October 2011
22 posts
Did Zooey Deschanel Sing the Least Inspired... →
“Can we collectively agree to never, ever, ever desecrate the national anthem in the name of promoting bad television?”
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The movie doesn’t give Goslings character a name, so let’s just call him Drive....
– Real Fake Butter: THE IDES OF MARCH & DRIVE: GOSLING DOUBLE FEATURE!
The Big Business of Breast Cancer - Marie Claire →
Some $6 billion a year is committed to breast cancer research and awareness campaigns. Is it any wonder that the disease has become a gold mine for pink profiteers and old-fashioned hucksters?
Marie Claire! Who knew?
BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby... →
Yikes!
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Of a Kind: Weather Vain: Portland, Maine - 58 and... →
An outfit choice for, honestly, a much cooler day in Portland. Ladies, 58 degrees means real Mainahs would be in t-shirts, or at the very least, shorts and flip-flops with a sweater. Click through though! Of A Kind is an awesome fashion blog/store.
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What’s this? Another new feature? We were thinking that because not everyone lives in fall-y New York or sunny L.A.—we feel you: Claire...
So many people are down for the immediate issue – the indefensible execution of...
– Am I Troy Davis? A Slut?; or, What’s Troubling Me about the Absence of Reflexivity in Movements that Proclaim Solidarity | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
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Happy Columbus Day! Love, Howard Zinn and Reality →
In the year 1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died en route. The rest arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town… Columbus later wrote: “Let...
Al-Qaida calls on Ahmadinejad to end 9/11... →
Reality strikes again, found by maxdot.
It’s just a name. Like those are vertical blinds. It’s just what it was called....
– Haskell County Judge David Davis, sitting in his courtroom and looking at a window.
Rick Perry family’s hunting camp still known to many by old racially charged [sic] name - The Washington Post
Just a name, just a name, just a name, just a name. By the way, when will writers start using...