December 2010
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“We’re closed tonight. If you need comedy go to Times Square and watch 1,000...”
– @UCB Theatre NY on Twitter. (via popculturebrain)
Tragicomedy at best.
(via aatombomb)
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Re-blog if you actually read the text posts of the...
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Internet Hero Zach Anner a Finalist for His ‘OWN’... →
dailyrenegade:
Support Zach Anner!!! (If you don’t you’re a bad person.)
No obstacles? I’m ready!
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mom, this is how twitter works. →
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Baldwin suing Costner over BP ‘Trick’
Stephen Baldwin has sued Kevin Costner, claiming Costner and others tricked him into selling his shares in a company whose technology separates oil from water. Baldwin and a co-plaintiff claim that Costner and associates made a lucrative deal with BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, then bought out the plaintiffs’ shares while keeping...
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...and so went 2010: full of surprises, but not...
You can’t always get what you want.
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nprfreshair:
Black on White Affair :: ‘Auld Lang...
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“The internet is a remarkable gift, which has granted us one of the greatest...”
– Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations? | Media | AlterNet (via shorterexcerpts)
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Agent 3Z: New Year's Traditions from around the... →
lickystickypickyme:
I don’t know if people from the countries mentioned here can confirm these traditions. I know that around here we do put on yellow underwear on NYE and I know from my grandma that they do eat 12 grapes at 00:00 in Venezuela. Apparently a tradition inherited from Spain.
Spain: Stop whatever…
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Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of... →
nprfreshair:
We had to double check to make sure this wasn’t from the Onion. Awesome work, Wall Street Journal. Awesome work.
— braiker
Would have thought this was from Non Sequitur z R Us. Learn to tolerate boredom!
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A Little Fable
missingthejackandtheace:
“Alas,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.” “You...
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Lights, please. [a spotlight shines on Linus]
Linus Van Pelt: “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings...
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HAMLET, Act 1, Scene 1
It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior’s birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
— William Shakespeare
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WatchRudolph vs. Sarah Palin
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“This is the banks’ excuse:
A clause in most mortgages allows banks that...”
– Yves Smith in Bank Break Ins Leading to Litigation « naked capitalism (via quotingthecrisis)
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“During these past weeks, rather than a nerd takeover, I saw the crumbling of the...”
– Zeynep Tufekci (via azspot)
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“Planned Parenthood’s fumbling fund raising efforts reveal a fundamental...”
– FoxNews.com - How Does a Planned Parenthood Gift Card Say Merry Christmas?
GOL! (Gagging out loud.)
“Today, America’s best and brightest are graduating from college full of...”
– It’s A Great Time To Be A New College Graduate: High Unemployment, Crappy Service Jobs And Crippling Student Loan Debt
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Student loans leave crushing debt burden →
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Like the majority of American families, the Kuipers will borrow money to pay for college. A lot of money. They figure the total — for each child — will come to about $80,000. But for Shelby, who’s been applying for college, that $80,000 figure never came up.
Two-thirds of American college students will graduate with a sizeable debt; for the class of 2009, the average debt...
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Watchinterweber:
The Best Viral Videos Of 2010: A Retrospective | Videogum
This is impressive. It’s also the only type of retrospective that can make me really reminisce on the year. That’s just the way things are. Face it, Lindsey.
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Video: The Twelve Days of WikiLeaks →
utnereader:
Warm up with a little bit of yule-tide WikiCheer, brought to you by Mother Jones (and Utne Reader) illustrator Zina Saunders. Click this link for a rendition of “12 Days of Christmas,” devoted to government transparency and Iranian ninjas.
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long...”
– Carl Sagan (via shorterexcerpts)
“History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.”
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