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  • Where were you when the world stopped turning that September dayOut in the yard with your wife and childrenWorking on some stage in LADid you stand there in shock at the site ofThat black smoke rising against that blue s…

  • I saw a news report last night that really really upset me. The report started with a surveillance video of about a dozen well-dressed guys walking into a liquor store in Oakland. I saw the nice suits they were dressed…

  • 1. dankster link send redefine 23 thumbs up Someone who sells marijuana and also possesses gangster like qualities. Literally a combination of dank and gangster. "ayo let me holla at my nigga for that zip…

  • I love pictures. Pictures capture little moments in time. Sometimes they give me the opportunity to see something that I otherwise would not have been able to see (such as Nate's catastrophic steeplechase dive). Mor…

  • I just saw a preview for The New World, the most recent retelling of the John Smith/Jamestown/Powhatan/Pocahontas story. Nothing I'm very compelled by or interesting in seeing, but near the end of the preview one of the…

  • Scary jail. This is really messed up. It's amazing that something this bad can happen when people are supposed to be in government custody. A friend of mine had to spend a week in that jail last summer, and he said it…

  • Blechity afternoon. School actually was pretty fun today - worked on some problems, dropped some eggs from buildings, took some pictures, watched a short video, had some good interactions with students. Then at 3:35, I…

  • "Who will grant me to find peace in you? Who will grant me this grace, that you would come into my heart and inebriate it, enabling me to forget the evils that beset me and embrace you, my only good? What are you to me…

  • I think I've written these St. Augustine quotes on here in the past already. But I'm reading it again and they are really good, so I'm going to give them their space. When we think of the past as being so different fro…

  • Grant me to know and understand, Lord, which comes first: to call upon you or to praise you? To know you or to call upon you? Must we know you before we can call upon you? Anyone who invokes what is still unknown may …

  • Sometimes I like randomly mentioning people who really impress me. This kid is one of them. Being one of the best football players in the nation is only a small part of who he is.

  • blech. So I was already not happy about running into the union vice-president the day after measure 75 lost (although I had been fairly pessimistic already). Then I had to happen upon him in this conversation: Mr. M: …

  • This is one of the few articles I've seen that's actually tried to trace who put together the levies and was responsible for the conditions that made Katrina a disaster. They managed to do this without just trying to us…

  • If you liked Michael Brown (former head of FEMA) before, you'll love him after this article. Make sure you read all the way to the fashion stuff. It would be ridiculously funny if people's lives weren't lost as a resul…

  • I sent my dad 3-4 of the Ender books on June 4th for his birthday (he had never heard of Orson Scott Card before). He talked to me on the phone yesterday and mentioned that he had 24 of his books now. For a rugged outd…

  • This is a deep social commentary. I know it seems like it's about sports, but it's about a lot more than that. So bear with me. Charlie Weis is the coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Weis has coach…

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