February 2012
David Graeber’s Debt: My First 5,000 Words →
After all, it is in the very nature of a question like “What do I owe my parents?” that there is not and can never be a final, numerically answer. It is a question that we re-visit and re-negotiate every minute we are with them; obligation and love form an endless Möbius strip, through which our complex interdependence on each other makes the idea of paying off that debt – and of thereby...
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“PBR beard keytar, cliche cillum est commodo marfa put a bird on it. Dolore...”
– Lorem Ipsum for Hipsters (via @joelkarnold)
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Saw that the lotto jackpot is up over $300 million
With a little (re: a metric shit-tonne) bit of luck, I could be shopping for my very own place in New York City next week.
And offering up money to get short films/pilots made.
And replacing all of Wok’s missing vinyl.
And buying a round for fucking everybody.
It’d be pretty nice, I think.
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TELL CONGRESS: Don't block affordable access to... →
think-progress:
Please share the petition by reblogging this.
“I’m going to go out on a limb, be a bit conspiratorial, and say it’s no longer...”
– Balloon Juice » Religious liberty expands to include all employers, and all women, and all contraceptive coverage
Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to read the comments. This does tie in the Religious nuts, anti-women crowd, and the Ayn Rand-worshipping glibertarians: they all want to move...
“In English, this means that no entity has to cover birth control in a health...”
– Marco Rubio’s Plan Could Cut Off Birth Control Coverage for Millions | Mother Jones
It’s 2012. Not 1812. How the fuck is this discussion still happening? Rubio should be run out of DC on a rail, then pelted with rotting produce when he arrived back in Florida, not cheerfully talking...
“It may be safe to say that there was an implicit racist assumption by the...”
– Hullabaloo
The Perils of Driving/Owning an Old Car
Sometimes you can be driving (slowly) down Peachtree, cursing the Floridiots* who either can’t drive, or don’t know where they are (their FL license plate is a dead giveaway, and that “Go Gators” bumper sticker doesn’t help), and then the light turns red and your brake pedal, which works, feels odd.
At first you think this is the result of downloading a pedometer...
reblog if you want an extremely sexual message in...
I’m just curious how “extreme” y’all can be.
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Channing Tatum is pretty much the dude version of...
Channing Tatum is pretty much the dude version of Megan Fox
“1. We’ve now set a price for forgeries and fabricating documents. It’s $2000 per...”
– The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement « naked capitalism
Above are just the top three. It only looks like a good deal if you thought the big banks were going to really get away with everything.
(Also of note: the statute of limitations for prosecuting securities...
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“The Church has been “beaten up” over the last 10 or 12 years...”
– No, This Is Why We’ve Been Beating Up on the Church - Esquire
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“But when the conversation moves away from abortion to contraceptives - as it has...”
– Why White House sees political opportunity in the contraception battle - The Washington Post
I’d say this also makes it easier to bring up the fact that the anti-choice crowd is largely anti-sex and anti-women. And that if they get Roe overturned, they’ll go after Griswold v....
“Yesterday, Dalkey Archive released a new edition of William Gaddis’ postmodern...”
– Flavorwire » An Essential Postmodern Reading List
I’ve read all but three, and now hope to get through those three (including the infamously daunting The Recognitions) this year. (Also, it sounds like I should add Blood and Guts In High School to my list of “novels that truly break...
A pro-choice Democratic legislator has taken a...
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abaldwin360:
State Senator Constance Johnson of Oklahoma City has introduced a measure that calls to mind the famous Monty Python “Every Sperm is Sacred” sketch from the 1983 film “The Meaning of Life.”
The concept of “personhood” defines human life as beginning at the moment of conception and, in the case of Oklahoma’s pending Senate Bill 1433, says that the resulting fetus “at...
“For the scene, in which Clarke wound up eating several pounds of a horse heart...”
– ‘Game of Thrones’: Go Inside Season 1’s ‘Make or Break Moment’ (Exclusive Video) - Hollywood Reporter
The horse heart was made from gummy bears!
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theonion:
Meet The Man Inside The Nicolas Cage Costume
Star Fix has an exclusive interview with the man who has enchanted audiences for the last 30 years playing the delightfully wacky, oversized puppet of Nicolas Cage.
This is by far the best thing I have seen in a long, long, long time.
“It’s amazing how a tax rate increase is supposed to destroy the incentives...”
– Hullabaloo- “David Frum Joins the Hippie Chorus”
“A minor major seventh chord, or minor/major seventh chord About this sound play...”
– Minor major seventh chord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It’s possibly surpassed the diminished chord voicing as my favorite “spooky/eerie” voicing (though these are a giant pain in the hand/wrist/fingers to play on a standard-tuned guitar.)
Also, almost all of...
“According to Miss Representation, the organization that launched the...”
– Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads | Mother Jones
This is largely what confuses me about sexist advertising. When you want someone’s money why would you silence or ignore them?
Also read: Ten Lady Innovators Best Buy Could’ve Put in Its Super Bowl Ad
(via meganwest)
