March 2012
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AP - BREAKING George Zimmerman wins Mega Millions... →
“In other words, for people who are bad at cost-benefit analysis because they are...”
– Boozing your way to efficient goal pursuit
hellhoundonmytrail:
Blind Willie McTell “Kill It...
“A state, a people, a civilization, is forever marked by how it treats its...”
– Welcome to Alabama
Is there a good statistic for the number of people that have blown out their brains in front of a computer with five tabs open to job search engines?
Older women in line at the grocery store always look at me with such suspicion when I start to place my groceries on the conveyor belt.
Has anyone ever mistakenly paid for an entire strangers cart of shit because someone moved that little plastic bar?
It’s like they expect to turn around after paying and see me sprinting to the door, a case of Natural Ice under each arm, yelling:...
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What is your daily quota for calling out (other) white people as racists (while in a position of complete safety) ?
“Statistics show that roughly a quarter of each graduating class find jobs in...”
– Rolling Stone
“Last spring, Yale became the subject of a federal Title IX investigation after a...”
– Confessions of an Ivy League blah blah blah blah
“Instead of saving up for their sons’ college education, Bill Dunham and...”
– Student Loans on the Rise - For Kindergarten
Woooo! Double down America!!!
“It’s always a bit strange to hear people with government-funded single-payer...”
– Slate
Proving you're gay to the Turkish army →
Gokhan, conscripted in the late 1990s, very quickly realised that he was not made for the army.
”I had a fear of guns,” he reminisces.
As a gay man he was also afraid of being bullied, and after little more than a week he plucked up the courage to declare his sexual orientation to his commander.
”They asked me if I had any photographs.” Gokhan says, ”And I...
“The view of economists is that each individual seeks to maximize his benefit....”
– Greed is the beginning of everything
“To flog detainees, Iranian interrogators use cables of varying diameters: cable...”
– ESCAPE FROM IRAN - THE ATLANTIC
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“The home of a Roswell man who has spent years fighting to keep chickens on his...”
– You can only push the locavores so far
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This neurologist I’m talking too says there’s an Alzheimer’s cure right around the corner.
His researcher friends are perfecting a treatment.
But it costs $20,000 per year. Economies of scale won’t make it any cheaper.
So he’s predicting social revolution/national bankruptcy as your parents enter their 80s. (“We already have a similar, incredibly expensive...
integrityintennisshoesnicholas:
jay reatard-...
If you’ve hooked-up, does that make you part of hookup culture? In the same way having farted makes you part of fart-culture?
List of sole survivors of airline accidents or... →
“It was quite a story this week when the Center for Public Integrity, a...”
– Contest for Funniest New Jersey Joke Has a Winner - Bloomberg
Listicle without commentary; the subjects of my recent dreams in order:
1. Sex
2. Revenge
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“You should be able to apply for welfare through Myspace.”
– Girl at Starbucks
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To Draw Reluctant Young Buyers, G.M. Turns to MTV... →
whatevs:
detroitgorilla:
Young people stopped buying cars when companies like GM stopped employing them.
Under 35 which never represented more than about a third of new cars buyers to begin with has an unemployment rate of about 11%, factor in people who have quit looking for jobs, gone back to school or are underemployed, it’s much higher. Part of the problem is the 67 year old boomer won’t...
You should be willing and proud and be fucking smiling, as if in your goddamn middle school yearbook wearing braces and an ugly polo shirt, to be crushed by your dreams and squeezed into a concentrated industrial slurry of bitterness. Otherwise your just a fucking senior citizen wheezing on the couch wondering what’s going to come on next on the Fox Business channel and counting down the...
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