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It is a plan with literally no drawbacks. Everybody wins.

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@Laine

My favorites from my own adolescence: 1.) No two articles of black clothing may be worn in the same outfit. This would constitute being "goth." 2.) Black or red underwear or bras are expressly forbidden. Only girls who expect to show them off wear black or red underwear. 3.) No red nailpolish. The Queen of England says only whores wear red nailpolish. 4.) No black nailpolish. Also considered goth. 5.) No blue nailpolish. If I were to get into a car accident, the paramedics might think I was dead because my fingernails were blue.

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coolscar:

what we have is real

As of today, the U.S. has no decision-making power at UNESCO because of its failure to pay dues for the last three years. But the White House insists on keeping its membership and is racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

Starting Jan. 1, nearly five million people who were supposed to be covered under Obamacare won't be because their states have refused to expand Medicaid.

archaicwonder:

10th Century Viking Pendant of Thor’s Hammer

Cast with details added in silver filigree, the front decorated with a face mask at the top, the hair, eyes and mouth in spiral beaded silver wire, the nose a horizontal stripe of plain wire, the body bordered with lines of wire, with spiral motifs and applied dots in the field, pierced horizontally through the head for suspension on a thick ring with interlocking spiral terminals.

Valued at $8,000 - 11,000

medievalvisions:

Merovingian hoard.

This is from an amazing sci-fi photo based book my Chicago friend Justin Benzel is working on.  He has a kickstarter up right now.

If you like sci-fi mixed with noir mixed with old school Chicago gangsters then go check out the kickstarter.  Justin has put an unbelievable amount of work into this over a span of years and now it’s all coming to fruition.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justinbenzel/the-5th-dimension-0

vintagephotos18:

Portrait drawing of Jasta 11 pilots by Arnold Busch, July 1917.

beautiful drawings

The original first page of The Lord of the Rings.

A couple of months ago I returned to the Midleton distillery in Cork, Ireland, for a party they were throwing to celebrate the newly-expanded facility. I wrote a one-page story about it for November's issue of Tasting Panel magazine, which you can read here (digital magazine, go to page 149), but I have more to say than just that. I last visited the Midleton distillery in early 2011 (as well a a stop into the former distillery and current visitor's experience in Dublin). A write-up on that visit is here on Alcademics. The Midleton Distillery looks like it did a few years ago with the exception of gleaming new column stills and the new Garden Stillhouse. These are the new column stills: (On all pictures on this post, click the thumbnails on top for a larger picture below) The existing stillhouse (where the pot stills are based) holds four pot stills, which are used to make all the triple-distilled pot still products, as well as the pot still part of the Jameson blended whiskies. The brand new Garden Stillhouse, enclosed in glass, holds three new pot stills so that they can nearly double capacity- and it has room for three...

[Visit Alcademics.com for the full post.]

“"We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are perpetual and eternal and those interests it is our duty to follow.””

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From remarks to the House of Commons in 1848 by British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.

From the article “Choose Your Own Spying Adventure,” in The Atlantic.

Friends, this needs a punchline. 

My pick: 

"Come one, come all!" by Mondofunky

Nicely done. 

ellavrena:

BREAKING: North Dakota becomes first state to ban all abortions

hidden-agender:

And before people are like “lololol North Dakota who lives there anyway?”

You know what particular population North Dakota is higher than most in?

Native Americans.

And Native women have astronomical rates of violence and rape against them.

So basically people who dismiss North Dakota don’t give a fuck about these women.

Dear Japanese tourists,

Welcome to Portland. I'm honored that you've chosen our city as your vacation destination, however I would like to address one little thing; do not fucking insult us in Japanese. Some of us Portlanders, like myself, speak it quite fluently. I understand that I'm white as a sheet and don't look like it, but I understood all the crass shit you said about me. When you said my ass is huge, and you wanted to get lost in my crack, I understood that. When you said that I look like a cow and you wanted to drink my milk, I fucking understood that, too. You're rude as hell and that's why I called you out by the bus stop near Powell's. That look of utter shock on your face when you realized I understood you was absolutely priceless, and I could tell you were embarrassed as fuck. Good. I'm glad. And I'd be happy to call you out again if call me a dumb American (ばかアメリカン) again. Here's a suggestion, be a good little tourists, shove a voodoo doughnut into your mouth and unless you need directions, leave us the hell alone. 私はあなたの無礼が好きではありません!!! 日本に帰る!!!

