February 2011
169 posts
January 2011
268 posts
chick-fil-hate →
Chick-fil-a is officially on the shit list. I suppose it makes it somewhat easier given that I’m off animules… but sorry folks… a dollar to the chain is a dollar to some very hateful people.
Bet Chick-fil-A wishes this month would end. Over the past few weeks, the restaurant chain’s deep ties to the anti-gay movement have been exposed and uncovered by a number of...
“There is nothing more seductive that the ‘one that got away’ fantasy that’s...”
– marriage counselor, Terry Real
vis-a-vis this story from this Daily Mail about the prevalence of social media in divorce proceedings…
An astonishing 80% of U.S. divorce lawyers report that social media evidence is now cited in divorce cases as one of the many reasons a marriage comes...
how egypt turned off the internet →
wolves →
Benny came to the birthday party because his mom had volunteered him to help supervise the children. He must have felt out of place being the lone teenage boy amidst a flock of over-excited six-year-old girls, but we welcomed his presence.
do nothing for two minutes →
headphones on, click the link, and back away from the keyboard and mouse. maybe better to do it at home…
literal captions to new yorker cartoons →
this is pretty damn funny…
Good News: Alcohol Doesn't Actually Kill Brain... →
is facebook making us sad? →
It's a catapult. It fires pot. →
“The researchers found that one new Walmart supercentre per 100,000 residents...”
– Montreal Gazette… reporting on a new study. (via The Consumerist). The research will be published in the March issue of the Journal of Urban Economics.
Is Eating Meat the Best Way to Fight Factory... →
This is an interesting discussion… because I’m as much for the ethics of being veggie as much as the sustainability I feel similarly to the guy who wrote this piece rather than the woman who wrote the Guardian story that prompted it.
life without left turns →
It sounds like a pain, but a avoiding left turn by making a right turn followed by a U-turn actually means fewer accidents and faster travel times.
I would be totally 100% behind this… cars taking left turns cause about 65% of motorcycle accidents.
When is beef not beef? Alabama law firm sues Taco... →
according to the USDA, Taco Bell’s “beef” is not beef… hell, it might not even qualify for “taco filling”…
