January 2011
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Danfrth is on Tumblr: I was reading this article... →
danforth:
I was reading this article about why men don’t listen to women which outlines the reasons why, er, men don’t listen to women. I was reading through the points and patting myself on the back, feeling pretty good, because I don’t think I, myself, am guilty of any of these “male” traits. Some…
“I have yet to hear someone say that they have a great sex life because they have...
Unapproachable
You know how you’ll see someone at a party, maybe of the opposite sex, whatever, and they look good, and they look bored? SO good, and SO bored, that you think their conversation must be hilarious and utterly removed at the same time, and you wonder what they think about the world, and you just have to find out, so you barely get up the nerve to talk to them, and within two sentences it...
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Tell It Billy
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
-Hamlet, Act Something Scene Something
If anyone in the past four hundred years has come up with a better description of what clinical depression feels like, I haven’t heard about it.
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Can't Seem To Make This Joke Structure Work
If you love “You might be a redneck” jokes, you might be a suburban white person longing for a country-fried blue-collar cultural legitimacy that you will never attain.
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fuckyeahdementia:
Last One I Promise
I’ll try to stop posting about the Giffords shooting, but there are just so many layers of stunningness. In case you haven’t filled your quota of Total Bugfuck Nonsense for the day, might I offer the Wikipedia page of David Wynn Miller, a guy whose writings/ramblings/mental disorders may have inspired the shooter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wynn_Miller
Even better than the...
Amanda Marcotte explains some important shit →
Amanda Marcotte holds the current record for “explaining things that I’ve been thinking about, far better than I could ever explain them”.
Holding the right responsible for their paranoid, incendiary, violent rhetoric reminds me strongly of trying to put a cat in its carrier. You know it has to be done, but you really don’t want to do it. The cat is going to lash out. She’s...
Daily Kos on the Giffords shooting
“What we’re going to be saturated with for the next week or so are the inevitable false equivalencies. We’ll hear, for instance, how there are “nuts on both sides.” Undeniably true. But there is no ubiquitous liberal - much less, left-wing - network of talk-radio stations spouting Two Minutes’ Hate 24/7. The collective voice of the right wing on radio and the...