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I think I am going to start a group. Something like People for the Ethical Treatment of Yogurt Cultures (PETYC?) or Foodies Against Non-Fat Yogurt Products (FANYP?). Has anyone else noticed how hard it is to buy full fatted (not low fat, not no fat) yogurt in the States ( Read more... )

Looking for a job is never, ever fun and after a week of fervent searchings and stalking craigslist so intensely that the site might have to get a restraining order against me, I feel deflated and burnt out and I still don't have a job. This cannot go on! My internship is poorly paid, as are all internships, and not that many hours and goddammit if ( Read more... )

“Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he [Obama]’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights,” Ms. Palin said ( Read more... )

My newest form of procrastination has been watching political speeches on youtube, which leads me to the following observation ( Read more... )

Bron thinks I'm joking about my Grand Barbecue Tour of the Southeast. But I am not!

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Best part: Florida disowned!

Also, more reasons I'm finally shucking off my Veggies and Straight Talk Guy mantle upon return to the South.

I think the more time I spend trying to be inside William Morris's head the less able I am to participate in the simplest discussions about current affairs and the like. For some reason I can't stop relating everything anyone brings up to Morris's Socialist Utopia Future. Considering the sweet man's sweet visions of a sweet little communal Europe ( Read more... )

The best thing about the UK, aside from Early Modernists, is definitely this:


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At 4 a.m. I woke up and realized the sun was rising. Sometimes I forget how far North I really am, and then something like that happens and I begin to feel crazy. It doesn't set in the evening until around 10 or 10:30. Weird island ( Read more... )

"Modern history was born in the nineteenth century, conceived and developed as an instrument of European nationalism. As a tool of nationalist ideology, the history of Europe's nations was a great success, but it has turned our understanding of the past into a toxic waste dump, filled with the poison of ethnic nationalism, and the poison has seeped ( Read more... )