February 2012
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“That’s exactly what made America so different, we don’t have that colonial...”
– David Barton
HAHHAHAHAHAHAAA!
What? Really?
I swear, some people will say anything.
(via greaterthanlapsed)
Also from the article: ” One of the things we often see with other militaries is they rule by intimidation, by threats, by terrorism really, they want to scare the dickens out of the...
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“He is rigid and a homophobic. He said, ‘I want a constitutional amendment to ban...”
– Former US Senator Al Simpson, (R-Wyo.) on Rick Santorum. In 2011, Simpson emailed me this statement on HB 74, a bill to ban recognition of same-sex marriage in Wyoming:
“I can’t imagine anything more inhuman, insensitive and unfair. Wyoming people believe in getting the government out of their...
“Manny Ramirez is the worst human being I’ve ever met.”
– Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona once said of Manny Ramirez. (via boston)
You wanna play spies?
Sitting in my chair, because I’m not allowed to sleep in my bed for another 5 weeks, wearing a heart monitor, because I was bradycardic in recovery last week, and knowing my insomnia is going to keep me up again tonight …
I - I’m just a delight. A moveable feast if ever there was one.
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Quote of the Day 2:
I’m at a real loss here. I guess the poor white girl should never have married outside her pure whiteness?
[Othello] explores the consequences of an inter-racial marriage that is a common occurrence in this increasingly liberal world of ours.
Quote of the Day:
It may seem that there is something interesting going on, although it’s not.
Well, that’s quite a limb you’ve gotten yourself out on.
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Speaking of Yankees...
greengrey:
tehblackbirdisincognito:
Once I was dating a dude from St. Louis and we had lunch with my grandmother when she was still alive. She asked him if he would like to try some of her collard greens and he declined. She gasped and said, “ARE YOU A YANKEE?”
I’ve never heard “yankee” used to describe people from the Midwest.
To Southerners, anyone born outside the Confederacy is a...
Coke Gets Shit Done
I went to Coca-Cola U in Atlanta, and let me tell you, Pepsi ain’t got NUTHIN on Coke. One year, a building was being renovated, and the contractor brought in a Pepsi machine for the crew. And set it out in broad daylight.
This was wrong.
That thing was operational for the rest of the job, but it was blacked out and boxed up in plywood before lunch. Apparently the crew really liked getting...
@ Jack
Thing is, we hate bad rom-coms; it is a hard genre—like doing something new with New York Cheesecake—but my real beef is not with crap like ‘Something Borrowed’—I mean that trailer smelled like cat urine.
‘One Day’ has a cast that usually picks good scripts—Hathaway and Clarkson—and boom! Both their characters bite the dust. Literally in one...
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The Family Stone vs. One Day (spoilers-like you...
We watch a lot of rom-coms. From ‘It Happened One Night’ (the GOAT) and ‘The Philadelphia Story’ at the sublime end, to the latest POS with that guy from that show and that girl who used to be on that other show, on the other, we see most of them. They can be great; witty and still have something to say about love and gender and all our nonsense and baggage. Or they star...
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MLB.tv and MLB At-Bat 2012
The best gets better:
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The Third Shift: evansknight: sometimes, because... →
evansknight:
sometimes, because my father is an extremely intelligent human being, i attempt to have political conversations with him. this happens because i forget that he is irrationally conservative. it seems like every time we end up arguing (which is 80% of the time), he falls back on…
Colin is wise. All wars are economic.
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60 Minutes of Purgatory
Remember when Arkansas could shoot and played tenacious defense? Damn, Hogs, FIX YO GAME.
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FIGJAM
I get why Nantz, Miller, and the rest of the golf people at CBS, NBC, and tWWL kiss Mickelson’s ass, but how can the gallerys not see what an act this guy puts on?
Maybe I’m just cynical, but he’s about as genuine as the late Kim Jong-Il’s game.
I’m like a two year old: I managed to shower, shave, and dress myself! Ok, a hirsute 2 year old. But still, progress.
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Jayhawkmarley asked about reading
There’s no reading list because I’m already behind on my students’ work. I’ll be reading essays as much as I can, and teaching again starting this week.
I can rest more on spring break in March.
The fugitive
On AMC right now.
The Big Dog is always right!
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cwj asked: Please rank the pain levels of the following events in order of most to least painful: shoulder surgery, back surgery, comp grading, lit grading, Super Bowl XLVI, Super Bowl XLII, 2003 ALCS, 1986 World Series, 2000 Presidential Election, 2004 Presidential Election
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Recovery Day 2
I haven’t showered yet since the surgery, but that’s doctor’s orders. Taking the dressing off later today.
Pain levels are modulating, but generally coming down.
Thanks again for all the kind words.
“[Contraception is] not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual...”
– Rick Santorum
Bypass surgery is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the medical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Human flight is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the mechanical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Democracy is...
Wow. Pain.
The surgery went well, but my labrum was shredded, so there are 7 anchors in now.
Lot of pain.
Thanks for all the kind words.
Out of surgery.
Seems to have gone well.
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A Poem for Valentine's Day
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did
Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same sun moon stars rain
children guessed (but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him...
Sick
Have to be at the hospital at 6:30 tomorrow morning. And of course I came down with a cold yesterday.
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"Is there a Ralph's nearby?"
Not, but we have a Publix right around the corner.
Not kidding at all. AT ALL.
Funerals are insanely expensive. Not for me. No casket, no urn, no headstone, nothing. Take what’s left of me, light some cigars, drink some Sams, and open up the Folger’s can and toss me in the Atlantic from Fisherman’s Beach on Nantucket. DONE.