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Via tzikeh, the funniest xkcd comic EVER: House of Pancakes.
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I thought Obama's acceptance speech was amazing, and while I didn't agree with everything he said (and while I remain hugely disappointed with his choice of Biden, who, beyond being the consummate Beltway insider who believes in nothing more strongly than politics as usual, is impressed that Obama is "clean" and embarrassed by his wife's education ( Read more... ) -
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Someday I will actually not have 60,000 things going on and have time to write something more than tossed-off comments. That day is not today. Random things in no particular order:- I am actually to the point where I wish Michael Phelps would lose a few damn races so just the NBC commentators and the American press in general would stop furiously ( Read more... )
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Here is my helpful advice for the day: If you were thinking of seeing Wanted? Don't.
Bearing in mind that I walked out 45 minutes in (and I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie before -- I made it all the way through Wicker Park, for god's sake), it's asinine frat-boy wish fulfillment with incredibly unlikable, one-dimensional ( Read more... ) -
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I read Jezebel sporadically enough that I managed to miss this, so via cleolinda: The Exile in Jordan fund
The women's rights agency that tried to smuggle Leila Hussein out of Iraq before her murder is now trying get themselves out of Iraq, but they're out of money, and Jezebel is trying to help. They've already sent an initial payment of $1,700, which is ( Read more... ) -
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I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with the political climate these days. I'm divided pretty much straight down the middle when it comes to Hillary and Obama... I like them both, but I don't love either one. I agree with a lot of what they both have to say; they (and their supporters) have both said and done things that have made me cringe or ( Read more... ) -
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I keep forgetting to post this, because I am sixteen kinds of scattered:
Guardians of Rare Thing podcast, read by mirabile_dictu
The lovely Mira made this for my birthday, and now burnfor and cybel have made a podcast and podbook, respectively, of Stumbling Across Its Bleak Ending, and how fucking cool is it to be in a fandom with people who do these kinds of lovely ( Read more... ) -
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Yeah, women's bodies aren't actually public domain, dickhead ( Read more... )