December 2010
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New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody...
– Mark Twain (via flavorpill)
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Delayed flight
Bad coffee
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Regardless of our maturity, everyone did some growing up this year, and it took...
– Dear Coke Talk: On new years eve.
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Brothers Who Served in Vietnam Fight Deportation →
At 62, Valente Valenzuela faces deportation back to a country he left as a child. Wounded in Vietnam, issued a Bronze Star for bravery, and a sufferer of post traumatic stress disorder, Valente cannot believe that the country he served with honor now wants to turn its back on him. His brother, Manuel, who also fought in the Vietnam war, has also been ordered out of the country.
The way our...
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You do not varnish your opinions.
– “True Grit”
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In this kind of cold, it is hard to imagine that we will ever be warm again, as...
– “All Alike” by Adam Gopnik
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Top Ten Two-Beer Arguments of 2010 →
“The top ten two-beer arguments that I hope (probably in vain) not to have to keep having with friends/acquaintances/enemies/family members in 2011”
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I found my glasses, you guys!
They’ve been MIA for the past 7 months. Apparently they were in one of my purses all along.
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If I can't get the cork back in, that means I have...
Right?
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Just because nothing matters, that doesn’t mean you get to be a dick.
Nihilism...
– Dear Coke Talk: On nothing.
Words to live by, kids.
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In October, recordings by the show’s cast overtook the Beatles in terms...
– Well that’s depressing.
“‘Glee’ throws lifeline to music industry”
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Feels Like: 9°
No. Temperatures should always have a number in the tens place.
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This concept of “wuv” confuses and infuriates us
– Lrrr, “Futurama”
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This is not the time for resignation or resentment or fatalism. It’s the...
– Andrew Sullivan on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Sriracha mayo
Great condiment or greatest condiment?
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inothernews:
“Tragedy comes in threes: Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards’s passing and Barack Obama’s announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits.”
— Tea Party darling and failed Senatorial candidate CHRISTINE O’DONNELL, comparing the extension of the Bush tax cuts to… oh, Jesus H. Christ, it’s not even fucking worth it.
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