February 2012
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January 2012
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Mayer Hawthorne - No Strings
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Up and down we go.: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
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you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The…
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We have so much foreign influence today. I’m looking at a Coke can with a polar...
– Comment made from an audience member at Santorum event in Iowa (via soupsoup)
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I’m sitting here, on my bed, ignoring the piles of papers and CVs and forms that needed to be completed yesterday because I currently have something on my mind I need to get out. My entire life, I’ve been one hell of an optimist. An over-worrier, a cryer, over-passionate but most of all I’ve always been optimistic. “Oh yeah, tomorrow is a new day and things will be better...
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melodysblog:
The Rape of the Samburu Women
“For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya. During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers. Yet,...
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Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see them articulated. But...
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ShortFormBlog: United Nations: Nine months in,... →
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5,000+ number of people the UN estimates have been killed in Syria since the current crisis started
300 number of children that were among the dead, according to UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay source
» An accelerating rate: In the first five months of the conflict —…
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Holy Ghost! covers Ministry’s 1980 hit, I wanted to tell her.
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Simply Sonia with an I: Date a girl who reads. →
sonsryan:
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll…
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