July 2011
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The Unfortunate Plight of Kitler
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trove:
“Kitler” needs a home! Trove’s Cats channel brought the plight of Kitler to our attention. According to the Daily Mail, “An abandoned kitten is struggling to find a loving home because her unusual markings bear an uncanny resemblance to Hitler.” If someone is willing to live in a house that looks like Hitler, doesn’t Kitler deserve a home, too?
Have none of...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF WEAPONISED UMBRELLAS →
criminalwisdom:
Via Gizmodo
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“But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose...”
– David Foster Wallace on Life and Work - WSJ.com (via youmightfindyourself)
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“They can preserve and reheat foods? Oooh-la-la! I guess the poor are too good...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, on a conservative group’s findings that “99.8 percent” of the nation’s poor own a refrigerator and that the majority own a microwave — making them, we guess, not poor? — on The Colbert Report.
The federal definition of poverty is a family of four subsisting on less than $22,000 a...
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The End of Borders Is A Win For Technology,... →
The demise of Borders didn’t just happen because Americans are reading less, although there is clear evidence of that (check out the 2007 report “To Read or Not To Read” from the National Endowment of the Arts to see the direction that literacy is headed). A fundamental shift has occurred, one that many web users intuitively understand even as the various media industries have been ineffectual...
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Watchitsfullofstars:
the Space Shuttle Era comes in for a landing.
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If your website's full of assholes, it's your... →
Happy blogiversary Mr. Dash.
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L.A. Liberty: Prisons, Prosecutors, and Police: An... →
laliberty:
The Facts About American Prisons
U.S. incarceration rates are significantly larger than those in any other liberal democracy. Only a small share of the drop in violent crime is the result of expanded incarceration.
Rape Factories
The U.S. Department of Justice recently released…
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“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get...”
– woody allen (via bumbarmshouse)
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F*cking in Brooklyn: The (at least) fifteen... →
fuckinginbrooklyn:
Foreplay is the flirty text message she received during her morning meeting. It’s the thirty second mid-afternoon phone call describing in explicit detail what you intend to do to her when she gets home. Foreplay is asking how her day was, and actually listening when she tells you. If you’re…
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'My family is eating stir fried dandelions out of...
theweekmagazine:
downbutnotoutletters:
My family is eating stir fried dandelions out of yards to keep from starving. I am college educated and cannot pay rent. I have not had a penny income so far this year. We were turned down for food stamps. We are natural born US citizens.
M.C., via comments
Heartbreaking.
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“From our position of being reasonably well off and comfortable, [perhaps]...”
– CEP | Esther Duflo Explains Why She Believes Randomized Controlled Trials Are So Vital | The Center for Effective Philanthropy (via robot-heart-politics)
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“No, the reason I won’t admit my secret and overwhelming desire to write books is...”
– -Brenna Yovanoff (via bethrevis)
Yup, what she said.
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The High Costs of Wrongful Convictions →
Wrongful convictions of men and women for violent crimes in Illinois have cost taxpayers $214 million and have imprisoned innocent people for 926 years, according to a seven-month investigation by the Better Government Association and the Center on Wrongful Convictions. The joint investigation, which tracked exonerations from 1989 through 2010, also determined that while 85 people were...
