May 2010
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=41.437647,... →
Decadence.
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Brian Wilson - Smart Girls
In the late 80s,...
'Top kill' effort succeeds in blocking oil leak,... →
Reporting from Houma, La.Engineers have succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.
“I persist in the belief that unless Barack Obama has a degree in underwater...”
– David Brooks
AZ Gov To Obama: How About Some Helicopters And... →
I am actually all for this, or at least the drones part. Could we just deploy a shitload of our hilariously inaccurate drones to all heavily Republican districts?
Kidding!
But still, really? Drones? The 90% civilian casualties kind? Good job.
The Beach Boys - All I Wanna Do
Vintage...
Baltimore
A fun game that I played over the weekend in Baltimore was thunder/gun/dumpster. It’s when you hear a really loud bang, which happens like every fifteen minutes, and try to guess what caused it. I think the odds are pretty evenly split.
Another fun thing I did in Baltimore was sit around in my underwear eating a box of fried chicken, drinking Natty Boh, smoking weed and watching Tim &...
FLASHBACK: Texaco's White-Collar Bigots (1996) →
According to the transcript, the executives openly discussed shredding minutes of meetings and other documents that were sought by black employees in order to bolster their charges that Texaco discriminates against minorities in promotions and fosters a racially hostile corporate environment. “This diversity thing, you know how black jelly beans agree,” remarked Texaco treasurer...
Watchsouthpol:
rubenfeld:
Rachel @Maddow interviews Rand Paul. video ht @joanwalsh
Message to potential United States Senators: if you say you object to a tenth of the Civil Rights Act, it’s not an “abstract” or “theoretical” or “obscure” discussion. It’s kind of part of the interview process for the job to tell us about this stuff.
Towards the end, when he intimated that the second amendment...
"And he posted an image of the prophet Muhammad... →
This is in reference to a recent blog post by Tea Party Express CHAIRMAN Mark Williams in which he referred to Allah as a “monkey-god” that is being talked about a lot today. To his credit, he did made a point of making the distinction that Allah is only a monkey-god (which certainly sounds at least sort of racist) when terrorists worship him. But then he called people who worship...
Rand Paul Says Seatbelts Shouldn't Be Required →
apsies:
Mom: So what have you been up to all day?
Me: Oh, you know, counting all the reasons why some people in our state have LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS.
I wrote about this a month ago, BEFORE IT WAS COOL to be all wtf Rand Paul. It’s just so crazy that you can say that you don’t want to live in a nanny state where the government can tell us what kinds of seat belts you have to wear,...
Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture, Call it... →
sarahchristine:
matt-t: “Everybody smokes dope after work,” said Anthony Bourdain, the author and chef who made his name chronicling drugs and debauchery in professional kitchens. “People you would never imagine.”
I know someone who will really identify with this article.
Yup! This guy.
I Cut Spending By 10% - CATO Institute →
I think every good-faith exploration of how to trim our budget deficit is worth reading. Nothing rings more hollow than the old specifics-free “cut spending lower taxes” mantra. But while this guy offers specific places he would trim the budget — largely in the subsidies department — his reasoning seems pretty asstastic. Par example:
Cuts in subsidies will cause...
We Just Had the Warmest April EVER - Gawker →
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sweating
Looks like I picked the wrong week to switch deodorants.
“Do u remember the popular 2k9/early 2k10 buzzband known as jj? It seems like...”
– HIPSTER RUNOFF
Sadly on point.
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Well, I think that’s a little exaggerated. No. 3 kinda stinks, but No. 2 is still good enough to keep people interested in seeing jj live (even if they are apparently not great live), and if they pull it together on the next album, they’ll be in the...
“You’ll name names? You need to relax relaxes.”
– Videogum
Speedy New Traders Make Waves Far From Wall St. -... →
We’re heard a lot about high-frequency trading recently, but until this article, I wasn’t really sure what that meant. And now that I do know what it means, I can’t for the life of me figure out why it isn’t 100% illegal.
These are short-term bets. Very short. The founder of Tradebot, in Kansas City, Mo., told students in 2008 that his firm typically held stocks for 11...
michelle-said:
Rod Stewart - Young Turks
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