February 2012
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The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have...
– Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
"I can’t believe I burned down a tree older then... →
This is so sad. Humans are stupid.
motherjones:
26-year-old Sarah Barnes’s alleged response to allegedly burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world—a 3,500-year-old, 118-foot-tall bald cypress—while (allegedly) on meth. Barnes is allegedly from Florida.
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2012 Oscar Movies as Portrayed by a Very Cute Baby
THE ARTIST.
Just… go here. Now. (War Horse might be our favorite.)
[By Maggie Storino starring Baby Sophia]
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Why teaching journalistic ethics is only the start... →
It’s all about what happens when you get on the job - as I learned during my first job after graduating j-school.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
– Montesquieu
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Love After Love
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. ...
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Me from Myself -- to banish
Me from Myself — to banish — Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart — But since Myself — assault Me — How have I peace Except by subjugating Consciousness? And since We’re mutual Monarch How this be Except by Abdication — Me — of Me?
Emily Dickinson
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of...
– Helen Keller
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Your position is pivotal, I ain’t bullshittin you
– Talib Kweli
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untitled: My respect for the people at 4Music has... →
tessamaelye:
Look at my last reblog, 4Music posted this report about how Barbie would be “classed as anorexic if she were a real person” even though Anorexia is an eating disorder, so therefore is a mental condition and not a weight class. 4Music reblogged and replied, and said they’d look into changing the…
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PBR beard keytar, cliche cillum est commodo marfa put a bird on it. Dolore...
– Lorem Ipsum for Hipsters (via @joelkarnold)
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When I made The Devil Wears Prada, it was the first time in my life that a man...
– Meryl Streep, on how men view her roles (via nprfreshair)
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become...
– Lao Tzu
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Mixed reviews
Apparently, I’ve been getting “mixed reviews”… Well, no one interesting ever gets all great reviews, do they? No. They don’t.
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