October 2010
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It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. →
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s...
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I was prepared for a number of ridiculous things...
mind. blown.
I guess they finally let Yusuf Islam back into the country!
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U.N. Sets Goals to Reduce the Extinction Rate →
The agreement, known as the Nagoya Protocol, sets a goal of cutting the current extinction rate by half or more by 2020. The earth is losing species at 100 to 1,000 times the historical average, according to scientists who call the current period the worst since the dinosaurs were lost 65 million years ago.
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Participants acknowledged the hurdles to getting the agreement translated into...
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ON THE PLUS SIDE, Pele, our chinchilla, has a...
on the negative side, it’s her face covered in blood because she’s been having bloody nose issues and won’t let us clean her up.
It quite literally looks like she just got done eating her babies, which makes her a very terrifying chinchilla indeed.
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MI Gubernatorial Candidates on the Environment →
In a rare feat, Republican candidate Rick Snyder has been able to win over some environmental groups which is slightly heartening since he is pretty heavily favored to win governorship by most counts, but Virg Benero has been able to actually show through his actions that he is very environmentally-friendly and I am still holding out hope that just maybe he’ll have a shot at winning.
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“If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian,...”
– Margaret Cho (via fuckyeahfemmes)
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Because the heat doesn't seem to be working in my...
however, I feel completely uninspired and am already over baking apple-desserts, and yet still have almost a half bushel of apples left.
blergh. WHITE WHINE
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Midland (Arkansas) School Board Member Gives Voice... →
I was going to copy this school board member’s initial comment, but thought better of it because it’s rather sickening, incredibly hateful, and wouldn’t want an impressionable young person to read it without first being warned.
From the deepest recesses of my heart I do not understand how someone with so much hate can be allowed to influence children’s education, when at...
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Shit better be gettin' fierce soon!
After all this talk of apocalyptic wind, if this slight breeze and pleasant temperatures is all we’re going to be left with, I’m going to be awfully disappointed.
The weather media elite are just fear mongering again!
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Just discovered that Ana Gasteyer was Elphaba in a...
Mind. Blown.
Also, I finally got around to seeing the unfortunately straight-to-video Parker Posey/Rachel Dratch/Amy Poehler movie Spring Breakdown and it fullfilled all of my fantasies and more! I think it’s kind of interesting that it went straight to video when it has such an amazing cast (also featuring: Jane Lynch, Missi Pyle, Mae Whitman, Amber Tamblyn, Will Arnett, Loretta Devine,...
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Movie Reviews: The Weekend of Andrew Garfield
So last night I saw The Social Network and I saw Never Let Me Go tonight, in both movies Andrew Garfield plays a prominent role.
I’m not-so-secretly an old man and I use new technology rather begrudgingly and kind of hate facebook, so when I heard they were making a movie about it I was kind of disgusted and had absolutely no interest in it…until I heard that Aaron Sorkin was going to...
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Just spending my day baking like a Jewish mother
it’s all cool.
First up: Jewish Apple Cake
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Watchverymarykate:
Woody Allen
Once again, I must hope that you are subscribed to and watching Very Mary Kate. These short videos are completely ridiculous and quite hilarious.
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Tea Party ‘founder’: Palin, Gingrich a ‘joke’ |... →
A financial blogger and ex-CEO credited with being one of the original “founders” of the Tea Party has come out against the movement, saying it has been hijacked by the very people it was protesting and is now obsessed with “guns, gays and God.”
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Denninger writes: “Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than the Republican Party stealing the anger of a...
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Thanks for the support
absurdlakefront:
There have never been and will never be enough homosexuals to constitute a majority over any significant population. All of the rights and freedoms that homosexuals have fought for and won have been with the strong help of heterosexual allies. The heterosexual family, friends, and colleagues of queer people, and those with a sense of justice extending beyond their own personal...
FATA: Inside Pakistan's Tribal Regions →
An overlay map that compares Pakistani support for the US/Taliban/foreign Al Qaeda fighters compared to the frequency of drone attacks…plus some other information. Pretty interesting stuff.
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“As a neuroscientist, I can tell you that being LGBT is completely biological....”
– Youtube comment on this.
Interesting angle. More theists, specifically Christians, should adapt this point of view.
(via imnotrorygilmore)
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Last night I made a very large and very delicious...
but it doesn’t even look like a dent was made in our overwhelming supply of apples from our recent apple-picking adventure.
There is going to be applesauce in my future, that’s for sure…but I’m going to be needing more recipes before we have an infestation of fruit flies and other unpleasantness.
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“Palin went on to dismiss Dowd, encouraging “liberty-loving Americans to just...”
– From The Daily Beast’s Cheat Sheet re: This Article
I am still in complete shock that any self-respecting human being can support this woman, or even tolerate her voice enough to want to watch her speak. If an adult woman felt it necessary to talk to me this way, I would probably slap her....
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Michigan is still losing
Last night, the local NBC affiliate aired a ‘discussion’ with the two Michigan gubernatorial candidates (I don’t really know what they called it, Snyder has made it very clear he won’t do more than the one debate that already happened, and they each left the room while the moderator asked the other one questions…it was all very weird) and I am just becoming...
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McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for... →
Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald’s Happy Meal: What do they all have in common? A shocking resistance to Mother Nature’s cycle of decomposition and biodegradability, apparently.
That’s the disturbing point brought home by the latest project of New York City-based artist and photographer Sally Davies, who bought a McDonald’s Happy Meal back in April and left it...
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Forgive me Father, for I have sinned
Spotted entering REI: One of the most attractive men I have ever laid eyes on…who happened to be in full priest regalia. Except his pants were ridiculously tight and definitely maximized his assets (pun intended), so I’m not entirely convinced he wasn’t actually a stripper on his way to a gig.
