 2012. Less than a year ago almost 80% of young people didn’t vote in the midterm elections. This is what happened. And this. And this. And this. Just look at what we have to show for that strategy.
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“Stupid people are ruining America”
– Herman Cain, without a hint of irony. (via firthofforth)
“I’m really not worried about the president’s birth certificate. It’s fun to poke...”
– Texas Gov. Rick Perry, telling CNBC why he thought President Obama’s birth certificate was “a good issue to keep alive” even though he wasn’t worried about the president being born elsewhere. (via officialssay)
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“All the reasons I love Meghan McCain. So sue me, the girl writes well and we...”
– Whoever smelt it, dealt it. [The Daily Beast] (via vanityfair)
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“I don’t care about that.”
– Texas Gov. Rick Perry, on income inequality. But maybe you knew that already. (via motherjones)
“The Congressional Research Service found that 200,000 millionaires — almost...”
– NY Times, We Thought They Wanted to Be Like Buffett (via underpaidgenius)
: Ron Paul: Against A Woman's Right to Choose →
rabbleprochoice:
miss-luna:
As an OB/GYN who delivered over 4,000 babies, Ron Paul knows firsthand how precious, fragile, and in need of protection life is.
Dr. Paul’s experience in science and medicine only reinforced his belief that life begins at conception, and he believes it…
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“Once you sit down in the middle of a major boulevard, police are obligated to...”
– Colorado Pols, on Occupy Denver
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“The devil is in the details.”
– Michele Bachmann, commenting on Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan turned upside down. Be worried when Bachmann’s saying that about you.
On news orgs running that photo of Gadhaffi shot... →
shortformblog:
wardrox:
How far removed from the real world do you have to be to think publishing, with no warning, a graphic image of a dead or dieing dying person covered in blood is fine? Newsweek’s Tumblr even calls the posting of the grotesque image “a necessity in an age of media-driven rumors”. [more]
A few things: Newsweek and The Atlantic are fighting two different schools of...
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“A letter from Goldman Sachs:
Dear Investor:
Up until now, Goldman Sachs has...”
– The Borowitz Report
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This counts as politics, right?? →
surisburnbook:
Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, is taking a stand for ladies everywhere. See, current law states that male heirs take precedence in the royal line of succession, even if they have older, more competent sisters. Cameron is hoping to modernize the monarchy by making the throne go to the…
“[Occupy Wall Street] will have no realistic proposal to reduce the debt or...”
– David Brooks, The Milquetoast Radicals, NYTimes
Meaning, if you eat the rich, you’ll just be hungry again in 20 minutes
(via 6h057)
The rich are Chinese food? (via firthofforth)
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“Yes, but then I’ll go to hell! Which is a bad thing.”
– Mark Shullman (via slcteacherisms)
From someone in the class where it was said: “There was no exclamation point. That man does not speak with enough emotion in his life to merit an exclamation point. And Schulman has one L. Don’t type that! There’s no C! Exclamation point!”
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Flying while Muslim →
*sigh*
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“‘I’m increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall...”
– Eric Cantor, who didn’t seem to mind the Tea Party mobs
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Not quite Going Nuclear... →
For anyone who forgot to pay attention in 9th grade civics… Here’s the recap of what happened.
RIP: The Wild Man from Birmingham →
As with the day Michael Jackson died, Steve Jobs wasn’t the only one a few days ago.
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The People Who Deserve their Peace Prizes (I'm... →
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When Fasting isn't Holy →
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“Some snakes can climb trees - and those are the scary ones. Then they drop on...”
– Susan Kart (via slcteacherisms)
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What is New Media?
Two sentences or fewer. Go.
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“People felt betrayed! I mean, someone actually said to me that I had betrayed...”
– Sean Akerman, on students getting bumped after being put on teachers’ preferred lists during interviews. (via slcteacherisms)
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“Sarah Palin Says She Will Not Seek the Presidency
Sarah Palin told a radio talk show host on Wednesday that she would not seek the presidency in 2012, but said that she would still be involved in trying to oust President Obama from the White House.
“Not being a candidate, you are unshackled and able to be even more active,” she said on the Mark Levin show. “I look forward to using all...
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Colorado Friends.. →
If you didn’t vote in the Midterm, please remember that in some counties you will have to REQUEST your ballot for this election so that you can vote. Stay on top of it.
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“October 1, 2011 - TAMPA, FL - The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just...”
– #OccupyWallStreet - ‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’ | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com | (via progressivefriends)
I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.
(via itstimefortruth)
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"[Chunks of ice] one and a half times the size of... →
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pantslessprogressive:
“Uncritically endorsing the administration’s authority to kill Awlaki on the basis that he was likely guilty, or an obviously terrible human being, is short-sighted. Because what we’re talking about here is not whether Awlaki in particular deserved to die. What we’re talking about is trusting the president with the authority to decide, with the minor bureaucratic burden of...
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