June 2010
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Jun 30th
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Jun 29th
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“Next thing you know it’ll be in the Geneva Conventions.”
– Journalese blacklist: Deplane Glib, but funny.
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Perfect 10 minutes: Survey of men and women... →
10 MINUTES???!!! THAT’S ALL?
Jun 27th
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
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“The incident raises an interesting question. Is Twitter really appropriate in...”
– A Tweet Too Far? Utah Firing Squad Execution Announced on Twitter If social media is not used to rub one’s nose in reality, then it is of no use at all. Tweet everything.
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Before Juanele was called Juanele, before we had any idea we were going to start running an arts-only blog, before we had a nice camera or an external microphone, Cesar Menegazzo gave me the inspiration for our particular perspective on the arts in Buenos Aires. He said two things that struck me. On his founding Wussmann Gallery: “It all happened without myself even knowing what I was...
Jun 19th
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Jun 17th
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“The heart is neither given nor stolen. The heart surrenders.”
– Onrack the Broken from House of Chains, A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen By Steven Erickson
Jun 15th
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“The U.S. supports democracy in the Middle East, but if it leads to the wrong...”
– Yes, It’s Collective Punishment
Jun 15th
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Jun 14th
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“It seems “ass” is all right, though.”
– Swearing in public in America
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Weathervane, by Joaquín Cociña (by diluvio) The drawings did not survive the animation process. As they should not have. This animation has the tactility and spontaneity and humility to feel and look more expressive than most of the tidier animated videos that go viral and leave me scratching my head as to why. As in: Oh, grand, another rotoscoped video for another retro pop star. Yawn. ...
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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“She can say yes or she says yes.”
– That Proverbial Itch Starts Again « Oi With The Poodles Already
Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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“AIPAC is just waiting for president Palin to back an acceleration of settlements...”
– Is Netanyahu Really “Bafflingly Stupid”? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Jun 12th
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“‘YOUR LOSS JEW BOY.’”
– A fax from Morrissey btw, BUTT rocks.
Jun 12th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 11th
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“People at the soup kitchen are excited about the World Cup. Those who have...”
– South Africa Hides Its Homeless Ahead Of World Cup : NPR
Jun 11th
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Jun 11th
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“Turkey cannot be thought of as European until it stops lying about Armenia, gets...”
– The flotilla foul-up pits former friends Israel and Turkey against each other. - By Christopher Hitchens
Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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“Was this [torture] sadism? No. It was bureaucracy.”
– Illegal Human Experimentation? Bureaucracy is the way illegality and immorality become institutionalized and normalized. That may well have been Orwell’s greatest insight.
Jun 9th
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“I suspect that, less than a quarter century from now, same-sex marriage will be...”
– Marriage and Divorce No doubt. And: Finally. All the more reason for me to avoid it.
Jun 9th
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Jun 7th
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“If you want to assign real, structural blame [for the oil spill], it belongs in...”
– Another disaster awaits the land of oil addicts
Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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“The fastest-growing group along the sexuality continuum are men who...”
– Gay? Whatever, Dude You might never had heard it if you had never read Kinsey, that is.
Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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“As we all know, there is nothing more un-American that opposing Israeli policy....”
– John Cole on what it takes to be an American
Jun 5th
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“One dead 19-year-old American with 4 bullet holes in his head (especially one of...”
– The Israeli flotilla attack: victimhood, aggression and tribalism
Jun 5th
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“They should just plug the oil leak with every single existing copy of Atlas...”
– How Soon Until the Free Market Stops the Oil Spill? Laughed out loud. I must have been one of the few adolescents who read Rand and thought she was a creepy, pompous cunt.
Jun 4th
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“The act of remembering changes our memories.”
– Meeting Bugs Bunny at Disneyland
Jun 4th
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“U.S. multinational corporations paid roughly $16 billion in taxes on $700...”
– “Financial privacy jurisdictions.” I wonder if Orwell thought of that one. The lesson here is this: Corporations aren’t just people, they’re homo superior. Offshore Corporate Tax Havens: Why Are They Still Allowed?
Jun 3rd
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Jun 3rd
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“Netanyahu is simply being Israel’s Cheney.”
– Chait Wakes Up
Jun 2nd