March 2012
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February 2012
68 posts
just brushing up on the culture wars by reading the imdb user reviews for ‘act of valor’
Victory over Butternut Squash Ravioli
trickledown:
If you’ve ever been to a restaurant with me, you know how much I hate butternut squash ravioli. Not that I actually hate butternut squash ravioli, just what that it represents. Why? Because BSR is commonly the ONLY vegetarian entree available, whether I’m at a high-end dinner in New York or a banquet hall in rural Indiana.
A chef told me the reason for this is that Sysco, the big...
“Because beneath Christianism is a deep fear of the human mind - as if they...”
– oh hay sullivan
A THEORY BASED ON NO EVIDENCE
I have this cockeyed theory about Catholics, having grown up as one
That no matter how closely they adhere to their faith (“fundamentalist Catholic” is practically a contradiction in terms) there are two characteristics most devout Catholics share-
1. They are usually okay with outsourcing their children’s education. LOL @ homeschooling right?
2. Similarly, the governing...
The only good movies in 2011 were The Artist and Beginners.
It’s bittersweet that this will be Jean Dujardin’s last night on American television.
when you look at me
wellesleyunderground:
i think of dan
and by dan
i mean myself
dan chiasson.
UNFOUNDED THEORY #1: fundamentalist Christians’ sort of baffling obsession with in-vitro fertilization is behind this dodged bullet in Virginia.
In Defense of Liz Lemon (Emily Nussbaum for The... →
Lent is awesome because all the born-again Christians on my Facebook feed give up Facebook for Lent and stop posting about Jesus on the Facebook.
“Moiselle. Mademoiselle.”
– Patsy Stone, relevant.
“I was happiest at Wellesley, you know.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, when speaking to a friend about his years in America (via claerwen)
Motivations for getting up early:
1. the bus smells bad after 9am.
2. getting a window seat in the library
The lone Keynesian cry of the collapse-of-Weimar lecture in 2012.
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So NASA is like the misfit child of the Federal Government who went to Northern California for college but flunked out and drifted into an anarcho-transhumanist hackerspace, and who won’t shut up about the “event horizon” in between tokes and no-touching Circuit parties at Peter Thiel’s house right?
“With the support of NASA, Google and a broad range of technology...
Watch“No Brother West, it was an act of whimsy”
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FELLOW VEGETARIANS, WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT... →
There aren’t a lot of things that distinguish me as someone who grew up in the Chicagoland area from children of the professional classes anywhere else. But “I grew up in the 90s and my first grade teacher was a former Luv A Bull” is definitely one of those things.
In light of recent events in Virginia I’d like to turn our attention to the Contagious Diseases Acts.
The CD Acts were passed by the British government in the 1860s as an effort to stop the spread of venereal disease in the Navy. Under the Act, prostitutes in port cities were compelled to submit to vaginal medical examinations. It was extended later in the decade to all women suspected of being...
“Deference and admiration for the rich kept an exchange society in motion, but it...”
– Gareth Stedman Jones, An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate
“-rejected Paine because of commerce feelings”
– I am the best notetaker.
get orals exam date commence wine-panic spiral.
to undisclosed recipients
Dear All,
It has been reported that two homeless men have been found in or
wandering around our graduate student spaces the past two mornings. One
of the men was found sleeping on the couch in 2410 Dwinelle (the grad
lounge).
Automatic thoughts I need to learn to control
“There’s too much freedom in this country.”
“Maybe I should fake my own death”
“If there is a giant earthquake maybe I won’t have to take my oral exams”
There is not a more vile and bizarre display of misogynist condescension on the entire internet than there is in “the comments section in articles about Ron Paul”.
My family - parents and 3 children - share a Netflix account. In addition, a number of current and former roommates of the 3 children also make use of it.
It does great things for the recommendation algorithms.
Top 10 For [mother]
1. Masterpiece Theater: Bleak House
2. Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny.
3. Donnell Rawlings: From Ashy to Classy
4. Archer
5. Mike Epps: Under Rated…Never...
Four twenties ten nine
france: ten
france: twenty
france: thirty
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france: fifty
france: sixty
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france: sixty ten
world: france what are you do—
france: four twenties
world: france stop it
france: four twenties ten
world: france that doesn't even make any sense
france:
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france: hundred.
“If there’s one thing I wish I’d learned at 18, it’s that it’s okay if a crazy...”
– Some Advice for Young People
(via TheAwl)
#Things I will never not be learning the hard way.
Even stupid Arbor in stupid Temescal is jamming Whitney today.
"The idea, in a nutshell, is that when a unit... →
motherjones:
Dr. Waitman Beorn, the Iraq vet and Holocaust studies expert who blew the whistle on Marines’ use of a Nazi SS flag in Afghanistan, explains how poor moral judgment can snowball in a military culture.
this week in my personal journey through neurotic fascism-centered alarmism.
I think this gets to the heart of why, for me, thinking critically about military issues is difficult....
