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“It’s wrong to rate animals above human beings… When the legislation that...”
– Republican congressman Steve King (R-IA), apparently running for re-election on a pro-dogfighting platform. A lot of Republican congressmen won’t publicly admit that they love to watch physically and emotionally tormented game-dogs engaged in a brutal bloodsport forced to cripple, maim and...
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“…And that’s such a simple notion, but it’s something that I often share with...”
– —Nick Offerman (via calamityjon)(via natepatrin)
dcpierson:
Someday you’re gonna look up from your phone and be 50.
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“Will McAvoy was telling a story about a death threat he received from an Internet commenter to his therapist and most of the episode was told in flashbacks from that therapy session.” “I don’t have a clear memory of West Wing (it’s been a few years), but there were at least two instances in that show where a therapist, Stanley Keyworth (Adam Arkin), played a significant role....
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“For the first time, researchers at Stanford University in California have used...”
– Wait a second— nerds used computers to fully stimulate a sexual organism? That’s the exact premise for the Anthony Michael Hall - John Hughes movie Weird Science. Are my taxpayer dollars going to fund Weird Science science science? Because if so, consider me delighted, as LeBrockology...
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WatchThe new Gumbel. I love what this show has turned into—I’m glad it’s the note that screenings end on. (Plus, Business and Oh Shit were both so good…)
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“But if you listened very carefully, you would have heard two words over and over...”
– Patton Oswalt’s keynote speech in Montreal.
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“Thieves stole a man’s penis while he slept, according to police. Fei Lin,...”
– Is “stole” really the best word for this story? I feel like there should be a better word— severed; chopped off; hacked; dismembered. Stole make it sounds like he should be checking area pawn shops. ”Penis thieves” sound like low-rent cat burglars, whereas...
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Putin's Religious War Against Pussy Riot →
newyorker:
The prosecution of the Pussy Riot women is more than an act of absurd injustice and cruelty; it is a sign that the Russian state is increasingly lashing out against those citizens it sees as overly modernized. Vladimir Putin has often said that modernization is the goal of his regime, but its policy is increasingly slipping toward something egregiously anti-modern, obscurantist, even...
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“Inside the front door of Sherman’s house was a sign saying, ‘Don’t answer the...”
– Prog rock star Daevid Allen, writing about Sherman Helmsley who has passed away today at the age of 74.
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“Herman K. Lamm, known as Baron Lamm, was a German American bank robber. He is...”
– Wikipedia. The section on his death is interesting: one getaway car blew a tire during a u-turn trying to get away from a vigilante barber with a shotgun; they jacked a second car that had a governor on that kept it to 35 mph, so they jacked a truck which had a bum radiator, so they jacked another...
“The posters in the games room scene are a gallery of mysteries. Is the ‘Ski...”
– This post originally appeared on the kdk12 blog, but I’m really glad to see it getting wider exposure. (via imathers)
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“I don’t want to suggest that eating less and exercising more is easy, and if...”
– Tom Spurgeon, “Comics Made Me Somewhat Less Fat” (via constellation-funk)
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WatchWow. This is the best— an ad for this summer’s Paralympics from Channel 4. (Youtube disabled embedding but link if you prefer Youtube).
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