January 2011
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Fake Justin Beiber support of Lower Manhattan...
Wonkette:
Remember when those people opposed to the “Ground Zero Mosk” embarrassed our country over the summer, and then the international news media moved on? They didn’t, apparently, and now they have come to the next front in their epic battle to bring xenophobia to New York City: finding famous people who supported the right of Muslims to have that community center built, and boycotting...
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God's little rabbits: Religious people...
Scientific American:
What’s that famous quote, by Edna St. Vincent Millay? Oh, yes: “I love humanity but I hate people.” It’s a sentiment that captures my normal misanthropically tinged type of humanitarianism well, but it roars apropos on some particular occasions. For example, making conversation at the pizza shop in my small village in Northern Ireland one recent evening, the...
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“What language do they speak in Estonia? Estonian? Is that a thing? Wikipedia...”
– From my office. Conversations/soliloquies like this happen a lot.
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Poll: Baby Boomers Fear Outliving Medicare
CBS News:
AP-GfK Poll Finds That Baby Boomers Think That They Won’t Be Able to Rely on Giant Health Insurance Plan Through Retirement
(AP) WASHINGTON - The first baby boomers will be old enough to qualify for Medicare Jan. 1, and many fear the program’s obituary will be written before their own. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that baby boomers believe by a ratio of 2-to-1...
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madillac asked: Okay KIND OF SPOILERS YA'LL for people who haven't seen "Inception." Item one: Is Limbo just the same for everybody? Say I "died" during a dream while under an incredibly deep sleep and ended up in this desert of unlimited subconscious. It would be my own personal desert, right? Cobb and Adriadne and Saito and Fischer all end up the same Limbo because they're...
madillac asked: Okay KIND OF SPOILERS YA'LL for people who haven't seen "Inception." Item one: Is Limbo just the same for everybody? Say I "died" during a dream while under an incredibly deep sleep and ended up in this desert of unlimited subconscious. It would be my own personal desert, right? Cobb and Adriadne and Saito and Fischer all end up the same Limbo because they're...
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“In search of the truth about the new sweets, I even went to the White House,...”
– SWEET REVOLUTION
The power of the pastry chef.
[the New Yorker]
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The science and imagination behind modern dessert →
canisfamiliaris:
Pastry is the closest that a human being can get to creating a new food. A savory chef will look at puff pastry not as a combination of ingredients but as an ingredient in itself. Pastry is infinitely exciting, because it’s less about showing the greatness of nature, and more about transmitting taste and flavor. Desserts are naturally denatured food.” He looked at me sternly....
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Watchrudeboyadams:
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CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
FOREVER REBLOG.
i just sat here for 30 minutes with this
i just died like 232 times. looooove
AMAZING
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Brian Williams just said "fairy dog parent."
What.
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