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From haaretz: Breaking with all black, some Chabad men are...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:12:54 -0400

Breaking with all black, some Chabad men are pushing fashion boundaries. A group of Chabad-affiliated men are flouting their community’s sartorial codes, donning boldly colored shoes, trendy hats, bow ties, sharply cut jackets and pocket squares.

So even Orthodox jews are wearing pocket squares? That does it. I guess I have to jump on the bandwagon now, too.

newyorker: Why a certain generation will always love Winnie...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:11:53 -0400

newyorker:

Why a certain generation will always love Winnie Cooper: “It is not so much a phenomenon as a textbook example of nature versus nurture—we were all nurtured to love Winnie Cooper, and to see ourselves as her counterpart, Kevin Arnold.”

Nah. I always thought Kevin should’ve gone for the girl from French class.

Driving home from preschool, a conversation with my 5-year-old son: Javier: “Dad, can I move...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:25:00 -0400

Driving home from preschool, a conversation with my 5-year-old son:

Javier: “Dad, can I move away from you and mom when I’m a grown up?”

Me: “Yes.”

Javier: “When I’m 39? I can move away?”

Me: “Javi, you can move away when you’re 18!”

Javier: “I’m going to move away somewhere and give speeches. Then I’ll put them on the radio and send them to you and mom. I’ll start with: ‘Hi, I’m Javier. I used to live with Zoe and Kate and Miguel. And my cats Watson and Sophie. Watson was black with a little white; one Sophie was all black and the other Sophie was all grey.’ I’ll start like that, just the first time.”

Me: “Where are you going to do this from?”

Javier: “I think I want to do it from Chicago. Are there places where people do that in Chicago?”

Me: “Yes.”

Javier: “Good. I think I want to make speeches and send them on to your radio.”

Me: “You mean radio stories?”

Javier: “Yes. I want to give speeches and record them and send them to your radio.”

Me: “Do you mean like news stories?”

Javier: “Maybe. Lots of different kinds of stories. Just on your radio.”

Me: “Do you mean, like NPR? Do you want to be on NPR when you’re a grown up?”

Javier: “Yeah” [he said it with voice fading, starting to look wistfully away out his window].

My son has just described “This American Life.” And would probably do a better job (at least in terms of annunciation).

ccindecision: barackobama: Does your representative support...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:48:56 -0500

ccindecision:

barackobama:

Does your representative support President Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence? Call and ask right now.

Is that a fossilized baby turtle?

No, that’s a Petosky stone!

From hngrylikethewolf: When you know you suck at life.

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:35:08 -0400

From hngrylikethewolf:

When you know you suck at life.

nbcnews: ‘Meet the Superhumans’: Paralympians burst onto world...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:12:44 -0400

Channel 4 Paralympics - Meet the Superhumans from IWRF on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/46732057

Channel 4 Paralympics - Meet the Superhumans from IWRF on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/46732057

Channel 4

nbcnews:

‘Meet the Superhumans’: Paralympians burst onto world stage

(Photos: Channel 4)

LONDON — A battlefield explosion sends troops flying, a speeding car flips over on a highway, a ”Murderball” player is knocked right out of his wheelchair, all set to a fierce Public Enemy soundtrack.

“Forget everything you thought you knew about strength. Forget everything you thought you knew about humans. It’s time to do battle. Meet the Superhumans.”

Read the complete story.

Wow!

I know two kids that will want these, too. From kohenari: It...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:33:12 -0400

I know two kids that will want these, too.

From kohenari:

It will be no time at all before you see photos of my child wearing one of these on his head. The big question, though, is whether to go with Ernie, Cookie Monster, or Elmo.

A secondary question, of course, is whether they’re warm enough to serve as proper hats. It’s still pretty hot most days, but winter is coming.

(via LaughingSquid)

"Remember when Princess Diana announced she was retiring from public life? She knew what she was..."

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:41:35 -0400

“

Remember when Princess Diana announced she was retiring from public life? She knew what she was doing. Everyone loved her for it. Prince Harry should follow in his mother’s not his father’s footsteps. Strip off his crown. Retire from royalty. Leave the firm and join the crowd.