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Group: Calif. transgender law repeal will qualify Fresno Bee In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, Karen England, executive director of the California Resource Institute, left, and volunteers Grace LeFever, center, and Christina Hill, sort through stacks of mail with petitions for a referendum to overturn a new ... and more »

Miley Cyrus's plea for relevancy continued as she took out a joint and smoked it after winning an award at the MTV Europe Music Video Awards.

Mike Bithell wrote a post, "On cliques," about his perspective on exclusivity in the indie game scene. I think the example he gives, of going to a party while not really knowing anyone and then getting upset when no one is dying to talk to him and then feeling foolish for getting upset, is understandable and human. I'm sure everyone's felt that way at some point. It sucks to feel like you don't belong.

At the end, he says everyone should talk more, and try to be more understanding of each other, and I think that's good. Let's all do more.

However, I've seen some other peoples' responses and takeaways that strike me as, uh, callous, or even poisonous.

"Don't start drama, because you're just imagining it, and my absurd incoherent illusion of one unified indie-love-kingdom melting pot utopia disneyland is more important than anyone's sense of self-worth," is totally the wrong mindset here, if that's what you're taking away from all this. Who gets to decide what's important and what's "drama" to be ignored by the community? Is that how you help someone -- by not believing them and then getting upset that someone had the courage to make themselves vulnerable?

The goal of talking about privilege in any sense is NOT to shame you into giving away all your wealth or whatever. Instead, the goal is just to get you to listen to someone who often gets ignored, and then consider teaming-up with them to share power and to try to solve a systemic problem, thus enriching both of your lives with the satisfaction of doing good meaningful work. No one's going to solve a problem definitively, but at least we can do our part to make it less terrible. No one wants your pity -- instead they want to stop feeling like shit, they want a seat at the table, and they want someone to take them seriously. This isn't a radical notion.

If you are completely satisfied with how things are and you don't think things could or should get better for anyone, then you're suffering from something more than a profound lack of imagination -- you could, quite possibly, just be an insufferable asshole.

(Hopefully you aren't an asshole.)

Rob Ryan is a man who knows what he wants when he sees it. And he sees the team that fired him standing on the other side of the field.

However, this is also the look Ryan gets before meals, with indigestion and right before ducking into a porno theatre.

Ted Cruz was a polarizing figure at Harvard Law, foreshadowing his partisan profile in the Senate.

Richie Incognito had context on his mind when he went on the Fox Sports pregame show with Jay Glazer on Sunday. The suspended Dolphins lineman defended his threatening messages to teammate Jonathan Martin by telling the cameras that was just how he and Martin talked to each other. The big revelation was supposed to be a text message Incognito received from Martin threatening to "kill his whol f'ing family."

Martin's attorney, David Cornwell, gave the world a little more context about that text message.

It was an internet meme, complete with a pet making a funny face.

JMart's text 2 Richie Incognito. U decide..... pic.twitter.com/IrgdNnhGe2

— David Cornwell (@wmdavidcornwell) November 10, 2013

Pundits keep trying to infuse every leaked message and player statement drifting up from the Dolphins locker room. Martin being too sensitive was a popular suggestion on talk radio and Twitter on Thursday. Incognito tried to ride that wave in a sit down interview with a man who he once paid to train him during the offseason.

Now there's more context to the story. Martin's text message, however stupid, ill-advised or sophomoric it may be, has an entirely different feel to it when it looks like something he might have pulled off a Reddit forum.

Context being key, a dog "smiling" with copy thrown over it doesn't quite measure up to someone threatening to take a dump in your mouth. Or forcing someone to pay for $30,000 trip to Vegas. Or even the suggestion of gang raping Martin's sister, as one message from an unnamed recipient revealed by Cornwell Thursday did.

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