December 2010
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Classmates.com Employees Don't Have Heart To Tell... →
SEATTLE—Employees at Classmates.com—an online service that enables users to find and communicate with people from their past for a monthly fee—have done everything in their power to keep the company’s CEO from finding out about the wildly popular social networking site Facebook. “He knows something is going on,” Classmates.com web coder Josh Krzysch said while combing his...
Dec 29th
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“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I...”
– William S. Burroughs
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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
– Euripides
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“To “choose” dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw...”
– Christopher Hitchens
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“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it...”
– Henry David Thoreau
Dec 20th
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Dirty Christmas phrases!
Dec 19th
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Dec. 16, 1770: Beethoven’s Birth in Bonn Leads to... →
1770: Ludwig van Beethoven is born to a family of musicians in Bonn, Germany. His Ninth Symphony will play a role in determining the length of the music CD. Exactly how big a role is a matter of debate.
Dec 16th
Andy Borowitz: In Latest Compromise With GOP,... →
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In his latest effort to find common ground with Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama said today that he was willing to agree that he is a Muslim. Differences over his religious orientation have been a sore point between the president and his Republican foes for the past two years, but in agreeing that he is a Muslim, Mr. Obama is sending a...
Dec 14th
ListenAwful Christmas music: Day 1 - Neil Diamond sings...
Dec 13th
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“You must not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come...”
– JC, as quoted in Matthew 10:34-35 Merry Christmas everyone.
Dec 12th
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Note to Conservative Christians: Your God Is Kind... →
(via The Rude Pundit) One of the only differences between contemporary times and ancient ones regarding religion is that, back in the day, people worshiped different gods. Instead of being followers of Apollo or Bacchus or Athena, now, with our oh-so-advanced brains, we just have a single god for Christianity who is capable of all-embracing love for one sect and all-consuming hatred for another....
Dec 11th
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BREAKING: Angry Senator Has Been Talking for a... →
langer: It’s Friday afternoon! Which means you’re sitting at your desk, you’re counting down the minutes until the weekend (and the Awl Bawl, duh), you’re furiously refreshing Twitter in a desperate search for some kind of distraction to pass the last few hours of the work week, and the thought never even crossed your mind (understandably!) to check C-SPAN 2 (aka “the deuce”), where you would...
Dec 11th
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Elizabeth Edwards Funeral To Be Picketed By... →
Let’s not forget that god also hates Fred Phelps. These assholes can go to hell.
Dec 10th
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“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Julian Assange Fired From IT Job At Pentagon | The... →
ARLINGTON, VA—With officials describing his publication of sensitive U.S. State Department documents as “the last straw,” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was asked to resign from his position as the Pentagon’s IT coordinator Monday. “We gave him his first warning after the whole Iraq and Afghanistan war diaries thing, and strike two was when he forwarded that video montage...
Dec 4th
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President Quote of the Day: 12.1.10
deadpresidents: “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.” — Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), 7th President of the United States (1829-1837), and a notoriously bad speller.
Dec 2nd
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“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards...”
– Voltaire
Dec 1st