Then we’d leave him alone.

”

-
Time to strip Prince Harry of his title - Emma G Keller

(via guardian)

Interesting. Except I remember Princess Diana died in large part precisely because you didn’t leave her alone. Whether you want it or not, whether he wants it or not, Harry is stuck with the title—and the paparazzi.

From doubleadoublek: New Custom Newsweek Tumblr GOP Cursors!

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:23:49 -0400

From doubleadoublek:

New Custom Newsweek Tumblr GOP Cursors!

It’s pop, not soda. From npr: Tastes Like Home: As...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:26:18 -0400

It’s pop, not soda.

From npr:

Tastes Like Home: As Regional Sodas Expand, Could They Lose What Makes Them Special? - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities

Foxon Park and its peers — Moxie (Maine), Cheerwine (North Carolina), Vernor’s (Michigan), White Rock (New York), Big Red (Texas), Boylan’s (New Jersey), among others — were the sodas that time forgot. As the exhaustive consolidation of small brands produced standardized American consumer products from coast to coast, they remained, against all odds, regional favorites. Coca-Cola and Pepsi became titans of the American soda market, and yet these bubbly icons of regionalism endured. Locals treasured them, former residents pined for them, and the rest of us hardly knew they existed.

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Mmmmm, Cheerwine! That’s all I’m saying about soda on here though, not another word. Nope. =:ox — tanya b.

"Why do we spend at least 1,000 times more money protecting ourselves from terrorism than we do..."

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:54:07 -0400

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Why do we spend at least 1,000 times more money protecting ourselves from terrorism than we do protecting ourselves from gun violence? I’m not necessarily suggesting that we spend less on anti-terrorism programs. Like everyone else, I am grateful there have been no mass casualty terror events since 9/11. I’m just wondering, instead, what possible justification there could be for spending so relatively little to try to reduce the casualties of gun violence. […]

Our government has asked us consistently since 9/11 to sacrifice individual liberties and freedom, constitutional rights to privacy for example, in the name of national security. And we have ceded these liberties. Yet that same government in that same time hasn’t asked anyone to sacrifice some Second Amendment rights to help protect innocent victims from gun violence.

”

- Andrew Cohen, on terrorism and gun violence. (via theatlantic)

"Americans have repeatedly rejected an expansion of gun control because it doesn’t work. Look no..."

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:10:00 -0400

“Americans have repeatedly rejected an expansion of gun control because it doesn’t work. Look no further than Aurora, where both the city and the theater where the shooting occurred have rules forbidding the carrying of any firearms (the city statute was deemed unenforceable, however, because of the state’s concealed-carry permit statute). On top of that, no one can fire a weapon within Aurora city limits except at gun ranges — not even, apparently, in self-defense. Of course none of that stopped the perpetrator in this case from committing the murders.”

- Ed Morrissey argues that gun-control has failed this country (via theweekmagazine)

Sorry, but that’s not “gun control” but merely laws about where/when they can be used. I think what most people have in mind is the banning of certain kinds of weapons and/or ammunition. For example, “drug control” means that certain kinds of narcotics are not allowed to be sold. Period. But that’s different than saying “you can buy any kind of drugs but simply can’t consume them in public” and calling that drug enforcement.

"Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever..."

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:55:54 -0400

“Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That’s right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bane, B-a-n-e. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there’s now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date’s been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named Bane?”

- Rush Limbaugh’s latest conspiratorial musings. (via theatlantic)

Perhaps Limbaugh forgot that (a) the hero (Bruce Wayne) is one of the richest men on earth and (b) Bane has been around since 1993. But even Limbaugh’s usually tortured logic breaks down here. Notice he points out that The Dark Knight Rises “has been in the works for some time.” In fact, the movie was “in the works” since before 2008, with the rough storyline in place by 2008, with the villain Bane locked down in 2010. You know, long before anyone was sure that Romney would win his party’s nomination.

But if we’re on the subjects of conspiracies and candidates … did anyone notice that the greatest superhero of this summer’s blockbuster (two, if you include both Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne) is a rich playboy who everyone suspects as vapid and incompetent, but turns out to be a self-sacrificing idealist who puts the people first? It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy to make billionaires heroic, eh?

