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“I’d like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.
Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I’ve been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless,...
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'Bully': Behind Every Harassed Child? A Whole Lot... →
“Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as a social problem. “Just kids being kids” can no longer be an acceptable response to the kind of sustained physical and emotional abuse that damages the lives of young people whose only sin is...
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Issac Asimov (via askjerves)
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'Theft' Law in the 21st Century →
“THE Justice Department is building its case against Megaupload, the hugely popular file-sharing site that was indicted earlier this year on multiple counts of copyright infringement and related crimes. The company’s servers have been shut down, its assets seized and top employees arrested. And, as is usual in such cases, prosecutors and their allies in the music and movie industries have...
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WIGGLE YOUR TUMBLR NAME(S) AROUND. →
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UNWASHED NERD TARTLETS -or- DAUNTLESS, TENDER WRATH.
Rolls right off the tongue.
HMM! AT THE TITS
PICKLE POP ECSTATIC!
I just got my next song title. :)
Parked Zoo
HA! TRULY GEEK.
anagram name is HUH! UNFIT SCROTUMS
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“Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom...”
– Marcel Proust
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If you have burned a single calorie analyzing the...
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)
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Japan has shut down another nuclear power station,... →
Only one of the 54 nuclear reactors remains in operation, and it is due to be switched off in May.
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“I believe that the modern surface parking lot is ripe for transformation. Few of us spend much time thinking about parking beyond availability and convenience. But parking lots are, in fact, much more than spots to temporarily store cars: they are public spaces that have major impacts on the design of our cities and suburbs, on the natural environment and on the rhythms of daily life. We...
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Zakaria: America needs a 2-page tax code →
“America has what is arguably the world’s most complex tax code. The federal code plus IRS rulings is now 70,000 pages long. The code itself is 16,000 pages. The statist French, for example, have a tax code of only 1,909 pages - only 12% as long as ours. And then there are countries like Russia, the Czech Republic, Estonia that have innovated and moved to a flat tax, with considerable...
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One out of 10 Wall Street employees is a clinical... →
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FP: Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War →
Lesson #1: The United States lost.
Lesson #2: It’s not that hard to hijack the United States into a war.
Lesson #3: The United States gets in big trouble when the “marketplace of ideas” breaks down and when the public and our leadership do not have an open debate about what to do.
Lesson #4: The secularism and middle-class character of Iraqi society was overrated.
Lesson...
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