July 2010
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“I think sometimes, as Democrats, we come into knife fights carrying library...”
– Anthony Weiner
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JJ Abrams and 'Bad Robot' acquire rights to film... →
“Boilerplate” purports to tell the story of the world’s first robot, who, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia, journeyed to the South Pole and was involved in the silent movie business before disappearing on the battlefields of World War I.
Yeah, I’m going to see this.
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“Occasionally I receive a paper from a student that is so outstanding in content...”
– Omer M. Mozaffar, in a very interesting article on Inception.
“If all people want is to see something they understand, they shouldn’t go to the...”
– Bertolt Brecht (via hotparade)
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“See? He [Breitbart] didn’t say he wanted to be in the history books as a...”
– Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show, re: the rushed firing of Shirley Sherrod over comments taken out of context by Andrew Breitbart, conservative blogger and Tea Party activist.
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Department of Defense can’t account for 96 percent... →
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abbyjean:
Yesterday, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released its findings on how the money was spent from a special Iraq reconstruction fund set up by the Department of Defense (DOD) between 2003-2007. The account used Iraqi oil money to fund the reconstruction of Iraq. SIGIR concluded that 96 percent of the $9.1 billion the reconstruction program...
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Past Perfect: Christina Hendricks in LA Times... →
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Donald Glover's many identities - latimes.com →
I love this guy for so many reasons—almost as many reasons as he has artistic accomplishments.
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Arrested Development movie? Still on. →
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A hidden world, growing beyond control.
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
Article here, at The Washington Post. It’s mind-boggling.
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The Rock and Roll Baby Name Dictionary →
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BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center,... →
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nickdouglas:
Check out the high res image to see how hilariously obvious this is.
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“A new Pew Research poll finds that just 34% of Americans know that the federal...”
– Most Think Bank Bailout Came During Obama Term (via ryking) (via soupsoup)
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