“ These (GOP) debates… they have jumped the shark. Because last night — I swear to God — the Republicans talked about three things: deporting Mexican grandmothers; building a colony on the Moon that could become the 51st state; and how Obama is out of touch.
What is Kraftastic?
Only the most Kraftlike person you'll ever meet......uh....i guess that would be me....or anybody with Kraft as a last name....so i would assume alot of people are Kraftastic.
January 30, 2012
You Can’t Transmit Illness via Tumblr, right?
Because it’s looking like half of #Education is so sick they are calling off school.
Keep that nonsense away from me.
Let’s keep a Tally.
I’m 1 for tomorrow.
Chalk another one to the list… although mine is due to a combination of a hurting hip, a ups order and a pile of reading i need to do for class.
6 hours ago • 16 notesCan we take a moment and pause and reflect, today is the 64th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. With all of the anger and hatred that is permeating our society today I think his message of non violent passive resistance is truly a message worth listening to. To my friends within Occupy take his lessons and grow from them, you can effect massive change through peaceful means no matter what the oppressor is facing you with.
6 hours ago • 2 notesKermit and Miss Piggy respond to Fox News allegations that the Muppets push “a dangerous liberal agenda.”
Miss Piggy quips, “It’s almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of being, you know, news.”
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
12 hours ago • 1,003 notesCharacter Corner: Community - Best of Shirley (Season 1) (by tvgirl17)
Once a bully and an alcoholic, now a devout Christian mother and proud African-American woman/”racist-prover”, Shirley Bennett will alternate between sassing and guilting-tripping you. She’s hidden her past lives well enough considering the very apparent rage issues lurking under her very pleasant disposition.
She started taking business classes at Greendale Community College to market her brownies after her split with her husband (with whom she’s since reconciled). A housewife finding herself later in life, she’s gotten the chance to grow into a more tolerant person through her loyalty to her eclectic, spiritually diverse study group and her maternal instincts often come into play with them as well, often in touching ways.
Passive aggression, meddling, and ambiguous Halloween costumes aside, Shirley is a complex character on a very complex program. Being so demographic-heavy, she could have been a recipe for stereotypical disaster but she’s given some of the funniest lines on the show just like all the other characters. She’s nice.
for Emily
12 hours ago • 155 notes
“ I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
TwentyFourBit: Jack White Solo Album, Blunderbuss, Announced
Jack White unveiled big news about his long-awaited debut solo LP this morning: Blunderbuss arrives on April 24th via Third Man Records/Columbia, preceded by lead single “Love Interruption,” available for pre-order now and to stream below.
As the announcement notes, guest performers…
I can not wait for this!
15 hours ago • 49 notes
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The Flaming Lips (featuring Erykah Badu & Siri the iPhone 4S App) - Now I Understand.
“Wayne, I don’t understand the Moon, the Stars, and the Sun.”
Perhaps the best use of Siri ever.
Saving this for later…need to check out the lips and Erykah!
15 hours ago • 30 notes
15 hours ago • 478 notesJared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Reader Submission: Title by GQ contributor, Dennis Tang.
See the original Better Book Title for this book here.
Accurate.
January 29, 2012
January 28, 2012
Real Time Farms tells you exactly where your food came from | Grist
Real Time Farms is a “crowd-sourced online food guide” that tells you exactly where the meal on your plate came from.
As crazy as it sounds, our vision is to collectively document the whole food system.
That does sound crazy, but so does the notion that a bunch of volunteers would build the most comprehensive and frequently updated encyclopedia in human history. And that one seems to have worked out okay.
Real Time Farms is in its early days, so only a tiny fraction of restaurants, farmers markets, and their fans have imported data on where ingredients are sourced. It feels like the kind of thing that will require a really big technological solution at some point in the future, like DNA barcoding of food or super cheap RFID tracking of crops from field to fork. Or maybe just more of us moving to Portland.
reblogging for two reasons
1.) This is a cool idea
2,) New World is roughly a ten minute drive from my childhood home.
(via emergentfutures)
2 days ago • 110 notes
January 26, 2012
“ We’ve become a country that values shareholders over citizens, and it’s this whole bullshit about corporations are people. They’re not. … that’s what’s gotten crazy. You can’t be a person if other people can’t kick your ass.
January 24, 2012
“ One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the SEAL Team took with them on the mission to get bin Laden. On it are each of their names. Some may be Democrats. Some may be Republicans. But that doesn’t matter. Just like it didn’t matter that day in the Situation Room, when I sat next to Bob Gates – a man who was George Bush’s defense secretary; and Hillary Clinton, a woman who ran against me for president.
All that mattered that day was the mission. No one thought about politics. No one thought about themselves. One of the young men involved in the raid later told me that he didn’t deserve credit for the mission. It only succeeded, he said, because every single member of that unit did their job – the pilot who landed the helicopter that spun out of control; the translator who kept others from entering the compound; the troops who separated the women and children from the fight; the SEALs who charged up the stairs. More than that, the mission only succeeded because every member of that unit trusted each other – because you can’t charge up those stairs, into darkness and danger, unless you know that there’s someone behind you, watching your back.
So it is with America. Each time I look at that flag, I’m reminded that our destiny is stitched together like those fifty stars and those thirteen stripes. No one built this country on their own. This Nation is great because we built it together. This Nation is great because we worked as a team. This Nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard. As long as we’re joined in common purpose, as long as we maintain our common resolve, our journey moves forward, our future is hopeful, and the state of our Union will always be strong.
All that mattered that day was the mission. No one thought about politics. No one thought about themselves. One of the young men involved in the raid later told me that he didn’t deserve credit for the mission. It only succeeded, he said, because every single member of that unit did their job – the pilot who landed the helicopter that spun out of control; the translator who kept others from entering the compound; the troops who separated the women and children from the fight; the SEALs who charged up the stairs. More than that, the mission only succeeded because every member of that unit trusted each other – because you can’t charge up those stairs, into darkness and danger, unless you know that there’s someone behind you, watching your back.
So it is with America. Each time I look at that flag, I’m reminded that our destiny is stitched together like those fifty stars and those thirteen stripes. No one built this country on their own. This Nation is great because we built it together. This Nation is great because we worked as a team. This Nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard. As long as we’re joined in common purpose, as long as we maintain our common resolve, our journey moves forward, our future is hopeful, and the state of our Union will always be strong.
