January 2012
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Tonight's to-do checklist
Complete taxes (so that I may receive my refund sooner to put it all on red at the casino).
Complete and submit the first modules of both my graduate courses (so that I can instantly be pinpointed as the overachieving asshole).
Finish my economics lessons for next week (so that I can be lazy and not stay late tomorrow).
Wash, dry, and put away my laundry (emphasis on “put away,”...
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“Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s...”
– President Obama, State of the Union Address (2012)
Help us, President Obama-Kenobi, save states like Pennsylvania from governors hellbent on destroying public education. You’re our only hope.
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“Intro” by The xx
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It took 26 years, but finally, Gary Oldman is an Oscar-nominated actor.
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“I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all...”
– Robert Owen in The Life of Robert Owen
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“I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty,...”
– Robert Owen in his 1816 address to the inhabitants of New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Indeed, his words ring more true today than ever before.
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misterpeace replied to your quote: In a perfect world, individuals would be free to…
this guy is a sanctimonious, hypocritical, self-proud douche. I don’t know why you keep quoting him, like he’s brilliant or something.
awritersruminations replied to your quote: In a perfect world, individuals would be free to…
I know you like him (and I used to as well) but he has said some very...
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“In a perfect world, individuals would be free to take all the heroin they wanted...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw
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I have only the blackout to thank for actually engaging my panicking Wikipedialess students (who have a research paper due tomorrow) in a thoughtful dialogue about about SOPA, PIPA, rights, and the political process.
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“I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw
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Peter Dinklage!
It’s about time he receives some major acclaim. If you want to know who this Martin Henderson he spoke about was, click here.
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“It’s a cultural thing. And that intersection of what makes food possible to me...”
– Andrew Zimmern on the importance of food in understanding different cultures.
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To answer your question, misterpeace - can both New England and Denver lose? But really, if I have to choose, I find myself in the rare position where I’d find pleasure in a New England win. Or rather, a Tim Tebow loss.
Since Pittsburgh’s loss, I was rooting for New Orleans to win it all (it’s impossible not to like Drew Brees), but now I think I am going to hop on the San...
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This New Orleans and San Fran game is probably the best game I’ve seen all season. Wow.
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“It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have...”
– Warren Buffet responding to Mitch McConnell’s argument that if Buffet feels “guilty” about paying so few taxes, then he should “cut a check” to the U.S. government
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“Apertura” by Gustavo Santaolalla...
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“Sweating through your shirt, resisting the urge to double over in pain, you...”
– I have never really been able to explain why it is I subject myself to foods that cause physical pain. I’m talking burn-my-nostrils, make-me-cry pain. Why?
When I was eleven years old, I had my first extra sloppy, extra spicy chicken wing from a local pizza joint - mild by my current...
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It was like Angels in the Outfield out there tonight. Great season overall but a tough way to go down - although Tebow played his ass off. Should be an interesting rest of the playoffs.
I’m Batman.
No, seriously. I am. I’m Batman.
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fortuneandglory:
I live my life guided by my reasoning, my logic, my experiences, and my compassion for the well-being of others. To quote Lincoln, from William Curtis’s 1902 biography, “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
I am against anything that cripples social progress, science, and education. I am against anything that uses the supernatural as...
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“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes....”
– Aldo Leopold in his autobiographical story Thinking Like a Mountain
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Childhood and life.
When I was a child, all I wanted to be was a cop. I could probably blame my parents for letting me watch Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and Turner & Hooch as early as kindergarten, but I’ll blame it on my overactive imagination. Still, that is what I thought policing was all about: running around making snarky remarks, shooting and getting shot often, and generally kicking ass with very few...
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“If there was any justice in this world, I would have been a dead man at least...”
– Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential
But I’m wising up.
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December 2011
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