February 2011
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“If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say,...”
– Sarah Palin, voicing her support for oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, most of which is currently off-limits to oil and gas development. (via officialssay)
I’m sorry, has someone elected you God as well as President? Silly me, I must have been facing the other way.
(via hanabi)
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January 2011
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When I'm mid sentence and I hear a song by the...
hanabi:
estherthanthou:
menkenmoffatmccartney:
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True things: at the store, we’re asked to sign people up for our mailing list when we ring them out so they can get coupons & promotions from us pretty much every day—which many people are already getting, if they’re shopping there, or unsurprisingly, do not want. So when people tell me they’re already getting...
Every Day, I Am Thankful
tomyhusband:
That you’re not one of those people who says “for all intensive purposes” or misuses the word “literally” like it’s a catch-all intensifier.
nb: this is, for all intents and purposes, literally a deal-breaker.
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UPDATE: we play this too! →
I think we must have multiple songs by the same artists. Which is okay because probably I want this album (THIS IS SUCH GOOD DISHWASHING AND POSSIBLY RUNNING MUSIC?).
Anyway I’m sorry I first found you at my retail employment and assumed you were as bad as this song, which HANAKO NEEDS TO LISTEN TO ONE TIME because I hear it every day, and have we talked about how annoying Orientalism is...
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“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore I. Rubin (via contrive)
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(we’ll see how this one does, so far it is whimsical and charming, just like me, am I right am I right)
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qed:
Just remembered that our school has a study abroad program in Cairo going on this quarter.
I wonder how that’s been?
ETA: Apparently the school shipped them off to a hotel in a wealthy southern suburb early last week and everyone’s safe and snorkeling etc. The school will not be letting them return to Cairo and will instead be sending them either to Paris or back to Chicago.
And there’s...
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guys I have so many more articles open in tabs but...
incidentally I apologize that my tags for monsanto and agribusiness involve profanity but I actually can’t think of anything more accurate, so.
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“‘We want to expand and preserve choice for farmers,’ he told...”
– U.S. Approves Planting of Genetically Modified Alfalfa - NYTimes.com
no no you don’t you know fully well that it is a capitulation to a system with millions of dollars to use to buy Congress and crush competition which is apparently succeeding, I am looking at you, Frank D. Lukas (R-OK), new...
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Congressman Issa Wants to Track FOIA Requests -... →
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Representative Darrell Issa calls it a way to promote transparency: a request for the names of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, business executives, journalists and others who have requested copies of federal government documents in recent years.
Mr. Issa, a California Republican and the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says he wants...
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“It’s a good story: Europeans dithered on deficits, and that led to crisis....”
– Their Own Private Europe - NYTimes.com
Hear that, Paul Ryan? Boom, roasted.
guys you should hear my capslock when they start talking about how we have the “best healthcare in the world.”
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I made my family laugh for half an hour with...
Maybe it’s time to begin a regular series. I wonder if I am identifiable through this blog.
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squashed:
If Egypt’s government falls, Saudi Arabia’s government is in serious trouble. If Saudi Arabia’s government is in trouble, we’ll have a serious oil crisis. My guess? Gas breaks $5.00 a gallon. Easily.
I’m still for it. Bad for us. Good for the world.
I’m down.
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haygirlhay:
In a stunning reversal, USDA chief Vilsack greenlights Monsanto’s alfalfa
themattsmith:
This is a big fucking deal.
Monsanto’s GMO seeds spread to neighboring farms, crossbreed with organic seeds, Monsanto sues over intellectual property violations, wins, and shuts the organic farm down.
And now it’s done under the umbrella of the USDA’s tacit fucking approval.
Fuck Monsanto,...
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Thank you, Secretary Clinton, for GETTING ON THAT.
turn on the internet
retrain the military
protesters, you don’t be violent either pls
urges to democracy must be heard
reforms are totally necessary, WE TOLD YOU ALREADY
everybody keep calm
no mention of direct support of Hosni Mubarak?
I’ll take it.
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Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now - Al... →
no, but, the National Democratic Party’s headquarters is on fire.
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Police: Florida boy drops loaded handgun inside... →
sloanfinley:
baileyeverywhere:
That is my elementary school. They have changed the mascot.
The police chief is my little sister’s high school best friend’s father.
The superintendent of schools is fairly useless, actually.
things were much safer when we were the somber manatees.
RIGHT. Did we lose the orthodontist’s support, or what?
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Police: Florida boy drops loaded handgun inside... →
That is my elementary school. They have changed the mascot.
The police chief is my little sister’s high school best friend’s father.
The superintendent of schools is fairly useless, actually.
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F.D.A and Dairy Industry Spar Over Testing of Milk... →
READ THIS. READ CAREFULLY. GET ANGRY. THEN READ THIS. THEN GET ANGRIER AT WHAT YOU’RE NOT BEING TOLD.
do you see how close together the cows are? that is where they always live, forever, every day.
do you see how when the FDA said “we need to test this,” the dairy industry said NO, and the FDA said well, okay?
do you see how “many worry” that the antibiotics given...
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Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Economy |... →
So, this is happening. Surprise!
Actually surprising in this article: the man who said suck it and moved to Taiwan. GUYS, MOVED TO TAIWAN. Young Japanese people never move away, they barely even study abroad. Also, the fact that none of the quotes sound too translated. Did the NYTimes get a new translator? This is phenomenal.
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ほら、高校の時には知り合いだったからと言ってフォローバックしなきゃいけないわけじゃないからね
あなた、なにも悪くないけど何も私は特に見たいものを投稿しないから別にフォローする必要はないでしょう？
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Now that Egypt's internet is "off" American youth...
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nwbtcw:
because they find it unfathomable that someone could do such a thing. It’s the same kind of thinking that led /b/ users to start Anonymous over the technology quackery of the Church of Scientology. “How dare you offend my class values of free access to high speed wifi, tumblr and pirated music? I’m going to tweet about this on my blackberry and maybe reblog some viral...
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“but always up the mountainside you’re clambering:
groping blindly, hungry...”
– Joanna Newsom, “Only Skin”
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl « Thought... →
damn it to hell, tumblr, I give, I will post the link, now will you please get out of my deep secret terrors
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
You can’t cancel a crush.
Do they expire?
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Dear Jeff Buckley: I get very sad when I think...
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ashiato:
I’ve been dating the idea of Japan for a long time. There are so many traditional arts that appeal to me. I love the language. I love the food, or at least the food that hasn’t been “westernized” (fried and stuffed with cheese or slathered in mayo). But now that I’m here and able to pursue something more than a long-distance relationship with this country, I’ve come to realize one more...
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neveralovelysoreal:
Regina Spektor- Hallelujah
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“Now I only see my dreams in everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on...”
– guess what played at work and so is stuck in my head. Again.
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9:15? Time to get ready for bed.
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NYT: Grading the Education President →
hanabi:
While I am trolling the NYT website at work, here is a link for Etsuko.
Hanako knows who I am.
In other news, this plan of President Obama’s, I am not sure she is so good; in still other news, where you live means everything about how you do in school and it’s not fair, a lot of kids a just average and that’s fine, because average should mean you grow up to be a...
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via steve-kim)
oh my God. oh my God Carl Jung get away from my head.
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