November 2011
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Best wishes to Barney Frank on his retirement.
The 71-year-old veteran member of the House of Representatives takes with him 31 of the remaining 33 vertebrae in the Democratic Party.
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Tim Tebow: Magical White Person
I wrote this and everything.
classicaldotorg:
By Mobutu Sese Seko Even if one wants to feel a genial non-interfering positivity or salutary indifference toward Tim Tebow and his “testimony,” the frequency and intensity with which it’s invoked by NFL Network and ESPN makes it intolerable. By week 14, Skip Bayless will be berating some poor Archbishop about their “beatification bias.” This...
“Mr. Bloomberg met daily with several deputies and commissioners, and as more...”
– This meme, of journalists describing elected officials (or, nonsensically, municipalities) as moving to dismantle these protests because their “patience wore thin” is particularly irksome. Because, and any competent editor/reporter should know this, the right to peaceably assemble isn’t subject to...
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Apparently Björk Shared a List of Her 10 Favorite...
Particularly interesting to see are Aphex Twin’s Drukqs and Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. However, what’s far more interesting is seeing all the albums obviously influential on her music that aren’t there, like:
Metal Machine Music
The Sounds of Apes Throwing Their Feces
Suspension Bridge in a Hurricane
Dumb Fey Art Bullshit
Steel Beam...
It's really cool how a bunch of insanely wealthy...
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If Herman Cain were a Democrat, the GOP would be...
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'Chekhov, why did you kill them? Why did you...
CHEKHOV: Sir… it was Kahane. We picked him up on Ceti Alpha Five… He put… creatures… in our bodies… to control our minds. He made us… say lies… do things. He said there were no Arabs on Ceti Alpha Five… He thought he controlled us, but he did not.
(CHEKHOV rises and clutches desperately at his ears as he lets out an inhuman scream. His body crumples...
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It's cool how Michael Bloomberg owns a business...
That might suggest that Michael Bloomberg’s attitude toward repeatedly demonstrated facts is an indifference to things that disagree with ideology. As the founder of Bloomberg, that casts a negative light on the product it offers. Unless the purpose of “Bloomberg: Business & Financial News” is “Business & Financial News That You Want to Hear.”
O, Titan—O,...
