March 2012
February 2012
“The United States says North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and...”
– The Associated Press (via USA Today), “U.S.: North Korea Agrees to Suspend Nuclear Activities” (via inothernews)
Hahaahaha, they do this like, once a year. Charlie, Lucy is going to take the football away again.
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“Getting excited about being married has just always seemed to me like getting...”
– The Hairpin - Ask A Lady
Whoever this A Lady is, I love her and let’s hang out?
“I suspect that we may be, in some way. Maybe a “shadow war.” Someone...”
– Tom Ricks
NASCAR JUST GOT REAL
matt-t:
FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE
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Amy Rebecca Klein: Not Pretty →
lareviewofbooks:
Edith Wharton was born 150 years ago. Jonathan Franzen’s piece on the occasion in the New Yorker got VICTORIA PATTERSON mad. Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com
Victoria Patterson’s work has often been compared, for good reason, to Edith Wharton’s. This Vacant…
Because I love Edith Wharton and go away, Jonathan Franzen.
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Matthew Lillard is at the Oscars
Matthew Lillard is at the Oscars
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I’ve accidentally been watching the Wealth Channel for the last hour, and now I’m convinced that I simply MUST go to Goa or Kerala soon. Kiss kiss! Ciao!
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“NASCAR is also still redneck as hell. This is meant as a compliment. It is...”
– This is an excellent column, but I am posting it mostly for Blake because I’m pretty sure they rest of y’all dont cur. h/t Matt
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“My point is that we can’t really stop Rihanna from doing business with...”
– - Ta-Nehisi Coates
I don’t want to weigh in on anything that I don’t personally know about or understand, but I think TNC’s take is a really good one, and worth a read (even if you are tired of talking about the Rihanna/Jerk situation).
The myth of the eight-hour sleep (BBC) →
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep...
Great things happening this week
London Fashion Week
Nascar season starts at Daytona
Hunger Games tickets go on sale
Pitchers and catchers have reported; position players report Friday
Burnaway’s Art Crush Bash, aka THE PARTY OF THE YEAR
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: punkisays: Ways... →
punkisays:
Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when…
ALL DAY EVERY DAY
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Why Women Should Write About Sports →
That oversight reveals a broader problem with modern sports journalism: Its writers are frequently afraid of or simply uninterested in tackling the major societal issues posed by a multi-billion-dollar industry made up of celebrity male athletes and ultra-rich male businessmen. Sports reporters were wholly unprepared to report on the child rape scandal at Penn State, which led to a press...
Old Time Family Baseball: Things You May Have... →
oldtimefamilybaseball:
While I try to detox from my own President’s Day weekend (I can feel the casino smoke still trapped inside my pores), here’s a little catch up post of things you may have missed during your own celebrations.
Better than that, every team has now reported to spring training. The long winter is…
Whoa, the Buster Posey story. I kind of like this idea? If I’m...
Calculator: How Expensive is Birth Control? →
austentranslation:
Just adding anecdotally that I had several friends in their young 20’s who went without birth control because it just couldn’t fit in their budgets. And they were all employed women who came from upper-middle class families…
Oh hey that’s my congressman quoted in that article, sounding like a turd. Well dear Tom, I have been paying $15-$30 a month since I was 17...
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