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Journey to Babel
A collection of re-imagined movie posters in Art Deco style included one of my favorite ST:TOS episodes. This is pretty awesome:
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It's a small world...
As kat1031, inyou, Jennifer, and I were walking back to the hotel on Sunday, we hear from the side of the road a British accent saying "I feel like I'm back in Whitby ( Read more... ) -
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Somewhat following the election aftermath in Britain, and saw on the Guardian that Billy Bragg is calling for pro-electoral reform protests.
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disgusting
I suppose at this point, I really shouldn't find this surprising:
StormfrontWPWW (White Pride Worldwide) is the Twitter account for Stormfront, a racist organization that is the latest project of uber-racist Stephen Donald Black, better known as Don Black. He was a Grand Wizard in the KKK and a member of the American Nazi Party ( Read more... ) -
What Matthew Yglesias said
Responding to a complaint about Paris restaurants having short menus:
Tons of choice, to me, indicates that you’re preparing food with a client-base in mind that doesn’t really care about food and would rather eat “what they want to eat” rather than something good. I want something good! And I want a staff that’s cooking for people who want ( Read more... ) -
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Once upon a time, someone who ranted about beating their legislators to a bloody pulp and cleaning his gun over the issue of non-phosphate dish soap would be ignored as the ranting loon he was.
These days, CNN offers him a job.
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Infusion ≠ Distillation
This is stupid. California's Alcoholic Beverage Control Department seems to have suddenly decided that bars and restaurants that make their own liquor infusions are violating laws against distillingOf course, taking already distilled alcohol and infusing it with another ingredient is nothing like distillation. But why let that get in the way of ( Read more... ) -
Our Stupid Discourse
You know, if the commander-in-chief of the most powerful millitary force the world has ever seen needs a piece of pie and a cigarette every now and then to calm down - please, somebody, give him a piece of pie and a fucking cigarette.
Just sayin'.
