February 2012
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Bengay
Does Bengay actually do anything? Is this tingling supposed to be pain relieving?
How Scalia Helped Obama Defend The Birth Control... →
Someone I went to high school with has a local show where he reviews restaurants?????
I should have been reading the blogs of other ex-evangelicals forever ago. Been thinking a lot lately that I should probably see a person about my childhood. Reading about the experiences of others hasn’t convinced me that I should see someone necessarily, but it has done a lot to make me feel less isolated.
The Incredible Shrinking Liz Lemon: From Woman To... →
Yeah, this sums up most of my problems with the latest season of 30 Rock.
“It was never just about getting a name wrong. It’s that even when you take...”
– Chuck Jordan, commenting on the continuing “Saddest Booth Babe” Saga. (via DaringFireball)
Linked with the caveat that Jordan’s defense of the use “bint” is more than a little problematic. You don’t get to use slurs simply because they’re old and more...
The Very Impressive Future
Instead of buying a physical copy of the Adventure Time comic, I decided to buy it digitally. I read the comic on my way home from work on my phone. I get home, boot up my iPad and the comic reader app has already been installed automatically. Couple taps and the comic downloads again onto the iPad like no big deal.
Five years ago, I was excited about buying a cellphone that could send text...
“Everyone deserves decent food, produced sustainably, locally, and without...”
– Rick Kelley, writing for Vegansaurus. Vegansaurus!: Guest post: Food accessibility is a vegan issue
Here, here. Vegans are well positioned to make a strong push for food accessibility and I believe that any vegan worth their nutritional yeast should consider it one of their primary issues. Tofu...
Jeff Bezos' Racist, Pro-Life, Anti-Evolution,... →
I guess this is what to expect when you crowd source results. From the article:
For example, while Apple recently took some heat for Siri’s inability to locate Planned Parenthood clinics, when asked “Is abortion wrong?”, Iris/ChaCha goes full Bible on the questioner:
Yes, abortion is wrong. The Lord has said, “You shall not murder,” (Exodus 20:13). The...
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My boss is making me listen to the Lana Del Rey album because he loves it. He is shocked that I haven’t already heard it. In his mind, I am Lana Del Rey’s target audience.
When I started this job five years ago, my first assigned task was to sit and watch all of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet.
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In 2008, Oasis extended an offer for The Pillows to play as the opening act at their concert in Japan, but the Pillows’ frontman, Sawao Yamanaka, refused their offer. In a January interview for Japanzine, Yamanaka joked that he “turned down the offer in order to have a fun story to tell”.
The Pillows are the greatest band.
“Swap meet Sally
Trampstamp Cat
Mousewife to Mombshell in the
Time it took...”
– David Lee Roth in Van Halen’s Tattoo.
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hidden-midden replied to your photo: Went and got coffee (Taken with instagram) Yay, Roast Co.! I like their Brown Sugar Kitchen blend the best.
Kate is also a huge fan of that! But it’s too fruity for me. I like my coffee to be really grim.
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Old family friend from church posts something about how people should have to take drug tests before they can get a welfare check. Her post is followed by several people in the comments agreeing. So I jump in with some Bible quotes:
We’ll see how this goes.
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Watch“I was never taught that knowledge.”
