July 2009
34 posts
#1143 - The Stopping Point →
#1142 - Small Talk →
#1140 - The Florida Cracker →
#1139 - Coach God →
#1137 - Know the Code →
#1138 - BOASAS 2515 →
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The Creator
Steven Cloud: what if you knew about a guy who created these little mini slave people and forced them to obey him and hang out with him. those that disobey him he tortured?
Steven Cloud: i'd move the fuck away from that guy
Pijohos: I'd want ot find out how he can create mini slave people first, to be honest. that sounds really cool.
#1136 - All It Is →
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Pea-Shooting
Pijohos: "Pea shooter traditionalists decry use of laser sights at annual competition"
Pijohos: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/14/pea-shooter-traditio.html
Pijohos: i just like "pea-shooter traditionalist"
Steven Cloud: haha
Steven Cloud: p.awesome
Steven Cloud: i think the laser sight is going too far
Pijohos: i think going to a pea shooting competition is going too far.
Steven Cloud: haha
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“It’s the policy that’s the problem. Drug war hysteria has so twisted...”
– Radley Balko (via Reason Online)
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“Your brain operates on the edge of chaos.”
– David Robson (via New Scientist)
#1135 - A Wealth of Opportunity →
#1134 - Here Right Now →
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“We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in...”
– Howard Zinn (via ZMag.org)
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14 Year Old Girl Tasered In The Head After Mom...
This New Mexico teen was arguing with her mother, so her mother brought her to a police station to get help. The girl ran off and the police chief chased her and ordered her to stop. When she didn’t, he tasered her in the head. The giant scar and stitches in the teen’s head show the tasering was terribly brutal, and it’s difficult to see how this could in any way be justified....
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“Candor ends paranoia.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via claytoncubitt)
#1133 - It's Always Closer →
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The nature of temptation
According to work Nordgren has done, people with the most favorable opinion of their own moral fortitude seem to have the widest empathy gaps. (via boston.com)
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“I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House...”
– Former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin There is no “Department of Law” at the White House.
#1132 - A Declaration →
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Republicans graciously allowing gays to exist.
Leach: Should our only policy towards [same-sex] couples be one of punishment, to somehow prove that they’ve done something wrong?
Eichelberger: They’re not being punished. We’re allowing them to exist, and do what every American can do. We’re just not rewarding them with any special designation.
(via Think Progress)
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What Church does she go to?
Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis is one tough cookie. Last week she opposed subsidizing school lunches for low income children during summer months saying, “Hunger can be a positive motivator.” (via Huffington Post)
#1131 - Choose Wisely →
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Ant mega-colony takes over world →
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
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Pijohos: ITCHFIELD, Conn. - Connecticut police have arrested a teen, accusing him of selling marijuana and packing it in a Chicken McNugget box. Police said the teen and three alleged customers were nabbed after a police officer spotted some suspicious activity over the weekend. Police said the teen grew marijuana in his apartment and packaged the dope in McNugget boxes.
Steven Cloud: McBummer