November 2009
October 2009
WatchClassic.
“If Dick Cheney can support marriage, so can every Senator. So can every...”
– Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), speaking at a fundraising dinner in support of gay marriage. Watch here. (via ahulse)
<3 Chuckles.
(via notthatkindagay)
“I sometimes think that we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in...”
– Bram Stoker, Dracula (via kindacarsick)
Return of the King, condensed parody version →
notemily:
ROHIRRIM CAMP, LATER EOWYN: I love you. ARAGORN: Me? What? Oh. Um…listen, Ellen… EOWYN: Eowyn. ARAGORN: Right, Eowyn. You’re a fine-looking woman, and I’m sure somebody will say to you someday, “Erin -“ EOWYN: *Eowyn*. ARAGORN: “Eowyn…you’re the only woman for me. Be my wife.” EOWYN: But it won’t be you. ARAGORN: Exactly! It won’t be me. I’m glad we understand each other. Well kiddo,...
Stop Means Stop: How do we get bikers to obey... →
notthatkindagay:
pantsblog:
A nice look at urban planning and law enforcement techniques used to encourage bicycle usage. Here’s a neat little snippet:
Enter the Idaho stop-sign law. The rule, passed by the Idaho state legislature in 1982 and updated in 2005, essentially allows bikers to treat stop signs as yield signs. If a biker slows down and sees no cars coming, he or she can roll...
Hey guy walking past the office... you do realize...
“But perhaps the most intriguing lesson from Hawaii has to do with costs. This is...”
– In Hawaii’s Health System, Lessons for Lawmakers - NYTimes.com
Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from... →
No really… there are scientists that are coming to the conclusion “that observing the Higgs boson would be such an abhorrent event that the future is actually trying to prevent it from happening”
(roads2roam:notthatkindagay:awesome-everyday)
“Dude, I would hump Conan for a cracker.”
– My friend Reagan. Good to know… Good to know.
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this...
notemily:
think4yourself: anotherdamnartist: lovelywings:
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword...
“You didn’t even send your own camera crew? You have a Washington bureau. Tell...”
– The Daily Show’s JON STEWART, snarking on Fox News’s non-coverage of this past weekend’s gay rights rally in Washington, D.C. Fox had taken a live feed of ABC News’s camera shot instead of sending even a satellite truck. (via inothernews)
Freud for Trekkies:
ID: Kirk EGO: Spock SUPEREGO: McCoy
(Sometimes my Psych class is super awesome)
“The face that launched a million releases. The installer that crashed a million...”
– Weird Facebook ad copy, or weirdest Facebook ad copy?
“I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. | Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address | 12-10-64 (via retropolitics)
In Defense of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize →
notthatkindagay:
newsweek:
[W]hen you consider the fact that Obama was nominated before he had even done anything as president, you certainly could see it as an extension of Europe’s middle finger to his predecessor. But you could also see it as an award not for his concrete policy successes, but for his personal achievement to be elected the first African-American president, the child of an...
“The Nobel Committee gave South African Bishop Desmond Tutu the Nobel Peace Prize...”
– Robert Naiman (via retropolitics) (via mikehudack) (via soupsoup)
“According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who...”
– Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via robot-heart-politics)
Scalia Defends Cross On Public Land, Claims It... →
robot-heart-politics:
lenorebeadsman:
The case actually started because a resident wanted to build a Buddhist shrine and the request was denied. The cross represents everyone!
Is that sarcasm?
“It’s clear Oslo beats Copenhagen any day of the week.”
– Rahm Emanuel, After the peace prize was awarded to the president… he jokingly made reference to last week’s awarding of Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics — which some viewed as a snub to the United States after Obama went to Copenhagen, Denmark to make a pitch for Chicago. (via rillawafers) (via...
yeah, pelosi!
robot-heart-politics:
champagnecandy:amberlrhea:abbyjean:
via think progress, Earlier this week, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) put out a press release criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) comments on Afghanistan, saying that Gen. Stanley McChrystal should “put her in her place.” Today, Pelosi responded during her weekly briefing:
It’s really sad that...
“Two key White House aides were both convinced they were being punked when they...”
– Obama Nobel Peace Prize Reaction
“The question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to...”
– In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy - NYTimes.com
“Most news organizations, in my experience, do not have to qualify the word...”
– Ezra Klein - The Fox Business Model (via ryking) (via soupsoup)