January 2011
Heathers vs Clueless
(5:12:24 PM) Surrock: ill keep it in my back pocket for when you really piss me off (5:12:47 PM) Me: as if I ever piss you off (5:13:10 PM) Surrock: what’s your damage? (5:13:27 PM) Me: triggered because I said “as if”? (5:13:31 PM) Surrock: yes (5:13:46 PM) Me: well done, but you’re mixing up your teen patois (5:13:51 PM) Me: “as if” is Clueless (5:13:58 PM)...
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Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287(g) State... →
If you’re interested in the immigration and criminal justice policies in Frederick, Maryland, this is mandatory reading.
287(g), as used in Frederick, is in practice just a good way to lock up illegals, regardless of the crimes they’ve committed. It has reduced by 60-some% the illegal Hispanic population of the county, but who knows where they’ve gone.
The Machinist: January 29, 2011 →
The Machinist has been moved to Saturdays to accommodate Neil’s springboard to his new advice-column career, Feed the Machine.
What happened this week? Yeah, we picked up photog supreme, Chris…
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Challenger
Everyone who doesn’t like space travel, you can stop reading now and kill yourself.
Okay, for everyone who’s left then.
On this day 25 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up in the skies over Florida. I was way too young to remember it, but I’ve learned about it a million times in elementary school and since. It was a tragedy in so many ways, but there’s one we...
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Rangers beat Caps 2-1 (SO), Offense M.I.A. →
Matt Hendricks celebrates his shoot-out goal. (Photo credit: Mitchell Layton)
Last time the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers met, well… it was bad. But we had higher…
Memory of Emmy
[Come home, find Emmy laying on the floor, looking sadder than usual]
“Pa?”
“Yes, muffin-top?”
“I ate sumfink I shouldn’a…”
“Uh huh?”
“You might have already noticed…”
[hissing sound]
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DONUTS
littleheat:
i want them
Well dammit now I do too. STOP POSTING PHOTOS OF DELICIOUS DONUTS.
The Machinist: January 21, 2011 →
This week we created the Russian Machine tumblr site. We promise never to post anything not completely pointless there. Hop on over, giggle at silly photoshop jobs, and carry on with your day.
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What is the "price of sex"?
From Tracy Clark-Flory’s piece for Salon:
A second measure is the number of sex partners that “sub-optimal men” have had. I define that group as men who are 22 years old, dropped out of high school and don’t have a fulltime job — men who don’t have a lot going for them. We compare the number partners they’ve had with the number of partners of a male...
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Actual conversation from the recording of the new...
“Hey guys. I’ve got an idea for the reunion album.”
“Go on.”
“Well, instead of writing actual songs, let’s just make everything sound like it’s happening inside of a garbage can.”
“Ooh I like that. It’ll be like the best possible EFF YOU to our fans.”
“I know, right? That’s exactly what I’m going...
The Dismemberment Plan, “Memory...
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Russian Machine Never Breaks tumblr →
Oh snap. It exists: the nexus of hockey and pictures of cute aminals. Tell your friends.