February 2012
16 posts
In Pursuit of Certainty: All bread items should be... →
urtah:
All bread items should be sold in ziploc bags. How many times have you thrown away a decent amount of bread or had to eat gross hard bread because it dries up? And here is the thing - it only takes one little hole in the package where the bread gets exposed to air for it to dry up. It is so EASY…
Sleepily relayed dream which Urte had last night....
Text of Urte’s dream from last night. “We had travelled back in time but our house was destroyed and we were walking on the pandas because the pandas had dens underground and we wanted a panda baby and someone said that we should try and get a panda baby and i said “the pandas are gonna think that’s mean and be protective of their babies! dont do that!” then they...
On leaving Edinburgh
It is pretty easy to get tired of being in Scotland. I find the grey and homogeneity of Edinburgh depressing often, actually, about as much as I find it beautiful and magical. Leaving is always something I look forward to.
That is, until I am actually headed to the airport.
Ryan Air likes to schedule early flights, so whenever I am headed to the airport, it is usually at the crack of dawn. To...
Jon Huntsman Calls for the Rise of a Third Party -... →
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday, Huntsman called for the rise of a third party, saying another option in presidential politics “would be a healthy thing.
“I think we’re going to have problems politically until we get some sort of third party movement or some voice out there that can put forth new ideas,” Huntsman said. “Someone’s going to step up at some point and say...
“[TW: Rape] Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Obviously I agree that this bill is fucked up, but it isn’t the personhood bill. It’s the trans-vaginal...
In Pursuit of Certainty: Top Republicans consider... →
urtah:
Today’s Politico Playbook from Mike Allen has some very exciting tidbits:
“A tippy-top Republican, unprompted, yesterday sketched the germ of a plan for a new candidate if Rick Santorum upsets Mitt Romney in the Michigan primary on Feb. 28. Our friend brought visual aids: chicken-scratched…
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I'm now tweeting! Follow me here (if you care!) →
I like to be active on the internet, but I’ve been having trouble finding the right forum to do so. Tumblr doesn’t reach out to enough of my friend group, although it allows for longer posts and thoughts, and Facebook reaches out to too many, although it allows for discussion and responses. I worry that I’ve been posting too many statuses lately and that I’m getting a bit...
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What is Russia's interest in supporting Syria?
In response to Russia’s veto of the anti-al-Assad regime resolution at the Security, Urte and I began to question why Russia would even have interests in promoting influence in the Middle East.
The Cold War is over, and so is the competition between the universal ideologies of the Soviet Union and the United States. It doesn’t make sense for Russia to seek influence in all parts of...
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library....”
– Lady Bird Johnson (via ourpresidents)
