January 2010
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On Being a Grammar Douche →
If you’re an English nerd, read this! It’s absolutely hilarious!
December 2009
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Boys get cool stuff, girls get pink stuff →
“Someone somewhere observed that when it came to technology, there was a stereotype that men were the engineers and designers and women were the consumers and users,” she writes. “Well, that’s essentially what Toys R Us told me.” The top results for boy techie-builders were “13 building/engineering games (like Lego and KNEX), 3 ipod accessories, 4 portable DVD...
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Welcome to the fashion funhouse →
“The message is clear: High fashion has no size limit,” writes Ben Barry, CEO of an eponymous Toronto modeling agency that specializes in diverse body types, in a gushing blog post about V magazine’s upcoming “One Size Fits All” spread. The spread features size 2 model Jacquelyn Jablonski and size 12ish model Crystal Renn in matching outfits “by high-fashion...
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One of the biggest risks is being too cautious.
– David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk (seriously) at Cambridge University
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The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises →
funeral:somethingintellectual:studentloansforbeermoney:
“PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.”
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Last night, I watched Rent at CSULB. It has reignited my girl crush on Rosario Dawson.
yeah.
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Nan Goldin
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Dumbing down the first lady | Michelle Obama... →
A year and a half after her approval rating hit a low of 44 percent, Michelle Obama is now enjoying the “overall favorable” opinion of many more Americans — 68 percent, according to a recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll. Even 67 percent of Republican women gave the first lady a thumbs-up in an April Pew poll. Lynn Sweet at Politics Daily says the reason for...
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Fashion isn’t an obviously brainy thing to write about — it is a fairly hermetic...
– Cintra Wilson
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A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has...
– New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via pianississimo)
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Wikipedia has helped me find religion (I'll...
Ignosticism
Ignosticism, or igtheism, is the theological position that every other theological position (including agnosticism) assumes too much about the concept of God and many other theological concepts. It can be defined as encompassing two related views about the existence of God: (1) The view that a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can...
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Is My Kids Making Me Not Smart? →
The common misconception of childless, alcohol-imbibing party guests and cyber-ether baby-haters alike is that parents blabber constantly out of some arrogance or indulgent desire to show off their great kids and their perfect parenthood. Nothing could be further from the truth. We parents have so little now; the children have taken so much. We just have nothing left to say. We sometimes hear...
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List of Free Foreign Language Lessons →
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It’s a bit mad, isn’t it? It feels like it’s happened all of a...
– Christopher Kane
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