September 2011
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: From Our "10... →
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10. Welfare for Warlords: Paying Afghan truckers to pay the bad guys.
9. The World’s Most Expensive Road: Guess how much? Guess how long? Sit down first.
8. The Grifter, His Villas, and the Exploding Wall Outlets. Um, yeah. Just read it.
7. Rent-a-Ripoff: How much does the world’s…
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This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...
– Walt Whitman (via deaflyrain)
August 2011
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John Thorn [official historian for Major League Baseball]: “I think the deep,...
– http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/playing-catch-why-is-it-so-much-fun/
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Bill Watterson Writes, Illustrates, Shreds New...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH—Despite not having published a new comic strip since December 1995, cartoonist Bill Watterson has reportedly taken the time every day since to write, pencil, hand-ink, and, out of spite, destroy a new installment of Calvin And Hobbes. “Wow, this might be one of the best yet,” Watterson said as he completed his 5,689th strip of the past 16 years and then...
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In defense of the committee, we might say that the achievement of doing nothing...
– Noam Chomsky on Barack Obama winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize (via aerogare)