September 2011
August 2011
3 tags
@area_four bait →
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monkey wars →
“everyone is likely to become a lot happier with recycling services when the...”
– Turns out Somerville is quite happy being green
Watchckck:
Derek Watkins put together this video visualizing the expansion of the United States from 1700 to 1900 through the establishment of post offices.
4 tags
our retirement plan →
“I wish the federal government had defaulted”
– Michele Bachmann (via Joe Scarborough)
“a study of 424 patients admitted to the hospital with acute coronary syndrome...”
– huh
Huck: Mama, I want to do this car puzzle.
Me: Okay, great. Bring it over.
Huck carries the puzzle to the table. We dump the puzzle pieces. Huck puts two together.
Huck: This feels awesome!
“But we’re going to have a better defense this year. And when you have a...”
– John Elway
“On one hand, there is a case to be made that the madness of the right has made...”
– Paul Krugman (via kateoplis)
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because...”
– Ray Bradbury (via writingadvice)
“(1) It means we’ll continue to live in a fantasyland that says we...”
– Kevin Drum on the debt-ceiling “deal”
Andrew Sullivan says:
Sometimes, when dealing with fanatics, hostage takers or ornery authors, it’s what you’ve got to do. And to be fair to the GOP, they ran on a platform like this and won back the House. They have a legitimate place at the table even if they used it for blackmail. Obama surrendered because he really had no adult, responsible choice but to fiddle with the terms of...
