December 2009
How's the book?
sawyouonthel:
I’ve been watching you for the last three weeks on the L.
You haven’t moved in your book.
Proust my ass.
The 12 Weirdest Right-Wing Conspiracies Of 2009 →
Some wingnuts think Bill Ayers wrote Dreams From My Father? I hadn’t heard that one before.
So You Know Who to Blame: The World's Top 10... →
(via newsweek)
“Rush Limbaugh was taken to the same hospital President Obama was born in.. I...”
– thepoliticalpartygirl via Sergio Tovar (via brooklynmutt) (via howidisappear) (via ericmortensen)
“[I]t is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more focused on...”
– White House Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer (via notthatkindagay) (via apsies) (via mikehudack)
Films Selected to the 2009 National Film Registry... →
1) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 2) The Exiles (1961) 3) Heroes All (1920) 4) Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972) 5) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) 6) Jezebel (1938) 7) The Jungle (1967) 8) The Lead Shoes (1949) 9) Little Nemo (1911) 10) Mabel’s Blunder (1914) 11) The Mark of Zorro (1940) 12) Mrs. Miniver (1942) 13) The Muppet Movie (1979) 14) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 15) Pillow Talk (1959) 16)...
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Shut down the borders to radicalized rich...
ericmortensen:
suddenly:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said there should have been swift action after a prominent Nigerian alleged that his son was becoming radicalized.
“It seems to me that when this happens, the person should go automatically on the no-fly list,” she said. “I’d rather, in the interest of protecting people,...
Robert Pattinson Replaces Tobey Maguire in...
dyfl:
To all on my dashboard who were reblogging this: did you actually click the link? It’s an April Fool’s joke from eight months ago. Go back about your business. Tobey Maguire is still theoretically in the next movie, for what that’s even worth.
Gettin’ my Maura Johnston fact-check on. The internet: If a tree falls in the forest, and somebody just tells you about it, did that tree fall?
...
After much thought and serious deliberation I've...
indierawk:
(via corcarpemei)
Robert Pattinson Replaces Tobey Maguire in...
If you thought the 3rd Spider-Man was bad (it was), just wait for the fourth.
pwnator:
wakocytosis:
mountainsofwater:
cerealkillermashmurderer:
ohmysiomai:
hellafellafoool:
amplifiedwhispers:
louisdaniele:
The news dropped like a bombshell early this morning that Sony Pictures has signed Robert Pattinson (Twilight) to replace Tobey Maguire in the titular role in Spider-Man 4.
In...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
grooms (1)
The Antlers (1)
Serica Ux (1)
limbs (1)
Pow Wow! (1)
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“In many photographs and videos in June, when the regime first cracked down, many...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Something remarkable is happening in Iran. Click through and watch the video.
(via ericmortensen)
Ridiculous Website Startup and/or Next Google...
dyfl:
Enter a zip code, a start time, a list of movies you want to see, and the distance you’re willing to travel, and the site spits out your best options for non-overlapping three or four-film marathons of showtimes, including travel times between theatres.
Yes, please.
Ridiculous Website Startup and/or Next Google...
dyfl:
Enter a zip code, a start time, a list of movies you want to see, and the distance you’re willing to travel, and the site spits out your best options for non-overlapping three or four-film marathons of showtimes, including travel times between theatres.
Yes, please.
Ridiculous Website Startup and/or Next Google...
dyfl:
Enter a zip code, a start time, a list of movies you want to see, and the distance you’re willing to travel, and the site spits out your best options for non-overlapping three or four-film marathons of showtimes, including travel times between theatres.
Yes, please.
“Al-Qa’ida is finding it difficult to recruit young people. And, interestingly,...”
– Dr. Sally Leivesley, CEO of international risk management firm NewRisk Limited, which specializes in counterterrorism strategies. (via spiegelman) (via ericmortensen)
“Over the past decade, there have been, by my count, six attempted terrorist...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror
If you take 9/11 out of the picture, which is when we got serious about this stuff, the U.S. has a near perfect record. Two attempts out of 16,553,385 filghts, both failures.
The system works.
(via ericmortensen)
“I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only...”
– Security expert Bruce Schneier (via nickdouglas)
I often buy one way tickets for last minute travel...
winstonwolfe:
But a person on a Govt. watch list for TWO YEARS, & whose own father notified the authorities six months ago about his behavior, can get on a plane without extra precautions thus allowing him to be in possession of an explosive device?
“It is also a mistake to rate Americans as less tolerant because they are...”
– Going to America: A Ponzi scheme that works | The Economist (via evangotlib) (via ericmortensen)
“In November’s election, 46 percent of the voters identified themselves as white,...”
– Minority Voters Were a Majority in New York Election - NYTimes.com (via mikehudack)
“This is for my friend Ted Kennedy. Aye!”
– Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia, casting his vote for health care overhaul. (via savingpaper) (via banalitycheck) (via apsies) (via mikehudack)
