July 2010
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Where are you going next? Is your boy going too?...
Immediately next, I’m going home to Tazewell. I don’t know ultimately for how long, because we don’t have a real plan for what’s next yet. Yes, my boy is coming, too.
The short lease is a result of mutual convenience—we needed a place in Lex definitely for the summer and the landlord wanted the property occupied until the fall when he could get a longer lease with a...
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How much longer will you be living in Lexington?
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“You can insult us all you want about television ratings, Mr. O’Reilly, and...”
– Rachel Maddow
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Oh my god, he really is like Stephen Colbert. “The market has spoken, more people watch my show, therefore I am right!”
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Dear Everyman,
stfuconservatives:
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When we complain about men raping, abusing, harassing, and refusing us our human rights, and you come back angrily with “But some men aren’t like that! How dare you imply that I might be like that.” Do you not think that the problem might come from the very fact that you are angry at us for complaining, rather than angry at your fellow boys and men for this...
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WTF did they do to the opening credits for season...
Bad call, TV-designer-guys.
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As of next week, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans... →
inothernews:
I guarantee it.
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One of my favorite jokes of all time, via my...
A very gentle Southern lady was driving across the Savannah River Bridge in Georgia one day. As she neared the top of the bridge, she noticed a young man fixing to jump. She stopped her car, rolled down the window and said, “Please don’t jump. Think of your dear mother and father.”
He replied, “Mom and Dad are both dead; I’m going to jump.”
She said,...
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The argument for aboriginal whaling by the actual indigenous people is seldom made on a basis of subsistence, but more often because hunting whales is a “cultural tradition of their people that must be preserved.”
This, of course, is utter bullshit.
It’s a tradition of Americans of European descent to commit genocide on indigenous people, but that doesn’t mean we ought to...
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“You have to walk upright to have booty. This is why we are the dominant species...”
– Christopher Moore, Fluke
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“Yes, he thought, escape would seem a priority.
He was pretty sure that if he...”
– Christopher Moore, Fluke
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You want to help? Pay attention. Caring about the condition of our oceans does not make you a psycho, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal, it just makes you smart.
The health of all life on this planet depends on the health of the oceans. It’s just good business.
So watch what you eat, and don’t eat fish that are being over-fished. And don’t pour the used oil from your oil...
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So I'm in the process of going through boxes to...
And working myself up to recycle my rehearsal copy of Where We’re Born feels akin to plotting to drown a kitten.
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When I was 12 years old my house burned. My parents and little sister died in the fire. One month ago, exactly 4 years after the fire, a young man came to visit me in the orphanage. It was the fireman that saved me. He had been looking for me all these years, because he wanted to adopt me. Now I have a father again. Roy, your LGMH.
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Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry →
The task of silking a spider starts with a small machine — designed centuries ago when the first attempts to silk spiders were begun — that holds the spider down.
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Things we've learned tonight
I am incapable of fake-yawning without actually yawning.
He can fake yawn til the cows come home.
When he yawns, fake or real, I compulsively yawn in response.
He can play this game for hours.
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I just want to point out that you are correct...
Thanks Sam; you’re like a White Knight of Vindication :)
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When you shower, where do you prefer the water to...
Back of head is good; I think the difference in our preferences is not unaltered by a difference in height, tho. But I’m definitely a face-away-from-the-showerhead showerer 90% of the time.
And I’m also a make-up-a-personal-statistic-on-the-spot person 86% of the time.
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Why can't I reply to replies?
This is ridiculous.
On a related note:
Thanks, Jess. I’m retarded and you’re observant.
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Office of Diversity and Inclusion? We have one of... →
What does it even do?
As a side note, I completely fail at copy/paste.
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I’m trying to decide how I feel about my about-to-be-married peers creating gift registries.
On one hand, it’s traditional. Part of the whole milestone/celebration/new step in their lives.
On the other hand… it seems really fucking ridiculous for a grown-ass 24 year old person to create a wishlist that includes things like soap dishes and kitchen towels (What, like you...
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On a barely related note, don't you think using...
It certainly does roll off the tongue, doesn’t it?
Ok, here’s the plan:
Expatriate, but declare that it’s for some moral high ground. Everyone will admire your iron will and firm sense of unwavering identity (never suspecting the Anglo-fanboy truth), and in time the people of your adopted land will love you as one of their own. You’re welcome. ;)
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What do you mean by 'giving up'? What were the...
“Giving up” = I quit trying. I let go of the delusion that everything would work out eventually. I finally acknowledged to myself that no amount of patience and waiting and excuse-giving and tongue-biting and tolerating would result in any change on the other side.
The issue with describing the problems is that when talking to anyone who wasn’t there and didn’t experience...
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New rules regarding proving PTSD and Veterans'... →
Just heard about this on NPR; Not sure why I feel such a sense of relief… but its good to know that some people won’t be getting the same runaround that they were.
Same news on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/09/veterans.ptsd/
