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‘08 election losers

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:22:45 -0400

‘08 election losers

Baking 875335416859 muffins with mom

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:02:20 -0400

Baking 875335416859 muffins with mom

Blackberry Curve

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:56:03 -0400

I just got a new BB and I’ve discovered that it will not allow me to post to tumblr. The ‘Post’ button doesn’t even render on the screen. Help me! Thanks in advance. Asprettyasasong@gmail.com

zachattack: These are my insides! If you look closely, there...

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:48:03 -0400

zachattack:

These are my insides! If you look closely, there are areas circled in my neck that indicate cancer! Pretty neat!

Z, I can see your cancer!

"We live in a time when our government is telling us some pretty profound lies. And then James Frey..."

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:13:20 -0400

“We live in a time when our government is telling us some pretty profound lies. And then James Frey writes a book and it turns out some of it’s not true. No one asked for their vote back, but everyone wanted back the money they’d spent on that book. We’re in the shadow of huge lies and getting angry about the small ones.”

- David Sedaris. (via keepinganotebook) (via claudia)

"I guess, the difference in my mind is, if you knew the perils, but the conversation that you had..."

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:50:55 -0400

“I guess, the difference in my mind is, if you knew the perils, but the conversation that you had with the public painted a rosier picture, how is that not deception? What it sounds like for me is, the fact that you seemed to know all the risks takes this from manslaughter to homicide.”

- Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, talking to former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith about what the Bush Administration did and did not discuss with the public in the run-up to the Iraq War (via julyshewillfly) (via claudia)

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:49:57 -0400

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

- Jonathon Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (via thumbwrestlinginbaltimore) (via snickerdoodle)

"The tradition has always been that when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the..."

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:47:11 -0400

“The tradition has always been that when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water’s edge. President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on its head: for this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water’s edge, no matter the seriousness and gravity of the occasion. Does the president have no shame?”

- House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel, on perhaps the most disgusting example of public foreign policy George Bush has ever displayed, coming at the 60th Anniversary of Israel’s independence, to Israel’s Knesset:

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Embarrassing day to be American.
(via trappedintime)

ngoc: Bobby Kennedy’s Funeral Train. Unbearably poignant. Dad...

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:24:23 -0400

ngoc:

Bobby Kennedy’s Funeral Train. Unbearably poignant. Dad and I once had a long chat about RFK and his ability to connect with people. He was not a perfect man, but he had a sense of moral purpose. His decision to speak in Indianopolis at a predominantly black neighborhood immediately after Martin Luther King’s assassination, even after being told by the Chief of Police that he wouldn’t be able to provide protection, was incredibly courageous. RFK refused the speech prepared by his press secretary and speechwriter and spoke from the heart, invoking his own experience with his brother’s assassination, the only time he ever spoke about the subject. He quoted the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus and asked for unity between blacks and whites. Indianapolis was calm that night while riots went on in other major American cities. It’s been almost 40 years since his death, and I am moved to tears watching this video.

travors: Famous Failures This video mentions well known people...

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:15:22 -0400

travors:

Famous Failures
This video mentions well known people who had failed, but kept pressing on until they became successful.

There’s probably a couple of misquotes in there but it’s interesting none the less.

"We live in this weird time, this kind of age of prohibitions. Where in many areas of our life we..."

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:21 -0400

“We live in this weird time, this kind of age of prohibitions. Where in many areas of our life we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law. And that’s what we’re doing to our kids. They live life knowing they live it against the law. That realization is extraordinarily corrupting. In a democracy we ought to be able to do better, do better at least for them, if not for opening business.”

- Larry Lessing’s TED talk, “How Creativity Is Being Strangled By The Law”. (thanks to suwaowalog for posting the video) (via trappedintime)

zetahydrae: Last night’s Colbert Report featured a priceless...

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:46:33 -0400

zetahydrae:

Last night’s Colbert Report featured a priceless parody of Billsplosion. Props to Stephen for usage of the term “internets.”

obama08: It’s about time...!

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:40:17 -0400

obama08:

It’s about time...!

"You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re..."

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:19:53 -0400

“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

- some of the last lines of breakfast at tiffany’s.

kind of the antithesis of the quote from marguerite fields’ essay.
(via missbrightside) (via jeralyndwile)

"I think we should gradually transform a quarter of our military into the best disaster response team..."

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:14:11 -0400

“I think we should gradually transform a quarter of our military into the best disaster response team ever assembled. It think that could do a lot more for our national security than, say, the Iraq War.”

- Squashed. That’s a really good idea, especially if it comes with a quarter of our military’s budget. (via marco)

"I think we should gradually transform a quarter of our military into the best disaster response team..."

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:18 -0400

lfarm: 86 years and kickin’. What a sexy beast!

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:31:42 -0400

lfarm:

86 years and kickin’. What a sexy beast!

"I do not think the President of the United States should be a liar, and believe that the..."

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:28:35 -0400

“I do not think the President of the United States should be a liar, and believe that the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens agree with me. For security reasons, the whole truth cannot always be revealed, but it is quite obvious that lies are seldom made to protect our nation. Almost invariably, the political fortunes of the prevaricator are at stake.”

- Jimmy Carter (via azspot)

lindsaycampbell: AMAZING. Thanks, first person who shared...

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:55:57 -0400

lindsaycampbell:

AMAZING. Thanks, first person who shared this.

rocketboom:

I completely agree with all of the sentiment below.

jakoblodwick:

fat:

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in a long time. (via sean)

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in a long time.

"Everyone has this strange archiving addiction now. …To me, a gig isn’t supposed to be for posterity...."

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:17:14 -0400

“Everyone has this strange archiving addiction now. …To me, a gig isn’t supposed to be for posterity. It’s supposed to be a bunch of people tossed together in a room, making a mood, and then it’s over. You can’t see the world through a viewfinder.”

- Feist, in an article for the Dallas Morning News (via seagull) (via somethingchanged)