February 2011
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“Also, I really think that shitting where you eat has gotten a bad rap. Pigs do...”
– The Hairpin is the best place on the internet.
January 2011
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“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...”
– CQ (via kateoplis)
Think about that for a while…
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WatchThis is thoroughly enjoyable. Twin Shadow’s 4AD sessions. That label does very very good things.
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“It’s a week before the biggest day of her life, and Anna Williams is...”
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the first paragraph of “the most e-mailed New York Times article ever,” by David Parker at The Awl. (Never miss an opportunity to razz Brand X.)
Crazily, we just read this piece as well. Like, seconds ago. It is basically perfect.
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“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on...”
– Mark Shields (via azspot)
Nicely said.
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Watchinothernews:
pantslessprogressive:
This is Lawrence O’Donnell’s interview with Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, to discuss the Tucson shooting and the influence of high-capacity clips.
The main question here from O’Donnell: “Don’t you wish Jared Loughner had a smaller capacity ammo clip when he went to Gabby Giffords event in Tucson?”
Thanks for getting to...
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“There were a lot of big films that didn’t get nominated. Nothing for Sex and the...”
– —our top 10 Ricky Gervais zingers from the Golden Globes (via flavorpill)
Merciless and awesome.
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Alec Baldwin's NPR pledge drive promos →
These are hilarious. God, Alec Baldwin you never cease to amaze/amuse me. “Hello this is Alec Baldwin, from television. You’ve heard of television, the dominant broadcast medium of our age.”
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Gail Collins, as always, says it best. →
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Today, the amazing thing about the reaction to the Giffords shooting is that virtually all the discussion about how to prevent a recurrence has been focusing on improving the tone of our political discourse. That would certainly be great. But you do not hear much about the fact that Jared Loughner came to Giffords’s sweet gathering with a semiautomatic weapon that he was able to buy...
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What Good is Wall Street? →
Since I’m about two months behind in my New Yorker issues, it took me a while to get around to this. After reading the Big Short, I mostly spent a lot of time thinking about what greedy assholes investment bankers are. This article takes the ideas in that book a step further — what is the value add of wall street brokerages really? They generate revenue for themselves, but are they...
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