February 2012
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“Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the...”
– The New York Times, “Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant is Revived”
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“India - monsoon and marigold, dung and dust, colors and corpses, smoke and ash,...”
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I'm getting really irritated listening to Rick...
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“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we...”
– LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG, The Hidden Beauty of Pollination (TED)
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WatchIn which Stephen Colbert puts a condom on a banana and then guillotines it.
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“So when you use contraception you are not only sinning, you are cockblocking the...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report
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“President Obama is an anti-religious zealot. Which is surprising, since he is...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Mr. Black: How will you feel in bed tonight if you don’t get on the ferry?
Oskar: Heavy boots, probably.
Mr. Black: And how will you feel if you did?
Oskar: Like one hundred dollars.
Mr. Black: So?
Oskar: So what about while I’m on the ferry? What if it sinks? What is someone pushes me off? What if it’s hit with a shoulder-fired missile? There won’t be a tonight tonight.
Mr....
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“The Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted 66-32 in favor of defining...”
– Reuters, “Anti-abortion personhood bill advances in Virginia”
We’re seriously arguing birth control in this country? Birth control that ninety-nine percent of women have used at some point? Listen, I’m as pro-choice as they come, but I’m gonna give you pro-lifers a...
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“You know things are rough when a Harvard economics grad has an easier time...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, speaking about Jeremy Lin on The Colbert Report
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Woah, woah, woah, stop.
Just saw a tattoo that was grammatically incorrect and I think my heart skipped a beat. Fucking really? You’re gonna get something inked on your body permanently and you’re not going to bother to CHECK THE FUCKING GRAMMAR AND SPELLING? What kind of world do we live in?
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“First of all, when the Nazis came for people, they also left with them. It...”
– JON STEWART, The Daily Show.
He’s talking about the comparison of Obama’s insurance reform, which is creating controversy over its coverage of contraception, with Hitler’s war on Judaism. I fucking hate the Hitler metaphor. Unless you’re talking about actual genocide and...
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“What the hell, America? I leave you alone for one week. ONE WEEK!”
– JON STEWART, speaking on The Daily Show about Rick Santorum’s sweep of last week’s primaries.
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“So we’re not gonna dwell on the weekend’s sad news, the passing of...”
– JON STEWART, responding on The Daily Show to CNN’s candid-camera approach to reporting on Whitney Houston’s death.
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“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on....”
– JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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I overheard a couple people talking politics or religion (are they different nowadays?) or something the other day and one of them asked the other “what do you think of the Westboro Baptist Church?” My first thought? “I don’t.” I just don’t, I don’t think about them, unless of course I’m forced to think about them when they pop up in an internet...
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“The 21st century is going to be a time of enormous challenge for agriculture...”
– Union of Concerned Scientists, “8 Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture”
Occupy Monsanto.
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Man, it would not suck to go through life looking...