December 2010
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Wikileaks cables reveal China 'ready to abandon... →
These sure are interesting times. Still not sure if that’s a blessing or a curse.
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"Dagestani Weddings Are Serious Business" →
A classified diplomatic dispatch released by wikileaks describing the intense political intrigue and intense cultural traditions of North Caucasian Russia. Definitely worth reading the entire telegram.
“First Gadzhi joined them and then Ramzan, who danced clumsily with his gold-plated automatic stuck down in the back of his jeans (a houseguest later pointed out that the gold housing...
branding - v. (brænd - iŋ)
when you associate a product with emotional responses instead of rational decisions. This really took off when the ad business realized you could sell more things by making people think they satisfied an amorphous personal desire than the desire the product actually fulfilled (for instance, a stick of gum giving you sex with a lady instead of a brief experience of minty taste).
In this...
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In Defense of John and Rose: A Homestuck Treatise →
flipflopflyball:
I’m fairly sure it says something depressing about our language and society when the best people can come up with for their website’s name is Fuck Yeah [Something].
To be fair, it’s a simple format that immediately tells you what the website is about (and only about) [Something]. Every second counts on the internet.
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Matt Taibbi: Courts Helping Banks Screw Over... →
It turns out that underneath that little iceberg tip of exposed evidence lies a fraud so gigantic that it literally cannot be contemplated by our leaders, for fear of admitting that our entire financial system is corrupted to its core — with our great banks and even our government coffers backed not by real wealth but by vast landfills of deceptively generated and essentially worthless ...
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A few SF Giants will cash in on endorsements →
findtheswagger:
So I’m reading this article and skimming over the bits about how the World Series had low ratings because it didn’t have the Yankees in it (all of those parts sounds like the adults talking in Peanuts cartoons to me, frankly), and then I get to this part:
Matt Cain had one of the best postseasons in baseball history, but would be more marketable if he pitched in a bigger...
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“I don’t think it would be a big issue. I really don’t at all…It’s just time....”
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Eric Chavez: “‘It’s Time’ to Accept Gay Athletes.” (via baseballbitch)
I love you, you broken man, you.
(via pocketfulofposey)
:D - Hooray for an athlete who finally addresses the silent homophobia in baseball!
>:( - Boo for him doing it only after it’s fairly obvious that he...
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Poor People (Me, You and Probably Everyone You... →
And people think repealing tax cuts that only benefit the wealthiest 3% is class warfare? Class warfare is already being waged. Guess who is winning. (Not you.)
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http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/ →
I dislike political proselytizing, but is this really the best we can expect out of the party that is supposed to represent the American Left? Really? People actually think our president and his administration are too liberal, even socialist? I understand that compromises must be made in order to achieve the nirvana of bipartisanship, but:
-the rampant diminishing of civil liberties
-the blatant...
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