April 2012
5 posts
March 2012
1 post
What’s Behind the Conservative Attack on Women? :... →
February 2012
3 posts
How I found out Whitney died
[I haven't looked at a computer all afternoon and am arriving at a party at 10 pm. Dan is standing outside the building having a cigarette. I am trying to find the doorbell.]
Dan: RIP Whitney.
Me [having not heard him]: What?
Dan: RIP Whitney.
Me [I'm deaf]: I'm sorry, what?
Dan: I said RIP--
Me: Oh, did it get cancelled?
Dan: No, Whitney Houston's dead.
Me: What?
Dan: WHITNEY HOUSTO--
Me: No, I heard you, just... what? Like, conceptually. Are you kidding?
Dan: No she died.
Me [still scanning the wall for the right doorbell]: And you're being honest? She's dead right now. Are we having a life moment? Is this how I find out Whitney Houston died?
Dan: Yeah, I guess.
[I get buzzed in.]
Me: Okay, I'll see you inside.
January 2012
6 posts
Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet... →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning...”
– William H Murray (via sealove)
Virgin CEO Richard Branson calls for an end to the... →
fewdull:
“Just as prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States in the 1920s, the war on drugs has failed globally. Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and all we have to show for it is increased drug use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds and dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted, and thriving crime syndicates.”
November 2011
9 posts
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via aslanforpresident)
David Simon's spectacular counteroffer to the US... →
The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I’ve spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of The Wire if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition.
help me help somebody. →
I recently got involved with a family who face deportation under really unfair circumstances. Some friends and I organized a fundraiser in October which was quite successful but we still need to raise a bit more money to help them pay legal fees.
They are a family of five - mom, dad, and three boys between the ages of 9 and 17. The family is pretty amazing and they want to be able to stay in...
October 2011
3 posts
HelloGiggles – That’s Ridiculous. Period. →
September 2011
3 posts
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August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
3 posts
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June 2011
4 posts
Smurf Village: Spanish Town, Juzcar, Painted Blue... →
May 2011
6 posts
Shuttle astronauts install $2-billion magnet on... →
The instrument – which has a three-foot magnet at its core – is the most expensive piece of equipment at the orbiting lab and certainly the most prominent scientific device. It will search for antimatter and dark matter for the rest of the life of the space station.
April 2011
17 posts
Switzerland: Smelly corpse flower draws thousands →
Thousands of people are flocking to the northern Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time. The amorphophallus titanum - known as corpse flower because it exudes a smell of rotting flesh - is the first to blossom in Switzerland in 75 years.
