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May 18

“Man that was weird. I just wrote an extremely detailed comment but after I clicked send my comment didn’t show up. Hmmm… well I’m not typing all that again. Anyways, just wanted to say fantastic blog!” — And it would be so much more convincing if you didn’t submit it 16 times in three slightly different wordings, all to the same post.

May 16

May 15

Seems to me he should protect his family before hunting and shooting them, but I’ve never really understood Republicans’ stand on gun rights, so that could just be me.
(via summersumz)

Seems to me he should protect his family before hunting and shooting them, but I’ve never really understood Republicans’ stand on gun rights, so that could just be me.

(via summersumz)

I doubt that estimate includes time for vomiting and wailing in disgust.

I doubt that estimate includes time for vomiting and wailing in disgust.

May 14

“Failure of nerve,” my father had once said, the words hard, soothing candy in his mouth.

“That’s a good phrase for it,” I said.

“I didn’t make it up.”

“No, but it’s still good. I usually just tell myself I’m a pussy.”

“Me too,” said Daddy Miner.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.  

        - Home Land by Sam Lipsyte

May 11

via Pragmatic Progressive

via Pragmatic Progressive

via @DJNoRequest

via @DJNoRequest

Now that he's running for president, Mitt Romney is sorry that he bullied and physically abused gay kids in high school, but he still thinks you're second-class citizens. -

(Source: sonofbaldwin, via redjeep)

May 08

Exitmusic: "Passage" -

Loving this urgent, mournful, noisy record. Free stream on NPR.

Apr 27

Even the trains in italy are beautifully designed.

Even the trains in italy are beautifully designed.