December 2011
WatchThe Jean-Ralphio Supercut
0:57 for hot dance moves
Some things I will do more of next year:
ski more
play more board games
cook more fish dinners for women
Okay, I'll bite... here are some of my favorite...
Found my drafts folder, so why not.
GQ on farming and undocumented workers
The Daily on Las Vegas
The Morning News on KidZania, a corporate sponsored theme park
The Awl on Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand
The Awl on Chris Kanyon’s doomed quest to be wrestling’s first openly gay star
Mother Jones on secrets of the tax prep business
Maura Johnston on the chartbeatification of the news...
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TEN HOT WRITERS WHO I HAVE NEVER HAD DRINKS WITH...
I was going to post my favorite long form articles of the year, but the more I see what’s popping up on Longreads, the more I realize that it’s probably just redundant. Lots of good lists! So here’s a list of writers I like. They all have Twitter accounts except for one.
Irin Carmon - Great coverage on Mississippi’s personhood bill.
Maria Bustillos - Very happy to see...
“After taking some heat in January for a Golden Globes hosting stint that some...”
– Splitsider
I feel like I helped enable Ricky Gervais’ ego and I’m sorry.
Ciudad Juarez and the drug war in Mexico is the... →
10,000 dead in the last four years, in walking distance to the border.
(via soup)
WatchEnterprising reporter Joey Junior interviews the Blackhawks for the holidays. Ladies, I hear he’s single!
Yes, I will be telling everyone about this...
Me: They were dipping their potato chips in salsa!
Mom: o_O
Five minutes later…
Me: They were dipping their potato chips in salsa!
Dad: D:
A dog at this party has an anxiety disorder.
NEW FAVORITE DOG
Red State founder makes a suggestion on how to... →
Threaten the supporters with primaries.
This is a solid idea! Unfortunately, I don’t think that liberals have the guts nor the organizational capacity to pull it off. I’d love us to put any amount of pressure on the DNC in advance of the Presidential election, but I don’t see it happening.
Here are a few articles you might want to read. ...
Reuters on phantom firms bleeding money from Medicare
Michelle Dean on the struggle for the OWS archives
NYT on Amazon Mother Jones interviews Maria Popova of Brain Pickings Mother Jones on fact-checking (via dlbrows) Wired on the curse of Cow Clicker (via GMSTR)
Maria Bustillos on Firefox and Google
walkwhilereading asked: Big game for my Nuckers tonight, really starting to feel it again about my club. What's your thoughts, you think they can make the long trip back again this year.?
TEN NOTABLE SANDWICHES OF 2011:
Thursday/Saturday Special from Fiore’s in Hoboken, NJ - Still the best.
The Guido from Bagel World in Brooklyn - Chicken cutlets, roasted peppers, mozzarella, Italian dressing
#18 from City Sub in Brooklyn - Cajun spiced roast beef, pepper jack cheese, mayo, lettuce, tomato, onions
Pork Belly Cuban from Bunk in Portland, OR
Crawfish Po’Boy from Oddfellows in Hoboken
Double Shack...
Please stop linking to Courtney Stodden...
Thanks!
“To reform an evildoer, you must before anything else help him to an awareness...”
– Alfred Polgar. “You must help him to an awareness…” Derision is not help; brutal exposure of perceived logical errors is not help; sarcastic decimation of straw-men is not help. Also: neither agreement nor acquiescence nor victory are synonymous with awareness.
This relates to a previous post on...
Congratulations to Edith Zimmerman for not being... →
Lots of hot white people in media in a slideshow!
THIS IS A MONKEY RIDING A DOG AT HALFTIME IN...
matt-t:
Whiplash!
Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public... →
osmium:
youngmanhattanite:
Hitchens was obviously more urbane and well-written than the average neocon faux-warrior, but he was also often more vindictive and barbaric about his war cheerleading. One of the only writers with the courage to provide the full picture of Hitchens upon his death was Gawker‘s John Cook, who — in an extremely well-written and poignant obituary – detailed...
interweber:
azealiabanks:
“Liquorice” -...