February 2012
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I cried watching Bound For Glory
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How To Intelligently Present Yourself To The World →
As once(1) a movie character said “They keep finding new ways to celebrate mediocrity”, (2) and seeing how much true and applicable it is to your existence as a social being, why not using the language of the learned to present the whats and hows of you to the world? These are the whats and hows of you in Latin(3):
1 Ego viator, cepi imagines, populus wowed , populus subpono, tunc vita est etiam...
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To My Old Master →
IDK how true the content of the letter is, whether there has been rewording or something, but the message this delivers…
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my...
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featherlibra replied to your photo: I have received two of these so-called submission….
Nope, I got some too, just delete them and it should be fine :)
Yeah still they’re coming eh? :)
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Currently listening to 10CC, doing some typing,...
Don’t need no Oscar. Got me my best movies of all time.
Nothing can take the sting out of the economic crisis like watching millionaires...
– Billy Crystal (via oldfilmsflicker)
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It is a very hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking,...
– Agatha Christie (The Man In The Brown Suit-1924)
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The imperial way: US decline in perspective →
Fear of democracy could hardly be more clearly exhibited than in this case. In January 2006, an election took place in Palestine, pronounced free and fair by international monitors. The instant reaction of the US (and of course Israel), with Europe following along politely, was to impose harsh penalties on Palestinians for voting the wrong way.
“For 35 years the US has led the rejectionist...
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The USA and Somalia are the only two countries that have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Click this to sign the petition urging US to sign.
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Half the story: What @IDFSpokesperson leaves out... →
As far as data on Israeli projectiles sent into Gaza, this is the information Leibovich and the Israeli military don’t want to reveal. We’ve got a very good idea, however, of most of it since the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) keeps detailed data on casualties in Palestine. By querying this database we can quickly learn a great...
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Creature of conscience →
His most recent campaign - along with his animal welfare group Don’t Eat Friends (DEF), NGOs and celebrities - is a protest against Guizhentang Pharmaceuticals, one of China’s largest bear-bile producers, which is about to make its initial public offering.
He plans to build online support for a ban on the bear-bile industry by organizing volunteers in major cities across China,...
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Let's say you run for President; fourth gif with...
fyeahlilbitoeverything:
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Is this like my re-election campaign for the Tumblr Base?
I can dig it.
I need this job, voters!
*burp*