May 2011
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“The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible....”
– Michael Rivero
(via abrutalkind) (via loveyourchaos, fucknobigbrother) (via commondense) (via anarchyofthemind) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
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“The best guess has to be that there is no there there — that if they ever get to...”
– Paul Krugman :: Ryan and Heritage
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“There is the unwillingness to listen, a ferociously stubborn not getting it on...”
– Shakesville: The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck
April 2011
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hyacinthian:
“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged men—insist on playing devil’s advocate, desirous of a debate on some aspect of feminist theory or reproductive rights or some other subject generally filed under the heading: Women’s Issues. These intellectual, clever, engaged men want to endlessly probe my argument for weaknesses, want to wrestle over...
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-redux:
what am i doing
for homework, drink a glass of cognac in a bathtub.
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Romney wants to ‘hang’ Obama with misery index - Political Intelligence - Boston.com
“You remember during the Ronald Reagan/Jimmy Carter debates? That Ronald Reagan came up with this great thing about the ‘misery index,’ and that he hung that around Jimmy Carter’s neck, and that had a lot to do with Jimmy Carter losing. Well, we’re going to have to hang...
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“Medicine may be hard, but health insurance is simple. The rest of the world’s...”
– The Health of Nations
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“But of course, the whiff of being accused of racism is going to turn out to be...”
– Trump’s Racial, Populist Appeal | The New Republic
So this is depressing.
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[see also :: robot-heart-politics.tumblr.com/post/5051305080]
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“…we should all be so lucky as to spend a year traveling the globe without having...”
– Videogum’s “The Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time: Eat, Pray, Love.”
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“The culture wars really got started with the battle over civil rights....”
– pandagon.net
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“Like I said yesterday, one of the things that has happened is that Obama, by...”
– pandagon.net
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The Oil Company Gusher
robot-heart-politics:
robertreich:
Exxon-Mobil’s first quarter earnings of $10.7 billion are up 69 percent from last year. That’s the most profit the company has earned since the third quarter of 2008 — perhaps not coincidentally, around the time when gas prices last reached the lofty $4 a gallon.
This gusher is an embarrassment for an industry seeking to keep its $4 billion annual tax...
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“You kind of get the feeling that these guys really felt that, if the question of...”
– Mightygodking.com » That was the last inch
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WatchOil’d (by Chris Harmon)
A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.
As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.
So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I...
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“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of...”
– Carl Sagan
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On Christianity, or Let's Poke A Hole In Easter...
therealkatiewest:
seej500:
Folks, I have something to admit.
I’m a Christian.
I know, I know; it’s deeply unfashionable, and doesn’t really seem to fit with my whole I-LIEK-SCIENCE agenda, but if you’ll allow me to explain, you might discover that you too are a Christian, and that perhaps more importantly, a lot of the highest-profile Christians out there, aren’t.
My parents used to send me...
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The difference between the American and Canadian...
therealkatiewest:
Okay, so here is a basic breakdown about the differences between the Canadian and American systems of government. Obviously it’s more complicated than this, but I think this is helpful in explaining just how exactly the Canadian government can have so many damn federal elections in so short a time.
Head of state:
America: President
Canada: Queen of England
Head of...
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“The thing to say on your web is that since PSN is free you can’t really complain...”
– Penny Arcade - It Only Doesn’t
[evidently the playstation network has been down since friday wednesday and sony’s self-aggrandizing pr department has been predictably oblique on the matter.]
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