October 2011
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Dr. Venture: ...and there she is, you can see her right there, just writhing on the hood of the car! What was David Coverdale to do?
Dean: Break up... umm, white... lion?
Dr. Venture: That's Whitesnake, Dean, and yes, both Brock and I lay the blame squarely on Tawney's hot, silky shoulders. Now let that be a lesson to you.
Dean: About what?!
Dr. Venture: Ah, I'm so glad we had this talk.
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Canada’s homicide rate declines to a 44-year low, Conservatives continue treating hard statistics as ‘bothersome.’
“Some government members, including Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, have maintained the number of crimes that go unreported is on the rise, which they say suggests Canadians have little faith in the justice system and underscores the need for tough...
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The Tragic, Hilarious “We Are The 53 percent”... →
The conservative response to the “We are the 99 percent” movement is … hilarious. (And, sure, heartbreaking.) Conservative filmmaker Mike Wilson and vacuous right-blogger Erick Erickson joined forces to start“We Are the 53%,” a blog made up of contributions from the 53 percent of Americans who pay more in federal income taxes than they receive back in deductions or credits.
The project was...
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“Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from communist times.
A guy was sent from...”
– Slavoj Žižek, from a speech given at Occupy Wall Street (via toniiu)
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I don’t remember a lot about being eight years old, but I do recall watching the Avalanche in the 1996 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and I definitely remember coming to the conclusion that this guy was just about the greatest hockey player I’d ever seen, on the best team around. In my more cynical moods, I have wondered about the logic of this fandom. It was hard, in the late 90s, to follow...
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Something brewing beneath transphobic ads in... →
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