January 2012
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“Nobody should shrink from the accusation of blasphemy. It is a term of moral...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via fuckyeahchristopherhitchens)
A fine afternoon to take mushrooms and watch Les Miserables.
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Earth 'will expire by 2050' →
cultureofresistance:
Earth’s population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, according to a report out this week.
A study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to be released on Tuesday, warns that the human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life.
In a damning...
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“Facebook won’t be happy till it’s grown tendrils and wormed its way into...”
– Charlie Brooker (via gdotlentin)
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“Because what’s the point in them being happy now if you know they’re going to be...”
– Doctor Who (via saras-scrapbook)
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“I went to Prague once under the old days of the Communist regime. I thought,...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via merrycrassmas)
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“Have you come to judge me some more? I know that you know that I slept with JP,...”
– Fresh Meat
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If you’re the type of person who finishes an interrogation into one’s personal actions or beliefs with “…not that it’s any of my business,” please, do us all a favour and move that part of your rant to the beginning. And then forget to say the rest of it. And then take a vow of silence.
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“If I had a wrap of speed and a little bag of weed and some proper coffee and...”
– Vod, Fresh Meat
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“Life is like a movie: if you’ve sat through more than half of it and it sucked...”
– Doug Stanhope (via mickeyscrumble)
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“The people who are asking “is feminism skeptical” are not, in fact, asking...”
– Jason Thibeault, Is feminism skeptical? (or: are ninjas awesome?)
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“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands,...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via relinquishfaith)
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“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way as we should see if we were not always...”
– Albert Camus (via theweirdthewonderful)
“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005.
In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business. Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
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“Love’s not the way to treat a friend. There are so many better things for you...”
– Richard Brautigan: “I wouldn’t wish that on you”
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“So what do you do? You sit there anesthetizing yourselves together by watching...”
– Charlie Brooker, How TV Ruined Your Life
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“‘Slut’ is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say...”
– angels-and-angles (via flowerfistandbestialwail)
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“Why is evidence so complicated? Why do we need all these clever tricks, these...”
– Ben Goldacre, from his book Bad Science on the need for proper controls and procedures in clinical trials and the placebo effect (via doubtingmarcus)
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“I really very much need to be loved. I just don’t want to be popular.”
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Christopher Hitchens (via fuckyeahchristopherhitchens)
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“It’s pointless inventing supernatural powers and beings: once you admit that at...”
– Michael and Ellen Kaplan, Bozo Sapiens (via doubtingmarcus)
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“The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy (via relwordd)
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“Really, people are just looking for ways to transport cheese into their mouth....”
– Hannah Hart
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“I am a responsible member of a race that reached out into space and walked on...”
– James Randi, Flim-Flam! (via doubtingmarcus)
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