November 2011
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…The Today Show is doing a feature this morning about “all these ‘emoticons’ that are popping up in places like Facebook” and how maybe we shouldn’t use these newfangled things in work emails. I feel like I woke up in 1997.
Nov 28th
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This GOP Thanksgiving Family Forum is making me want to throw things.
Nov 20th
“I have 7 homeschooled kids so I’m qualified to talk about the responsibility of...”
– (paraphrased) Rick Santorum You don’t see anything wrong with that?… Of course you don’t -Joe (via stfuconservatives)
Nov 20th
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WatchWatch
inothernews: I don’t like calling cops pigs. This asshole, Lieutenant John Pike of the UC Davis Police Department, is a pig. This is video of him pepper spraying a group of peaceful protesters at Occupy UC Davis yesterday, without regard and in as inhumane a way as possible. They are sitting there, en masse. Along he comes, spraying an orange-tinted substance onto the lot of them, without...
Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Drillers using counterinsurgency experts (from the... →
It’s funny, I didn’t realize that voicing concerns about fracking/drilling in PA was the same as being a military insurgent: “Matt Carmichael, manager of external affairs for Anadarko Petroleum, which has nearly 300,000 acres of Marcellus Shale gas holdings under lease in Central Pennsylvania, gave a speech urging industry media spokesmen to read a military counterinsurgency...
Nov 18th
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“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 10th
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Joy is in the ears that hear: It's ASK, not AKS. →
yourinfinitespaces: lesserjoke: sociallyrelevant: cocktailpersonality: leejax: cocktailpersonality: It’s called metathesis, it’s a perfectly normal and harmless phenomenon, and it occurs quite regularly in certain sociolects like AAVE. By tagging this… Hooray for descriptivism!
Nov 7th
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Nov 5th
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Nov 3rd
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Nov 3rd
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Nov 1st
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