December 2011
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Dec 30th
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11 Quotes From 2011
think-progress: 1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett  2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton  3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us will die.” — Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) 4. “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who’ve been...
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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516. Never leave someone hanging on a high five....
Dec 23rd
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Kyoko has a blog: Lessons Learned: 2011  →
brain-food: Make your own adventure: Regardless of how trivial it is. Make an adventure out of it. Create a treasure map to the grocery store, make up a whole different identify for yourself at Starbucks, speak with a different accent for an entire day. Doesn’t matter what it is, just make it an adventure…. Some great revelations and reminders. 
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
jesthenoir: One has claws at the end of its paws and one is a pause at the end of a clause. I love a good decent grammar joke. 
Dec 22nd
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“If abstinence is so effective, why is it only taught in a sexual setting? We...”
– Reddit user ZeroNihilist at Found it while eating pizza at my Nannas. I almost choked. (via atarimcgregor)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or...”
– The Secret (via annye)
Dec 22nd
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6-word short stories
cheia: bourbons / cinderellainrubbershoes For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -Richard Powers The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge ...
Dec 22nd
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.           — Mary Oliver
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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One teachers approach to preventing gender... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got… Amazing and brave teacher takes on gender stereotyping. 
Dec 20th
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“He proudly showed off photographs of himself standing with Toni Kukoc of the...”
– from a profile on Kim Jong-il’s son (and heir apparent) Classmates Recall Kim Jong-un’s Basketball Obsession (via apsies) Toni Kukoc=Croatian Sensation. 
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via coketalk)
Dec 19th
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“As we ride past, I fall in love with my city all over again. Yes, it’s crowded...”
– Jen Lancaster (via melissawrites)
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.”
– Nelson Algren
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the...”
– Rick Perry (via leisures) oh my god (via devalina)
Dec 17th
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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine (via rachel-berry)
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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“I for one am offended by those who would condemn the Christmas lifestyle. They...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, mocking Rick Perry’s homophobic “not ashamed to be a Christian” ad — almost 346,000 dislikes, BTW — on The Colbert REport (via inothernews)
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Wherein Michele Bachmann is confronted by an...
cognitivedissonance: And it’s just as fantastic as it sounds: Watch the video: The look of shock on her face is incredible. Elijah is brave little man, and I commend him. Badass. I’d vote for Elijah before I voted for Michele. 
Dec 7th
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509. The best place to learn a foreign language is...
Dec 7th
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Why Your Water Bill Must Go Up →
climateadaptation: I LOVE infrastructure stories. I didn’t know Rahm started to replace the city’s pipes. That’s some beeg dollaz tharr Rahmee… I suppose it’s best to get the hard projects out of the way early in his career.  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched a $4.1 billion initiative to replace his city’s dilapidated water infrastructure last month, spinning it as a plan to create 18,000...
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011 →
Dec 5th
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