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Listen to 'Shut Up, Weirdo' for July 29, 2011 →
shutupweirdo:
Topic: Fiction Comes Alive
How to Say 'My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels' in... →
“My mom always said … If you don’t have anything nice to say, you...”
– Stephen Colbert, on last night’s show
Bike slowly →
As a general rule, the propensity of non-bicyclists to give biking a try is inversely proportional to the average velocity of the bikers they see on the street. If you live in a city where women in wedge heels are steering their old steel bikes around their daily errand route, there’s really nothing intimidating or scary about the prospect of getting on a bike yourself. If it’s all hipsters on...
I won't lie. I've drank a hell of a lot of orange...
“I believe the speaker would like to avoid default, but he has a funny way of...”
– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, on House Speaker John Boehner and the debt ceiling impasse. (via officialssay)
Emergency team of 8th-grade civics teachers... →
Jack's Gefilte Fish Project, Mentioned in Passing... →
What's the point of anything?
Glenn Beck: Young Norway victims like 'Hitler... →
msnbc:
“There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever,” Beck said on his radio show Monday, which is broadcast on more than 400 stations.
Finally, someone willing to stand up against the monolithic forces of Big Theme Camp. Godspeed, Glenn Beck. May you prevail so that young people need never discuss or consider politics without your...
Soup: It's not so funny now, is it? →
jayrosen:
Ron Suskind in the New York Times, October 17, 2004
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the…
The troubling thing is, a lot of “respectable” conservatives (e.g., George Will)...
trixietreats:
New Order “Crystal”
(via...
and now for something completely unnecessary...:... →
anfscu:
I spent a quiet evening at home a while back watching the 1987 Sylvester Stallone arm wrestling movie, “Over the Top.” Don’t be jealous—it’s not a good look for you. Anyway, it is utterly ridiculous that this film is the only living document of the Sylvester Stallone arm wrestling craze that…
suicidewatch:
Modern Lovers “Government Center”
Listen to 'Shut Up, Weirdo' for July 22, 2011 →
shutupweirdo:
Topic: Fighting With Strangers
