October 2009
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Breckenridge Pushes To Legalize Marijuana
A measure before Breckenridge voters in Tuesday’s municipal election would legalize possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana along with bongs, pipes and other pot paraphernalia. Supporters of the measure say it would inch the whole state closer to full legalization. (via Huffington Post)
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Bats are freaky, sexually.
Outside of humans and a few other primates, oral sex is a rare phenomenon. But researchers have found male fruit bats do enjoy a little oral stimulation, and that the reasons females offer it go beyond simple pleasure. (via iO9)
Watch“Pete Drake, a ’50s and ’60s pedal steel session guitarist who was one of the earliest (if not the earliest) proponent of what he called ‘the talking guitar.’” (via 17dots)
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Did you know...
Most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches. CBN.com (via Huffington Post)
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“Zim charged me and I think he’s going to say something, but his reaction...”
– Pedro Martinez [Starter for PHI tonight against the NYY in Game 2 of the World Series]
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“Our research suggests that torture may not uncover guilt so much as lead to its...”
– Science Daily
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“I’m in the wrong business. I don’t want to beat anybody, I...”
– Phil Hill
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Wow. And I thought he was a douche BEFORE I read...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissented in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation based on race. (Via Huff Post)
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Geniuses and Idiots
Is it possible for someone to be extremely intelligent and creative in a certain field and at the same time, in other respects, to be simple minded? The answer is yes.
Consider Isaac Newton. He was certainly a genius in the fields of mathematics and physics. On the other hand he devoted most of his life to studying the prophecies of the Bible, calculating the year in which God created the entire...
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#1171 - Kid's Tips (Halloween) →
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Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth...
Take the peculiar case of an individual known as BW. As BW drove his car one day, the trees and buildings by the road began to speed by, as if he were driving at 300 kilometres per hour. BW eased up on the accelerator, but the cityscape continued to whizz by. Unable to cope with the speed of the world around him, BW stopped his car by the roadside. While BW perceived the world as having...
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“The book-burning is being promoted as a social event with a barbecue dinner. The...”
– “Pastor to Host Halloween Bible-Burning Event” via Fox News
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“Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, describes Goldman Sachs as a “great vampire squid...”
– NY Times via Rolling Stone
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#1169 - Meanwhile... →
#1168 - Double Down →
#1170 - Measurment →
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Oh, Becky.
[Glenn Beck’s] monologue, which was interrupted a few times by his tears, began with the wisdom that politicians can’t take us back to that simpler time; they can only take us farther away. It then devolved into a strange and extended analogy of America as a teenage kid who got dragged to a party he didn’t really want to go to, and where his friends poured beer on him, and that...
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Steven Cloud: http://www.heyokay.com/2009/country-bear-doin-thangs/
Steven Cloud: for your movie idea
Pijohos: that bear
Steven Cloud: he's really alive there
Steven Cloud: they fucked up at some point and killed him (aka lost his spirit).... then had to go animatronic
Pijohos: he wanted too much honey
Steven Cloud: hahahaha
Pijohos: i'm done for the day
Steven Cloud: GOD.
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“Skenazy points out that there has never been a single substantiated incident of...”
– Via Boing Boing
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Best/Worst Mom ever?
He is suspected of taking three planes from rural airports and crash-landing them. There were bare footprints inside and outside some hangars that had been broken into. In one, police said, footprints were on the wall _ indicating that the suspect put his feet up, apparently while eating.
His mother said she doesn’t see anything wrong with what he’s suspected of doing.
“I hope...
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa
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