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November 2011
November 29, 2011
November 28, 2011
Kenny G and Miles Davis and Nancy Reagan
Above: Kenny G and Miles Davis.
Miles Davis upon meeting First Lady Nancy Reagan: "Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"
Picture via vinyl4giants.tumblr.com, Nancy Reagan quote via www.kungfugrippe.com
November 27, 2011
November 26, 2011
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November 24, 2011
November 23, 2011
Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
Bill O’Reilly: “First of all, pepper spray -- that just burns your eyes, right?”
Megyn Kelly: “It’s like a derivative of actual pepper. It’s a food product, essentially.”
Slackstory has launched an online petition to have Megyn Kelly "“eat or drink a full dose of pepper spray on national television.”
via thedailywh.at
November 22, 2011
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November 16, 2011
Patient: Bruce Wayne
Patient: Wayne, Bruce
DOB: 2/16/1971
Occupation: Industrialist
Insurance: Self-pay
Interval History: Patient was seen for his last annual physical approximately one year ago. Since that time he has had numerous visits for acute illnesses or injuries, generally accompanied either by his companion Mr. Grayson or Alfred, a senior member of his household staff...
Orthopedic: By far the greatest contributor to patient’s ongoing morbidity are his multiple and seemingly ceaseless musculoskeletal injuries. The most significant of these was sustained several years ago, when he was rushed to GCGH with several fractures of his lumbar vertebrae, reportedly after falling while rappelling. Skeletal series obtained at that time revealed numerous (>20) areas of orthopedic injury in various states of healing, which could not be fully explained by recent fall, including areas of all extremities and many ribs; confirmatory bone scan similarly showed many areas of increased uptake.
Patient’s robust stature is not consistent with osteogenesis imperfecta, and skin biopsy was negative for abnormal collagen and P3H1 or CRTAP genetic defects. Malignancy was suspected, but eventually ruled out following oncology consultation. Patient explained most of these (and most subsequent) injuries as being the result of membership in a private and apparently quite intense mixed martial arts club. Patient has denied being the victim of domestic abuse by Mr. Grayson following indirect and direct questioning on numerous occasions.
From ordinary-gentlemen.com via jwz.org
image from www.geardiary.com
If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
- In Congress Assembled, UC Davis edition
- Perspective on police brutality
- If you're not doing anything bad you have no reason to fear...
- Percentage of Millionaires: Why is tax policy so hard to change?
- We Are The One Percent!
- Batman: "I am the 1%"
- “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”
- James Madison spoke against concentrated wealth
- If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality
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Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
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optimists and pessimists attribute the reasons for success and failure differently: it's personal for pessimists. - ITMFA
- Does pessimism soften the blow of bad news?
Science says yes, but that it isn't worth it. - Creative Commons
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