December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
12 posts
Favorited on Twitter: @Mike_FTW: Ohio State’s new...
lindseywb:
from http://bit.ly/mOAhCb
gross
“Put bluntly, if you call yourself a reading man, but don’t read books by...”
– excerpt from the Atlantic in response to the fact that Esquire featured only one female author in their list ”75 books every man should read”
I’m adpoting a puppy and I am SO excited!
There should be a book scented air freshener . I...
teachingliteracy:
miklaw
Demeter makes one. You can also buy the scent as perfume, cologne, bodywash, and lotion.
Herman Cain’s Guide To Workplace Etiquette →
If a female co-worker does great work, be sure to let her know. Motorboat her or if her breasts are too small, stick money in her pants. It’s a simple, effective way to say, “You’re a valuable member of the team.” She will NOT take this wrong way, unless she’s a stuck-up prude from Uzbeki-beki-stan-flan.
I just signed up for my first running race, 4.6 miles. I hope that I don’t finish in last place, which, to be honest, might be a lofty goal.
“Wanting a world in which men and women can work alongside each other equally...”
– Sally Kohn on the sexual harassment accusations against Herman Cain (via downlo)
THIS.
“I was not amazed but disgusted when John Boehner and his crew tried to justify...”
– From a self-identified “voice from the 1%” post, summing up everything that is so absurd about conservative fiscal policy of the past 30 years. (via jimray)
October 2011
15 posts
This is my first Halloween as a homeowner and I am perhaps a bit too excited about the idea of getting trick-or-treaters.
Downlo: Republican delusions, deceptions, and... →
invertebrate-party:
dr-wtfox:
downlo:
With a 2012 election looming, GOP candidates and leaders are insisting that we ought to blame a Democratic president who’s in his first term for decades of Republican policies. Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Republican leadership are asking us…
“One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow...”
– Stephen Fry (via doeheart)
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via bloodcurdlingsameness)
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En excerpt from class notes:
“the more complex the mental task the lower should the level of stress be”
Awesome! I didn’t know that my instructor was Yoda. Maybe the next chapter will teach me how to use the force to get my car out of a snow ditch.
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September 2011
10 posts
You know you’re a partier when your break from studying is doing laundry.
My hometown, Reading, PA, is now the poorest city...
I can think of better honors.
Read about it in the NY Times
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Downlo: I'm holding a racial reality bakesale. →
tsg2011:
Native American people are holding cupcakes in a room.
White people enter the room, and each get to take a cupcake from a Native person. Then, they kill the Native Americans, and corral the remaining empty-handed Native Americans into a corner.
Then, they go into another room and…
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I feel kind of weird when I read the list of someone’s favorite books on their facebook profile and realize that they’ve only listed books that they were required to read for school. Are they the best books that these people have ever read, or are they the only books that they’ve read?
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office intern: Your dad sounds like he’s a big goofball but strangely also a hardass.
me: That might be one of the best descriptions of him that I’ve ever heard.
August 2011
20 posts
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Beyonce dated, got married, and THEN got pregnant....
romanicuspondicus:
thechosenjuan:
uh
this post makes me really angry
because well fuck you
who’s to say that women can’t do this in whatever the fuck order they please
of course a man posted this
of course
(source: http://callmeswavey.tumblr.com/post/9549583711)
FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
Why is it “Ladies take note”? It’s not like someone gets pregnant on...
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
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Downlo: Matt Yglesias on conservative nostalgia →
This puts me in a mind of House Speaker John Boehner’s explicitly expressed view that the problem with President Obama is that he and the 111th Congress were “snuffing out the America that I grew up in.” As I said at the time, on its face it’s difficult to make sense of that. John Boehner was born in 1949. Does he feel nostalgic for the higher marginal tax rates of the America he grew up in? For...
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