February 2012
13 posts
I just noticed Everyday app on my phone and checked out my video. I figure I’ll delete the app, so I should share my creation with the world.
Ladies?
Fresh Fix: Does this sound like 'Small Government... →
lafix:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is deadly serious about stopping gays from getting married.
“The battle we’re engaged in right now is same sex marriage, ultimately that is the very foundation of our country, the family, what the family structure is going to look like,” Santorum…
Santorum is a lunatic. It’s frightening that there are people out there OK with...
On coming off as racist.
dearcoketalk:
You can really come off as racist sometimes, a culture racist.
A culture racist? Ugh. Your skin is thinner than your vocabulary.
The word you’re looking for is ethnocentrist, and if you had the slightest clue, you’d realize that I’m actually more of a cultural relativist.
I’m also an asshole, but since it’s easier for you to get offended than it is to get educated, you can’t...
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of...
– Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
January 2012
16 posts
I'm listening to NPR.
wordishness:
I will never understand the opposition to gay marriage as anything other than a manifestation of fear.
Agreed, and it makes me ask, a fear of what? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
December 2011
19 posts
2011
I’m not usually one who gets excited for New Year’s Eve. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll go out, spend time with friends, and reminisce, but it’s not usually a big thing to me. For whatever reason, New Year’s and St. Patrick’s Day are two “holidays” that I just don’t get all excited about. I’m not necessarily sentimental about particular...
The “modern” GOP is actually a pre-modern identity-based party. It is...
– A Feature Not a Bug (via azspot)
Frank Chimero: Seven Incredible Things from Today... →
viafrank:
A man helped a woman carry her stroller down the stairs to the subway. They got to the bottom, and he saw another woman approach the top of the stair with her stroller, and he went back up to help her, too.
I realized that fire breathes just like we do. Oxygen in, carbon dioxide out.
I waved at…
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November 2011
34 posts