SeanBest

"Seems like either Bieber will get trampled by fans, then they will chop his body into pieces to sell..."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:44:01 -0400

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Seems like either Bieber will get trampled by fans, then they will chop his body into pieces to sell on eBay, or a few tweens might crush each other while trying to reach the Biebinator. From what I understand, tween skulls aren’t ‘fully developed’, so they are easier to crush. They basically have ‘the soft skull’ of an infant, since they are still learning how 2 use social media.

Worried that JBieber’s ‘peen’ might get ‘chomped off’ by a tween girl who doesn’t know how to ‘give proper blow jobs.’

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- Hipster Runoff, on Justin Bieber fans rioting in a mall parking lot

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as..."

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:14:05 -0400

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

- Jack London (via cocknbull)

via Passive Aggressive Notes

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:20:17 -0400

via Passive Aggressive Notes

"New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying “You either love me or you hate me”. There’s..."

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:59:57 -0400

“New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying “You either love me or you hate me”. There’s actually a third option: We don’t give a shit about you.”

- Bill Maher (via fuckyeahbillmaher) (via schbank) (via cocknbull)

World Cup celebration in Toronto. Via Sam Javanrouh. Full...

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:21:47 -0400

World Cup celebration in Toronto. Via Sam Javanrouh. Full photoset is excellent and it is here.

Earlier this week my (almost) two-year-old daughter met her...

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:49:32 -0400

Earlier this week my (almost) two-year-old daughter met her newborn sister.

(Yep, I’ve become a mommy blogger)

lkm: Northern Lights over erupting Icelandic volcano | Mail...

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:58:30 -0400

lkm:

Northern Lights over erupting Icelandic volcano | Mail Online

"When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the..."

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:43:00 -0400

“When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated. This is where the bee stings come in: A person with one bee sting is highly motivated to get it treated. But a person with multiple bee stings does not have much incentive to get one sting treated, because the others will still throb. The more of a painful or undesirable thing one has (i.e. the poorer one is) the less likely one is to do anything about any one problem. Poverty is less a matter of having few goods than having lots of problems.”

- The sting of poverty - The Boston Globe (via rabsteen)

jhnbrssndn: seanbest: My second daughter, born earlier...

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:50:43 -0400

jhnbrssndn:

seanbest:

My second daughter, born earlier today.
We’ll leave aside, for the moment, the fact that you were tweeting while mum did all the heavy lifting, and just say congratulations!

I just stood at the top of the bed and kept my fool mouth shut. The nurses get to run the show—not the husband who got everyone into this mess in the first place. It has been one helluva day and god bless the strength of my wife.

My second daughter, born earlier today.

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:49:33 -0400

My second daughter, born earlier today.

3 wounded in Castro shooting

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:34:36 -0400

3 wounded in Castro shooting:

vruz:

—via ryking:sv:

Anybody who thinks it’s “safe” to be gay because it’s The 21st Century or because Will & Grace ran for 7 years is so fucking full of shit it’s coming out their ears. It used to be kind of a joke that you’d be safe as long as you stuck to the larger cities in any particular state, but that is a huge misconception in The 21st Century. My own city has seen a couple of bashings lately. It’s happening in San Francisco, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle… you search for this stuff and it just goes on and on. And for what gets reported, there’s probably 10 times as much which doesn’t.

I’m not sure we’ll ever tip the scales. Public opinion is one thing, but the more accepted we become, the more that fringe groups will hit, hate and murder us. Religious extremism is on the rise throughout the entire world, and it is, if not the source of hatred for us, the excuse which allows it.

I don’t mean to sound or be paranoid, but it rarely becomes a story that somebody fought back during a gay bashing and won. I don’t know about you, but I was bashed enough as a child that I fear for the safety of the next person who tries (thank you, Courage Wolf).

Shit like this is why getting out of the fucking bed every day is a political statement. Going out in public and getting on with your life and wearing a smile when you are utterly fucking miserable is a plane skywriting FUCK YOU in the face of bigots worldwide. It’s all the more reason why Pride celebrations are important. And why you should be yourself even when everybody wishes you were someone else.

"When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said: ‘At least the handle is one of us.’"

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:05:36 -0400

“When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said: ‘At least the handle is one of us.’”

- Turkish proverb (via cocknbull)

“Stuff Nobody Told Me But I Learned Anyway”

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:57:00 -0400

“Stuff Nobody Told Me But I Learned Anyway”

Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:50:53 -0400

Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam:

AKRON, OH—Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police Sunday, charged with conducting an elaborate “sex-for-security” scam in which she allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in cash, food, clothing and housing over the past 19 years using periodic offers of sexual intercourse.

“It’s the biggest scam of its kind I’ve ever seen,” Akron police chief Thomas Agee said. “We’re talking coats, dishwashers, jewelry, sewing machines, bathroom cleansers—you name it.”

Yep, I still love the Onion…

My little girl, Caleigh, and I.

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:45:03 -0400

My little girl, Caleigh, and I.

(via Toothpaste for Dinner)

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:22:30 -0400

(via Toothpaste for Dinner)

"I’d like to join in on the blame game that has come to define our national approach to the ongoing..."

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:56:50 -0400

“I’d like to join in on the blame game that has come to define our national approach to the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This isn’t BP’s or Transocean’s fault. It’s not the government’s fault. It’s my fault. I’m the one to blame and I’m sorry. It’s my fault because I haven’t digested the world’s in-your-face hints that maybe I ought to think about the future and change the unsustainable way I live my life. If the geopolitical, economic, and technological shifts of the 1990s didn’t do it; if the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 didn’t do it; if the current economic crisis didn’t do it; perhaps this oil spill will be the catalyst for me, as a citizen, to wean myself off of my petroleum-based lifestyle. ‘Citizen’ is the key word. It’s what we do as individuals that count.”

- Op-Ed Columnist - This Time Is Different - NYTimes.com (via lkm)

"The meta-narratives that postmodernists decry (Marx, Freud, and even later figures like Althusser)..."

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:34:35 -0400

“The meta-narratives that postmodernists decry (Marx, Freud, and even later figures like Althusser) were much more open, nuanced, and sophisticated than the critics admit. Marx and many of the Marxists (I think of Benjamin, Thompson, Anderson, as diverse examples) have an eye for detail, fragmentation, and disjunction that is often caricatured out of existence in postmodern polemics. Marx’s account of modernization is exceedingly rich in insights into the roots of modernist as well as postmodernist senibility.”

- David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 115 (via newleft) (via jhnbrssndn)

Ross Ching, “Running on Empty” I live in Los...

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:08:28 -0400

Ross Ching, “Running on Empty”

I live in Los Angeles. I drive in Los Angeles. I think about traffic a lot in Los Angeles. A few months ago, I discovered Matt Logue’s Empty LA photographs. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but every time I was stuck in ~~rush hour~~ all-hour traffic, I found myself thinking, “What if tomorrow everyone’s car disappeared.”

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"Think of all the actual security you can buy for that money."

Mon, 31 May 2010 12:55:12 -0400

“Think of all the actual security you can buy for that money.”

- Schneier on Security: Canada Spending $1B on Security for G8/G20 Summit in June (via lkm)