May 2009
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Alice in Wonderland, you trip out. →
So awesome.
(via gelogelo)
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“I fall back, dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, at having, I myself,...”
– The rooster Chantecler, in Edmond Rostand’s Chantecler
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TONIGHT: Candidates for NYC office participate in...
Reproduced from a League of Humane Voters email alert:
TONIGHT, meet the candidates running to be New York City’s next Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller, as well as Manhattan’s next District Attorney. The candidates will appear at a groundbreaking forum organized by the New York League of Humane Voters and will answer your questions about animal welfare issues.
There’s...
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Ironic Bible Quotes with Donald Rumsfeld
GQ opens a creepy window into the Rumsfeld-Bush relationship and the Bush administration generally.
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Thanks
to all who came out to The Yolk last night! It was an amazing time, and we’ll have some video up soon…
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HERE at The Yolk tonight!!!
:: The Yolk pt. 2 :: Saturday, 5/16 :: Doors @ 9pm :: Performance by HERE at 10pm :: DJ Tinypants to follow :: Libations and vegan confections :: RSVP to yolknyc@gmail.com with name and guests :: Location provided upon RSVP (HINT: It’s in Brooklyn.)
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"godless"
Pope Benedict forcefully denounced the Holocaust on Friday, telling Israelis that the brutal extermination of Jews by the “godless” Nazi regime would never be forgotten or denied.
His language appeared to lift Jewish disappointment over earlier remarks about the murder of six million Jews by his fellow Germans, which to Israelis had sounded cold and distant. (NY Times)
Everyone...
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“It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– Jiddu Krisnamurti (via hazal) (via nruth)
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“I’ll put it to you this way: you give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one...”
– Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, commenting on the inefficacy of the torture techniques of the Bush Administration. Cheney has recently made a spate of appearances to defend those policies and lambast critics. Ventura was waterboarded during his Navy SEAL training. (H/t to Keith Pickering...
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HERE @ THE YOLK Sat 5/16 @ 10pm
This is gonna be sick.
:: HERE at THE YOLK
:: www.yolknyc.com
:: Saturday, 5/16
:: Doors @ 9pm
:: Performance by HERE @ 10pm
:: DJ Tinypants spinning us into the future
:: RSVP to yolknyc@gmail.com with name and guests
:: Location provided upon RSVP (HINT: It’s in Brooklyn.)
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“Sonic Youth are ‘art’ in all the worst senses (they possess a certain...”
– K-Punk’s latest on Sonic Youth. [via] (via anthropophagous)
I couldn’t care less about Sonic Youth and am unable to confirm the specific charge above, but I think the sentiment here is spot on.
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“She earned it. She made her escape and now she deserves what she is getting. She...”
– So said Richard Gentles, a spokesman for Animal Care and Control of New York City, commenting on a cow that escaped from a slaughterhouse in Queens and will now “live out her days free from the prospect of being turned into anyone’s steak.”
You see, she earned it. Those other...
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“We got a bunch of calls from sobbing women.”
– That’s Miami archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta, commenting on the uproar accompanying publication of a photo of internationally followed, Latin-friendly Catholic priest Alberto Cutie (known as Father Cutie) embracing an anonymous woman at a beach.
As a Catholic priest, Father Cutie...
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Swine flu traced to U.S. factory farms
Wired goes where many industry-cheerleading media outlets fear to tread:
At an environmental level, the conditions which shaped H3N2 and H1N2 evolution, and increased the variants’ chances of taking a human-contagious form, are well understood. High-density animal production facilities came to dominate the U.S. pork industry during the late 20th century, and have been adopted around the world....
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A remarkable density of stupid
Sometimes this game brings you to tears. Sometimes it feels right to be wrong. And always it is better than O.K. when the tears streaming down your face are caused by a man in a black cowboy hat and an almost handlebar mustache, a Cajun jockey with more horse than book sense and a scrawny $9,500 gelding.
Chip Woolley, Calvin Borel and Mine That Bird, an improbable — no, impossible — 50-1 long...
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Egypt's politicians prove themselves...
…by ordering a total eradication of pigs in Egypt — 300,000 creatures who have absolutely nothing to do with spreading swine flu — out of the fear that they would otherwise look incompetent.
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