This week's word brought to you by Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen, a really interesting read about the real stories behind our American history myths, from Plymouth Rock to Vietnam, and the sociological implications of teaching these myths. 
In other news, I will be gone next weekend.  If anyone is interested in doing the word for ( Read more... )

onomastician
plangent
quiescent
noetic

Cholesterol
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I freaking want this dress right now, in pretty much every single color.
The signature jersey, but I'll settle for the satin.
Ok?  Ok.  kthanxbye.
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What he said.

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was suck.  Super suck.  An abortion, and not one of those good, clean abortions that leaves everyone happy with the former mother able to go back to middle school like nothing ever happened.  I was physically unable to silence my objections in the theater.  It. Was. Just. Fucking. Awful.  There are lots of reasons I couldn't contain my groans, ( Read more... )

I have nothing good to say, so I give you hedgehogs and muscles.

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http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2009/04/20/the_life_histories_of_the_earliest_land_animals.html

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2009/04/18/fossils_suggest_earlier_landwater_transition_of_tetrapod.html
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2009/04/18/alligators_hint_at_what_life_may_have_been_like_for_dinosaurs.html

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