August 2012
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Why do I always get so antsy and weird about...
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Page 1A: At the Republican Convention, the Words... →
I would just like to point out that (so far) there has been more mention of God (62 times) than Obamacare (15 times), healthcare (11 times), limited government (5 times) and the middle class (4 times). Further indication of what the GOP really stands for?
hopeinfestsinmybones:
Happy first day of learning, Clark humans.
And a very happy first day to those who are members of the class of 2013. Try not to worry about life post-grad too much today, okay?
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Page 1A: Americans Throw Away 40 Percent of Our...
From the Atlantic Wire:
A new study says that the American food chain is so wasteful that roughly 40 percent of all our food goes uneaten, because we basically just throw it in the garbage. The report, which was issued by the National Resources Defense Council (via Reuters), looks at inefficiencies throughout our entire food production system — from the farm to stores to homes and restaurants —...
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Page 1A: The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy
From the New York Times:
At first, [Todd Rutherford] advertised that he would review a book for $99. But some clients wanted a chorus proclaiming their excellence. So, for $499, Mr. Rutherford would do 20 online reviews. A few people needed a whole orchestra. For $999, he would do 50.
There were immediate complaints in online forums that the service was violating the sacred arm’s-length...
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Page 1A: A New Guide to the Republican Herd
From the New York Times:
Six years ago, as the Republican Party was headed for a historic electoral drubbing, Republican voters belonged to a number of distinct, boisterous camps: several strains of social conservatives; broad anti-regulation and anti-tax blocs; hawks supporting the Afghan and Iraq wars; moderates who shunned the culture wars.
That motley crowd has morphed into a more unified and...
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This is one of those moments where I really hate...
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Everyone in my life needs to keep reminding me...
These strangers keep approaching me with more work and commitments and honors. It is like candy, I am a small child, and they are the man in the unmarked white van my parents warned me about.
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I watched the latest episode of the Newsroom
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…and the show has its moments, but I have to say that the “troll” storyline is completely, mind-numbingly awful. The guy has to become a level two troll? Seriously?
Also, I don’t think the mock debate made any sense. Why have all the producers study their characters for months if all you’re going to do is show them getting torn to shreds (fairly or not), and thereby scare off...
If the world were a village of 100 people
Fifty would be female and 50 would be male.
Twenty-six would be children and 74 would be adults, 8 of whom would be 65 and older.
There would be 60 Asians, 15 Africans, 14 people from the Americas, and 11 Europeans.
Thirty-three would be Christians, 22 Muslims, 14 Hindus, 7 Buddhists, 12 people would practice other religions, and 12 people would not be aligned with a religion.
Twelve would be...
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I forgot how uncomfortable the beds are at school.
Too bad I live too far away to bring my pillowtop mattress to school.
Too bad bringing said mattress to school is against school policy.
(See! I did learn something new at training.)
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As I'm unpacking my room,
I keep thinking to myself:
What were you on when you packed?
I mean, really, self. Your jean jacket, a water bottle, sticky strips for pictures, a wash cloth, and the tripod for your camera in the vacuum box? How is that logical?
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Page 1A: The Elephant in the Map Room
From Boderlands:
The network of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is by now so dense that a unilateral Israeli withdrawal seems utterly implausible. The religion-inspired obduracy of a large segment of the settler community would make even the smallest concession unthinkable. If a final settlement is reached, present circumstance suggests it will be imposed by Israel on an...
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Testing
I took the GRE this morning and left feeling fine about my scores. My preliminary scores weren’t the highest but they were pretty high up there. Math was, of course, lower than reading but neither score was terrible. I really shouldn’t worry about these things as much as I do.
Now off to finish my application to grad school!
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I'm starting to think my wisdom teeth are haunting...
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Read the first chapter of "Frozen Heat" by Richard... →
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Page 1A: If Maeve Binchy had been a mother ...
From the Telegraph (UK):
All novelists who have had children are acutely aware that the very best of our sex — Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontës, Virginia Woolf — were childless. We all worry about doing two things badly rather than one thing well. Some novelist mothers, such as Antonia White, have been denounced as monsters of indifference by their children. I myself have a stern rule...
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“For people who are gay or support gay marriage, I get how seeing thousands of...”
– Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show”
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Page 1A: Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework
From the New York Times:
It is not true that my book “Guns, Germs and Steel,” as Mr. Romney described it in a speech in Jerusalem, “basically says the physical characteristics of the land account for the differences in the success of the people that live there. There is iron ore on the land and so forth.”
That is so different from what my book actually says that I have to doubt whether Mr....
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“I can’t tell you much more about the customers today, because of my limited...”
– Thats more from our anonymous gay Chick-fil-A employee who is speaking out after yesterday’s record-setting sales day for the chicken company. Bigotry sells! (via newsweek)
At this point, I think I was better off leaving my...
Oh, the pain.
