December 2010
“You ever watch the show ‘Hairspray,’ where you have the lady and she...”
– Del. Mike Smiegiel (R) [via Bob B.]
Learn Italian With Fabio | Lesson 9
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“Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely...”
– Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist
Le Creuset Holiday Give-Away! | David Lebovitz →
NSFW: Hey, Assange’s Celeb Supporters, What Time’s... →
What sort of man reads Paco Camino?
He’s had a trying year. Deep in thought en route to his exclusive mountainside retreat in the Catskills, the Paco Camino Man speeds past snow-covered fields in his private rail car with his devoted woman. Sharing a bottle of rare vodka, he’s suffering from the devastating loss of his best friend’s life, and recently shaken to the core by the callous actions of a once noble...
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Talking Chalk and Talk Chalkers Glenn Beck Hijacks...
The ill-informed and dangerous charlatan Glenn Beck made me concerned enough to look into chalk talk. Before the millionaire fraud hijacked the former vaudeville trick and started using his chalkboard “skills” to foster corporate greed under the guise of patriotism (and convince many of his floundering middle-class audience to act against their own best interests) chalk talking was...
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Letter From Canada: Why Is America So Furious... →
“Whatever you think of WikiLeaks, they have not been charged with a crime, let...”
– Glenn Greenwald
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Sheena Iyengar's TED Talk: why she couldn't get...
In this highly informative TED video, Sheena Iyengar talks about how the way different cultures perceive choice can affect performances and relationships. The talk starts with a story about her trip to Kyoto: She wanted sugar with her green tea, but the waiter told her that you’re not supposed to have sugar with your green tea; when she insisted, she was told that they had no...
“I can use Visa and Mastercard to pay for porn and support anti-abortion...”
– Jeff Jarvis - Buzz Machine
The first moose ever murdered for political gain? →
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The Perfect Crime Scene | Neatorama
By John Farrier in Crime & Law, Society & Culture
Pictured above is a map of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Most of it is within the borders of Wyoming, but northern and western slivers lie within Montana and Idaho. University of Michigan law professor Brian C. Kalt has written a paper about why the piece within Idaho is the perfect place to commit a crime. Dan...
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From WikiChina | NY Times
by Thomas L. Friedman
While secrets from WikiLeaks were splashed all over the American newspapers, I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect the cable would read like this:
Washington Embassy, People’s Republic of China, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beijing, TOP SECRET/Subject:...
Language of nightmares: The alphabet according to...
Pittsburgh filmmaker Lenka Clayton’s ‘Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet’ strafes us with the ABCs of post-9/11 propagandistic buzzwords. Bush’s political oratory: a spewing of consonants and vowels with a machine gun staccato, a torrent of linguistic shrapnel. In recent weeks (since the publication of his memoirs), George W. has been waging a media campaign to...
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You Are No Longer Free To Move About the Country
by Radley Balko
[…] It’s not difficult to envision the day where anyone wishing to take mass transportation in this country will have to first submit to a government checkpoint, show ID, and answer questions about any excess cash, prescription medication, or any other items in his possession the government deems suspicious. If and when that happens, freedom of movement will...