January 2012
4 posts
octothorp:
“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” - Stephen Harper, Canadian Press, April 18, 2005
Interesting. Very Interesting.
I couldn’t agree more.
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
8 posts
The "Nevermind" baby at 20. →
Watchthedailywhat:
Political Ad Parody of the Day: I probably wouldn’t vote for Herman Cain if he made it to the general elections. But I’d vote for Mike Tyson as Herman Cain in a heartbeat. (Mostly because I’d be concerned about the grievous bodily harm that might befall me if I didn’t.)
[funnyordie.]
Classic!
October 2011
14 posts
If the Angels never made the (really stupid) trade...
Okay, so… What if the Angels never traded Mike Napoli and Juan Rivera to the Blue Jays for Vernon Wells, who then moved Napoli to the Texas Rangers for Frank Fransisco. This is very rudimentary but - all things remaining equal - should fairly accurately reflect what the 2011 season may have looked like for these two teams had the Angels not made this trade. This might be nothing new for any...
Old “laws” and grand theories, whether Marxist, capitalist, or the ostensibly neutral reflections of social theorists, have in vital regards proven worse than useless, often substituting the desires or obfuscating rationalizations of vested interests where real clarity is required. At this critical point in history they all offer far less than what is essential both to describe and...
Report: Increasing Number Of Educators Found To Be... →
WASHINGTON—A shocking report released by the U.S. Department of Education this week revealed that a growing number of the nation’s educators struggle on a daily basis with some form of teaching disability…
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September 2011
10 posts
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Carl CrawLOLford
trifesoup:
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Expostulations of orange juice: “I think Canadians... →
octothorp:
“I think Canadians would like to concentrate on some good news.” Mr. Speaker, our government is focused on what matters to Canadians, and that would be jobs and the economy, not the mud- slinging by the opposition. Let me say again that the facts have not changed. This issue has been…
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Regarding King County, Seattle:
The county was originally named after William Rufus King who was Vice-President when the Washington Territory was created. In 1986 a motion was introduced by Ron Sims (a black Democrat from Seattle), and Bruce Laing (a white Republican from suburban Renton) to rename the county after Martin Luther King, Jr.[1] No public hearings or votes were taken on the change.[2]
On February 24, 1986,...
The triumph of Jamie Oliver’s ‘nemesis’ →
August 2011
11 posts
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of...
Holliday bugged by moth stuck in ear
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com | 08/23/11 12:07 AM ET
ST. LOUIS — Matt Holliday’s maddening season of maladies continued Monday night with the strangest one yet. Holliday had to be removed from the Cardinals’ loss to the Dodgers after a moth flew into his right ear.
With two outs in the eighth inning, Holliday had to be tended to by the team’s athletic training staff....
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