March 2012
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“If I wanted to pay money to see a black-and-white relic, I’d buy the New York...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, on why he didn’t see The Artist, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
haven’t seen it either.. but I’ll try. sometime.
February 2012
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“If a man prefers an expensive place to a cheaper one because he likes to sip his...”
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action (via ptbruiser)
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Meet Eve, the eight-year-old agony aunt →
cognitivedissonance:
Eve Hobsbawm is a London-based life counsellor. Make contact through her website – EveProblemSolver.com – and for a small fee she will send you helpful advice.
Two weeks ago, I got in touch: I had lost my keys, and was panicking about what to cook my friends. But I also couldn’t work out how Eve manages to run a business while attending school – since she is just eight...
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“A 37-year-old Vancouver man will stand trial for allegedly engaging in sexual...”
– Vancouver man to stand trial for bestiality | Canada | News | Toronto Sun, PDF
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“Facebook on Monday denied a news report accusing the company of reading text...”
– Facebook Denies Its Application Spies on Text Messages | PCWorld Business Center
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/two-killed-a... →
”In an act of heroism, they were precisely in the area of major risk in a
bid to extinguish a fire and they did not succeed,” Amorim said.
Navy sergeant Luciano Gomes Medeiros was also injured in the blast,
which occurred after a fire in a room housing energy generators of the
Comandante Ferraz research base located in Admiralty Bay, King
George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic...
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Cop impersonator vs prostitute →
How did she know? She probably knew the entire vice squad already.. :)
Police say a female sex trade worker was picked up by a man in a black
car on Jan. 27.
They allege the man told her he was a police officer and threatened to
arrest her if she didn’t perform a sexual act.
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Ontario Place to be closed →
Closing the park is expected to save the government $20 million a
year. But many Torontonians are opposed to the idea and are calling
on Queen’s Park to preserve Ontario Place as a public space.
“The premier has not rejected the privatization of these public lands
and that suggests to me that he is interested in selling them. That is
not something I support and that is not something I...
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“i think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of...”
– Bill Murray’s View on the Economy
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus (via apathie)
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“Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a...”
– Murray Bookchin (via americandissident)
Aww pobrecita comunista.
(via whakatikatika)
in other words, left meets right
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“I always thought I was a liberal, but I came up terribly surprised when I found...”
– John Wayne (1975)
I always thought this bastard was an asshole. Yet he’s so right here, it makes you wonder..
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“The circumstance that everything weak and in need of assistance speaks to our...”
– Daily Nietzsche: —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” §67.
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“Nick Nolte wasn’t very excited to be at the Oscars on Sunday....”
– Oscars 2012: Nick Nolte doesn’t really hang out with this crowd - latimes.com
I have yet to see The Artist, but it’s telling that the first Frenchman to ever win Best Actor wins for a role where he keeps his mouth shot.
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Hospitals can change that.. →
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital on Saturday with a long-standing abdominal complaint but relatives and officials said the 93-year-old former South African leader’s health is
good.
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Toy guns for your daughter can get you arrested →
Daddy, are you mad at me? Those were the first words out of the mouth
of a scared little girl to her father when he was released this week after
being charged with possession of a firearm because of a picture she
drew at school of a man holding a gun - which turned out to be a toy.
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Risk as feelings thesis →
bobulate:
Stanford economist George Loewenstein on how the brain makes decisions and something called the Risk as Feelings thesis:
He argued we overreact emotionally to new risks (which are often low-probability events), and underreact to those risks that are familiar (although these events are more likely to occur). So, as Loewenstein explains, “this is why people seemed to initially overreact...
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