August 2011
2 posts
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May 2011
2 posts
Imagine if we as a country defined national security as the health, well-being,...
– Susie Madrak (via gregpaul)
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
7 posts
Life before Google - Imgur →
Truth
January 2011
4 posts
Unreality - Your Mama's So Fat, Her Patronus is a... →
Greatest comment-chain I’ve ever read.
The battle over the Constitution →
Ours is one of the oldest written constitutions in the world and the first, anywhere, to be submitted to the people for their approval. As Madison explained, the Constitution is “of no more consequence than the paper on which it is written, unless it be stamped with the approbation of those to whom it is addressed … THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.”
theatlantic:
abcworldnews:
Vice-President Joe Biden might want to think about getting a few other pieces of advice for young ladies he meets.
So wait…can we date before we’re 30?
I love a solid nugget of Biden wisdom … no, really, I do.
December 2010
19 posts
Brenda Shares: Boy or Girl? →
brendashares:
Dear Baby,
Please be a little exhibitionist and cooperate with the ultrasound technician today. We don’t care if you’re a boy or a girl but don’t you want to stop be called “it” and whatever fruit of the week you’re supposed to be the size of? Remember when you were a prune?? Sorry, I know…
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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September,...
– Mark Twain (via hippiecrack)
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we...
November 2010
20 posts
Is 30 Rock a Muppet Show Rip-Off? →
I appreciate the people who use their time to do things like this so I can laugh.
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Clive Staples Lewis - On the 47th Anniversary of...
“All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.” - C.S. Lewis (The Last Battle)
For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of...
– Benjamin Franklin in a letter to his daughter (via 18thcentury)
Dave Eggers: From 'Staggering Genius' to America's... →
Author, publisher and literary trendsetter: Dave Eggers is all those, and he’s fast becoming the conscience of liberal America too. Here he tells how he went from ‘staggering genius’ to the man who gives a voice to the downtrodden and dispossessed