June 2012
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This election is going to suuuuck. It’s a good thing I get two weeks off,...
– John Stewart, fresh off his most recent vacation
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Re: Mayor Bloomberg's proposal on banning the sale...
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nudawn:
You guys I stopped drinking soda like 6 months ago. Its NOT THE FUCKING POINT. The fucking point is we all are adults and shouldn’t have to live in a fucking fascist fucking nanny state.
Lol no. The point is results. Human beings are weak, impressionable creatures who are powerless in the face of relentless, psychologically researched campaigns to profit off our...
May 2012
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Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles”, Essays: First Series (via tanya77)
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There is something vaguely dystopian about oppressed peoples in Syria or Iran...
– Steve Coll for The New Yorker: Why I’m Leaving Facebook
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If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they...
– Thomas Jefferson
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Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday Kristen Wiig.
There goes my last reason for watching the show.
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“THREE and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my pancreas. It turned out to be Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. I was told I would be dead in four to six months. Today I am in that rare coterie of people who have survived this long with the disease. But I did not foresee that after having dedicated myself for 40 years to a life of the law, including more than two...
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You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We...
– Aaron Sorkin’s commencement speech to Syracuse grads
“After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.
Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities — including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed...
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One day in Berlin … Eno came running in and said, “I have heard the sound of the...
– David Bowie, talking about Brian Eno’s reaction to “I Feel Love” in 1977. (via jedsundwall)
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