December 2011
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OkCupid just sent me an email that is part of a...
Greetings fellow atheist,
Here at OkCupid, we try to match like with like over the Holidays. Why? No idea. But since you’ve told us you’re an atheist, we thought we’d hook you up with a special like-minded someone… .
She’s a great match for you, and single. So, while everyone else goes about their Christmas business, you two could be, you know, hanging out....
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Ker-pow! Women kick back against comic-book sexism →
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Potluck Preparation Anxiety
A teen might think:
Instead of making any decisions, I’m balled up on my bed rocking back and forth saying”
“Oh gosh, what about carbon emissions?”
“Oh gosh, what could I bring that they wouldn’t have to pretend to like?”
“Oh gosh, what about…”
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GETTING DIALECTICAL‽ gets dialectical with Yes'...
spacezine (hey that’s us) asked:
Will I be free? Will I be me? (Please see, “You Can Be Saved” by Yes on youtube.)
gettingdialectical responds:
If you’re free, there could be all sorts of ways to be yourself in the future. And how.
One voice asks “Will I be free?”
“Yes, if you’re flowing.”
This could mean a flexible you down the road, taking in and give out to the...
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The Last Question By Isaac Asimov →
Recently our spacefriend was thinking about holidays and posted a great story by Isaac Asimov that this contributor read on Christmas morning and greatly enjoyed.
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Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions 1942 →
3, 6, 11, 17, 27, and 31 are really poignant for me.
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Visiting The Coop
Since moving to Lexington back in May, I’ve been negligent in not patronizing our local grocery cooperative. Today I decided to act on my desire to acquire cabbage and learn to turn it into food. Since I was feeling kind of woggy and like I wanted some nutrients, the coop’s grocery store and cafe was the perfect combo for me.
My visit to the coop gave me a transgressive...
Oprah's face-- a nice touch →
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GETTING DIALECTICAL‽ gets dialectical with... →
You could also perform Asimov’s “The Last Question” with your teen and family tribe. An elaborate computer who may be the same thing as some other ancient cosmic totality has to grapple with the universe’s slide toward heat death. And maybe you could, too.
Don't you love it when...
your mom renounces blood diamonds
some days are like this →
I’m not allowed to make this link to youtube or whatever.
It’s the Replacements singing “Bastards of Young”
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Why I have to figure out a way to book a boyband...
My friend (we’ll call him B) and I regularly spend holidays texting each other back and forth trying to top each other’s ridiculous family antics. His fam is more openly aggressive while mine opts for the passive approach. We first learned that we hated holidays when I told him to be thankful because I was trimming my massive bush. (Consequently, Thanksgiving always reminds me to...
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church lessons
Oh man, did anyone ever get “Nine Lessons and Carols” preached to you?
Because there’s totally a line that reads, “And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp…”
ANYONE?
/gradeschoolhumor
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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Cracker Barrel v Whole Foods: Lifestyles &... →
“Politics is aligned with lifestyle right now, not policy,” says Texas journalist Bill Bishop, author of “The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart.” “Food used to be political because it represented a class of farmers or workers. Now it represents certain tastes.” … .
Pollsters and corporate marketers increasingly...
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coruscating:
sometimes i wish i had an excuse to dress up all the time because i always feel so cute
but then i remember dressing up requires me getting out of bed and i’m like
nope
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Kim Jong-Il's most important contribution to... →
Just as it already has in South Korea, the culture of dropping a shot of hard liquor into one’s beer is spreading throughout North Korea these days. Now, people are even drinking depth charges, or bomb shots, or, in Korean, “poktan-ju” at ordinary gatherings. In North Korea, this is normally called a ‘mixed drink.’ It first became popular a few years ago among those white collar managers who...