May 2012
14 posts
“During an interview with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the Opie and...”
– Louis C.K. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“It is interesting … to consider where one would go in Los Angeles to have...”
– Reading L.A.: David Brodsly’s ‘L.A. Freeway’ - latimes.com
“In a primer on nonviolent protest, “Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle,”...”
– Protesters in Moscow Try New Tactics to Avoid Arrests - NYTimes.com
“In another famous case, a 9-year-old boy named Jeffrey Bailey pushed a toddler...”
– Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? - NYTimes.com
“A bi-product of the development of bipedalism is that our hips became narrow,...”
– Why are humans so bad at childbirth? : askscience
“A paragraph from Donald Kaufman’s script “The Three” is shown...”
– Adaptation. (2002) - Trivia - IMDb
“Trier’s initial inspiration for the film came from a depressive episode he...”
– Melancholia (2011 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Mr. Lugar — who may be best known for his 1990s effort, along with Sam Nunn, a...”
– Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana - NYTimes.com
I fucking hate cooperation and collegiality. Twin sons of Satan.
“Researchers have found that drinks made with diet cola are more likely to...”
– Drinking hand sanitizer: Do different forms of alcohol get you drunk in different ways? - Slate Magazine
April 2012
58 posts
“If one half of a couple is not interested in broadcasting the details of a...”
– For Couples, New Source of Online Friction - NYTimes.com
No, NYT, they are not. These lifestyle trend stories are so dumb.
“On most modern CDs the music is squashed into the top 5 dB of a medium that...”
– The Smart Set: The Death of the Monoculture - August 13, 2008
“Lenin was a mushroom (Russian: Ленин — гриб) was a televised hoax by musician...”
– Lenin was a mushroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A MAMMAL CANNOT BE A PLANT
“In the final years of the Soviet Union, there were two laboratories working on...”
– Is Moscow Developing Super Duper Secret Mega Weapons? - TIME
WHAAAAT
“God-Building was an idea proposed by some prominent Marxists of the Soviet...”
– God-Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение) is the artistic technique of...”
– Defamiliarization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In the summer, irrigation canals sweated a blurry fretwork across the green...”
– Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
“In the so-called Ogden memo of 2009, the Justice Department advised its lawyers...”
– Marijuana laws: Up in smoke | The Economist
This explains a lot about the current conflict.
“the satirist depends on shame, and everyone knows that our culture has become...”
– Jon Stewart
“Wherever most kids survive to adulthood, women stop having so many. That is the...”
– Boing Boing
Oh okay, I always wondered why population projections showed the numbers topping out…I kind of just figured we’d keep on multiplying until there’s no shoulder room left.
“The “war on women” started swallowing its tail on April 5, when Al Hunt asked...”
– Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney: The birth, adolescence, and death of the Democrats’ “war on women” talking point. - Slate Magazine
“A term used in popular psychology is “Pan American (or Pan Am)...”
– Pan American World Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hate these.
