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Of all the disgusting things I've come to know about our government, this is the most disgusting
If it's true. But right now, I have no reason to believe otherwise. The Department of Homeland Security may have been ordering a nationwide police crackdown on Occupy protesters. And this is in the Guardian, not some crackpot blog. Maybe I'll have more to say about it later, but right now I'm speechless.
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Bandwagon (Man, this spam is gonna annoy Tim)
Your Top 3 Faith Match Profiles Are ( Read more... ) -
Some Issues
"I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo." ~ Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace -
You asked for it.
In my hunt for keep-me-alive-at-grad-school jobs, I found a posting for a staff writer/copy editor that asked for "a paragraph telling us what [sic] your favorite movie character is and why."
Now, this is a bit long for a paragraph, but I think I like it enough to keep. Let me know what you think.
"V, the protagonist of “V for Vendetta,” is my ( Read more... ) -
So I'm looking for an apartment in the Bronxville area...
And I found a listing that opens with this:
"Homely room in beguiling four bedroom house."
An unattractive room in a dishonest house? I think I'll pass...
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Lyrics
"Turn our weakness into might.
Turn our blindness into sight.
Turn our questions into answers just as obvious
As moonlight in the darkest, darkest night."
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Someone Call Mssrs. Merriam and Webster
As many of you are probably already aware, NewSouth Books has published an edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" with the N-word replaced with "slave."
Not only is this replacement inaccurate -- the character the epithet is leveled at most often is Jim, an escaped slave -- but it's also inane. Which is more offensive: to be "a black ( Read more... )
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