October 2010
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I think there’s an inherent difference between a natural born Democrat and a natural born Republican. Democrats are naturally for helping other people more and boosting up the poorer people to have a better life, not putting all the benefits among the richest people on earth…
- Former President Jimmy Carter on Real Time with Bill Maher
Fellow Democrats/liberals/progressives:...
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WatchDoes this teaser about “voter fraud” disturb anyone as much as it does me? In that it reeks of GOP/teabagger fright tactics and also that WSB seems to pound the shit out of these “investigations” every election cycle?
I don’t know. I hate to speculate about a piece that hasn’t even run yet. Maybe if I saw WSB running as many investigations about minority and...
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WatchDid you know that before T,L and C were just random lumped together letters forming the name of a network with programming like Sarah Palin’s Alaska and Let’s See How Many Kids This One Lady Can Pop Out Of Her Twat, it actually stood for The Learning Channel? It’s true! Wikipedia says so!
The channel mostly featured documentary content pertaining to nature, science, history,...
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Worst site design ever? →
Hmm, where is this place?
237C W 15th St, PANAMA CITY, FL 32401
Well, that explains it.
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Woman Drove Mummified Body in Passenger Seat,... →
Insert carpool lane joke here.
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I am forever on the cusp
I watched the first three episodes of Breaking Bad last night. I think I’ve stumbled upon something here.
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WatchThe Unchained Tour of Georgia hits Manuel’s October 28th and 29th. Let’s all go listen to stories and support indie bookstores!
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WatchI wish I knew Cabbagetown in the ’80s.
Via.
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Buckhead CVS Robbed for Syrup Used in 'Purple... →
magdalina:
While Hobbs couldn’t say for certain what the robbers intended to do with the drug, he said that a store employee “was saying that he’s heard that some hip-hop music, rap songs have that particular ingredient mentioned.”
Promethazine is the main ingredient used in “purple drank,” a recreational drug popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.
Other names for...
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microcosms
I just came to the troubling realization that if you applied a label to every person in our office, I might be considered “the hipster?” At the office before this one, I was “the straight,” at the one before that I was “the eccentric” and before that, “the liberal.”
You see, all of my jobs have been very, very lame. Except the one where I was the...
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Picadel. Picaruch. Rabbadiad scupatad.
These were euphemisms in my family for penis, vagina and what I’m guessing is something along the lines of little shithead, respectively. I have no idea how they’re supposed to be spelled. I always thought they were legitimate Italian slang words (Tommy, quit playing with you picadel!), but after extensive research (meaning ten minutes of Googling different variations), I now realize...
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Summer of Megadeth: Kentucky Beer Cheese →
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I like you. And so I’m going to share a recipe with you that has been a secret in my family for many, many years. Some Yankees may try it and say, “It’s a secret for a reason,” the implication being just what you’d imagine, but as far as homemade junk food goes this is what you eat while drinking beer and hanging around generally doing nothing on a crisp autumn afternoon.
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Upon being served a round of Negro Modelo with lime at a Mexican restaurant:
ME: (taking the lime out of my beer) I don’t know if I’m pro-lime or anti-lime. I keep going back and forth. Lime is great, but why mess with a perfectly good beer?
DAD: So, I guess you’re saying you’re border-lime.
MOM: (squeezing the crap out of her wedge into the bottle, then sucking on the...
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A Tribe Called Quest, Stressed Out (Bjork’s...
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NPR Poll Offers Sliver Of Hope For Democrats →
brooklynmutt:
PLEASE, NO. I’m trying very hard to keep my expectations to a minimum. Okay, well I haven’t had to try that hard.
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Guardian: Why do people hate hipsters? →
The first is white, urban, cool dudes in Manhattan’s Lower East Side circa 1999. This summation begins with a string of keywords: “trucker hats; undershirts called ‘wifebeaters’ worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon; ‘porno’ or ‘paedophile’ moustaches;...
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The more things change...
He could not believe that any halfway intelligent person took such things seriously-and yet! Surely it was obvious that Joseph McCarthy and his cronies were liars and bullies, mere political opportunists, yet, absurdly, the Senator’s star continued to rise, to rise and rise, as others sank, or were destroyed: not even old Harry Truman could stop him now. Not even J. Edgar Hoover could stop...
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Wes Anderson's undergraduate writing →
utanalecta:
As editor of Analecta, the official literary and arts journal of the University of Texas at Austin, I am excited to welcome you to our new blog! At analectajournal.com you will find information about the journal, announcements regarding local literary goings-on, book reviews/ recommendations,…
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WatchThe House That Drips Blood on Alex, or twelve minutes and forty-nine seconds of pure gold.
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Ralph Reed: God Spoke Through Sean Hannity In... →
I doubt Ralph has any idea how counterproductive he’s being for his organization. I mean, with a God like this, AMIRITE?
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This. →
The room fades and is replaced with a shopping concourse dimly related to the one at Grand Central Terminal, and I wander into a cheese shop to find Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and GZA doing tandem stand-up comedy for an audience of customers so absorbed in finding the right sort of gouda or brie that they all but fail to notice the two rap legends vying for their laughter. I listen for a...
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“There are polls that Tea Party members respect [Glenn] Beck more so than anyone...”
– Historian Sean Wilentz on the power of Glenn Beck, in an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, October 13, 2010. (via nprfreshair)
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“What better barometer of the electoral mood than the State Fair of Texas in...”
– Are Texans Tired Of Gov. Rick Perry?
Oh, Jesus, just fucking secede already.
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It’s that time again! Sponge, The Toadies or...
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17 Minute Behind the Scenes Featurette on AMC’s The Walking Dead
Well I’m excited.
Me too! Me too!
Although it’s kind of telling that the one time Atlanta gets a majorly hyped production that was filmed here AND is actually meant to take place here (The Shed looks really weird with a Borders across the street THE BLIND SIDE), the city’s...
