February 2012
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January 2012
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September 2011
1 post
4 tags
“Let’s talk about socialism. I think it’s very important to bring back the idea...”
– Howard Zinn (via cultureofresistance)
July 2011
1 post
“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It’s almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
-Dave Eggers
June 2011
1 post
Alex Leo: Ron Swanson + Meat = Awesome →
alexleo:
Next to Jack Donaghy and Lucille Bluth, Ron Swanson is my favorite television character of all time. There is much to admire about Ron: his intense libertarianism, his willingness to try cornrows, his support of Leslie, that time he gave a small child a landmine, and, of course, his secret life…
April 2011
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March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
“It’s just allowing for the love to flow so that poor people have the same...”
– CORNEL WEST, defining social justice, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
December 2010
3 posts
talking-bird:
wheresmymacandcheese:
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November 2010
1 post
Watchthedailywhat:
Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear Closing Statement of the Day: Jon Stewart takes aim at “the country’s 24-hour-politico-pundit-perpetual-panic-conflictinator” (AKA the press) during the only serious/sincere — and only worthwhile, IMO — portion of today’s Rally to Restore Sanity.
Money: “We live now in hard times, not end times.”
[mediaite.]
October 2010
6 posts
doggoneluvable:
“Texas Rangers coming up in a few days. What are you gonna do tonight and when do you start thinking about them?”
“Gosh I don’t know… Probably rage for one. Get minimal sleep and then do it again”
- Brian Wilson
DELICIOUS DELICIOUS DELICIOUS. EVERYTHING IS...
battingcleanup:
But specifically, Brian Wilson is DELICIOUS.
September 2010
3 posts
Watchthedailywhat:
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Footage of Stephen Colbert’s in-character testimony before the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee (previously) on the subject of the United Farm Workers’ “Take Our Jobs” initiative, which almost didn’t happen.
[mediaite.]
August 2010
5 posts
July 2010
1 post
dontquityourgayjob:
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June 2010
3 posts
32 Nations and 32 Epic Works of Art
worldcupreport:
Posted By Eric Beard
ESPN has been setting the bar for football coverage worldwide, not only due to the fact that it has signed up John Motson and Andy Gray to commentate, but also because it has really taken to the culture surrounding the game. It’s a little too much for one post, but I’ll do it anyway. Here are 32 amazing drawings of the 32 nations taking part in the World...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
8 posts
Always Go to the Funeral
apsies:
lizlemon:
katie-mac:
Always Go to the Funeral by Deirdre Sullivan (NPR: “This I believe” series)
I believe in always going to the funeral. My father taught me that.
The first time he said it directly to me, I was 16 and trying to get out of going to calling hours for Miss Emerson, my old fifth grade math teacher. I did not want to go. My father was unequivocal. “Dee,” he said,...
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Preface to Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (1855)
Walt Whitman’s alternative to Hitchens’ New Commandments.
(via kateoplis)
(via theoriginaljoefisher)
“Sarah Palin is going to have a show on the discovery channel…Can I get a moment...”
– Texts From Last Night (via theoriginaljoefisher)
“On the driveway right outside the White House briefing room, a place where...”
– Obamas share private moment in public eye - CNN.com (via apsies)