February 2012
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In animation you can be anyone you want to be. If you’re a white man, you...
– Chris Rock, presenting the winner for best animated feature.
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conanofallon:
billy crystal so far tonight has covered
black jokes
fat jokes
old jokes
woman jokes must be coming up next
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Try to envision the mindset of a legislator who would enact a bill the sole...
– The Republican War on Women: Invading the Vagina in Virginia (via abaldwin360)
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On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via muddlet)
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“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.”
—Malcolm X
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David Foster Wallace essay archive - Harper's... →
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I can go into an audition with my makeup and my hair and my lashes and come out...
– Viola Davis on how people perceive her. (via nprfreshair
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utilize:
This is a puff-word. Since it does nothing that good old use doesn’t...
– -DFW’s note on ‘utilize’ in the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus
Keep it simple, stupid.
(via fedinger)
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He’s incapable of sympathizing with people who can’t pay their bills, because...
– Matt Taibbi, The Odd Couple: Romney vs. Gingrich. Perhaps the most succinct explanation of Romney’s worldview I’ve ever come across. (via wisconsinforward)
When is Matt Taibbi ever not amazing? Definitely my favorite political writer.
(via foulmouthedliberty)
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