How many votes would the PRI have had to purchase in the 2012 Mexican Election? A Response to Simpser — The Monkey Cage

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:25:36 -0400

How many votes would the PRI have had to purchase in the 2012 Mexican Election? A Response to Simpser — The Monkey Cage:

Joshua Tucker, themonkeycage.org

0 comments
Tolga Sinmazdemir, a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Washington University in St. Louis in the Department of Political Science, sends along the following response to Alberto Simpser’s now very well read Monkey Cag…

Pure speculation. But what the heck, eh?

Yikes. I left a green state (after having lived in two others)...

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:40:00 -0400

Yikes. I left a green state (after having lived in two others) for a red one. So, yeah, I’m aware.

From good:

According to a new Pew study, increasing your earning potential may require literally moving on up: If you aim to climb the income ladder in the United States, your best bet might be to move north and east—and definitely stay out of the south.

WTF?! Seriously?! In the 21st century … people choose to...

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:54:42 -0400

WTF?! Seriously?! In the 21st century … people choose to live like our cavemen ancestors?!

From kqedscience:

Photos of people living off-the-grid in the United States

“Eric Valli spent 3 years taking photos of people in the United States who have “decided to live light on the earth.” The photographs are terrific. It looks like Valli spent time with two clans: a frontier/settler type group, and another group that look almost like cave people. I wish he had included more information about them!”

Hurray! We may yet win the Zombie...

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:53:19 -0400

Hurray! We may yet win the Zombie wars!

From kqedscience:

Zombie ant fungus, meet the anti-zombie-ant fungus

“A new study has found that a zombifying ant fungus can be kept at bay by another pathogen.”

Not Exactly Dr. Seuss

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:52:31 -0400

Um, no thanks?

mentalflossr:

More: 8 Children’s Book Themes Dr. Seuss Never Tackled

Only in America! theatlantic: DEA Agents Abandoned a College...

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:27:23 -0400

Only in America!

theatlantic:

DEA Agents Abandoned a College Student in a Jail Cell for Five Days

A student at UC San Diego was rounded up in a drug bust then left in a DEA holding cell for five days without food or water, after officers apparently forgot he was in there.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested nine people and confiscated large amounts of pills, marijuana, and weapons during a raid near the UCSD campus on April 21. One of them, Daniel Chong, was eventually told that he was not being charged and would be allowed to go home, but after being returned to his cell to await release, no one ever came back for him. He was locked in the 5-foot by 10-foot room with no windows and no toilet from Saturday to Wednesday before he was discovered, 15 pounds lighter and totally incoherent.

Chong says he heard people in nearby rooms, but his cries for help went unheeded. As things got more desperate, he tried to drink his own urine and eventually tried to kill himself with the glass from his own eyeglasses. Chong spent three days in intensive care, where nurses said that he had apparently swallowed the glass, damaging his throat and lungs.

The only other thing that Chong had to ingest was a bag of methamphetamine that he apparently found in his cell.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: NBC San Diego]

This can’t possibly end...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:10:26 -0400

This can’t possibly end well.

shortformblog:

thedailywhat:

Titanic 2 of the Day: Because the maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic didn’t exactly go as planned, an Australian billionaire has commissioned a replica of the ship for a series of journeys that will hopefully have a happier ending.

Clive Palmer, a Queensland-based mining billionaire, is partnering with China’s CSC Jinling Shipyard to build the ship, which will be ready for passengers by 2016.

“It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic but of course it will have state-of-the-art 21st century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems,” he said in a statement.

The ship’s first trip will be from London to New York — rather than from Southampton to New York like the “unsinkable” original — and Palmer admits that some potential passengers will stay away because of superstitions.

“It is going to be designed so it won’t sink. But, of course, if you are superstitious like you are, you never know what could happen,” he said, encouragingly.

No word on what kind of deck chairs the new ship will have, or how they’ll be arranged.

[cnn.]

In which a titan of industry tries to become a Titanic of industry.