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Why I'm so mad about this Joe and Chris Brown thing.
Okay I’m going to make this post so that hopefully I stop whining about it everywhere. I can just set out all of my thoughts once and then I don’t have to waste time engaging in a discourse with people who won’t ever agree with me ( Read more... ) -
The King's Speech and HIMYM
I saw The King's Speech!
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Don't save the ta-tas
Here's something that makes my head hurt: Save the TatasThe breast cancer awareness movement has started embracing some really ridiculous campaigns lately. Catchphrases like "Save the Tatas" and "Feel your boobies" and a whole host of other cutesy attempts at humor have flooded campaigns against breast cancer. I think the problems with these ( Read more... ) -
Did I write a really long entry on breakfast tacos?
The New York Times wrote an article about breakfast tacos in AustinThis is relevant to my interests because two of the things I love the most in the world are breakfast tacos and Austin ( Read more... ) -
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"Freedom of expression would not truly exist if the right could be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots."
Tinker v. Des Moines School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). -
Charles Dickens guessed that George Eliot was a woman.
"I should have been strongly disposed, if I had been left to my own devices, to address the said writer as a woman. I have observed what seemed to me such womanly touches in those moving fictions, that the assurance on the title-page is insufficient to satisfy me even now. If they originated with no woman, I believe that no man ever before had the ( Read more... ) -
Warren E. Burger in a letter to Harry Blackmun. 1963.
"I have meant to tell you of a discovery I made a few years ago. It is a very profound one: we are not going to live forever. I have kept this to myself because I do not wish to disturb my contemporaries unduly until they are properly prepared. Worse than that we are not going to be young forever. I was old at 18 and have tried to get more flexible ( Read more... )