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May 06

» Some Republicans seek Democratic ballots | The News & Observer

Bartlett said he has heard about a dozen complaints, all in Wake County, from Republicans wanting to vote Democratic, though he suspects the situation is coming up in other places as well.

Earlier this year, conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh urged Republicans in states that allow crossover voting to cast ballots for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Limbaugh said he wanted to keep the Democrats fighting among themselves.

Great. What is this, a high school student body election? Using democracy against their own country… how Republican of them.

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Apr 30

anthonyking:

citizen: Dream ticket!

And they already accomplished their first major policy goal - Hansbrough is staying!

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Apr 24

“ If you count actually the votes I got in Michigan I’ve now been given more votes than anybody ever running for president in a democratic primary.

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-Hillary Clinton on MSNBC today

Good point Hill-Dog! Also, if you count all the votes I got in Wyomevada, an imaginary state I just made up whose primary was not recognized by the Democratic party and whose ballot had no other names besides Charlie Todd, I have the most votes of any person in the universe!

(via charlietodd)

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shootingelephants:

Carrboro, NC, May 2

I’m really bummed I’m going to be out of town for this.

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Apr 21

» PETA Split Over Push For Test Tube Meat

Attention meat-eaters:

‘[PETA] said it would announce plans today for a $1 million prize to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in-vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”’

However, not everyone in PETA agrees:

‘Lisa Lange, a vice president of the organization, said she was part of the heated exchange. “My main concern is, as the largest animal rights organization in the world, it’s our job to introduce the philosophy and hammer it home that animals are not ours to eat.”

Lange added, “I remember saying I would be much more comfortable promoting eating roadkill.”’

My opinion: Gross, either way.

Full article HERE.

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Apr 08

On friendship

doree:

I wrote a groundbreaking, v.v. important piece for this week’s Observer about Facebook’s ridiculous new People You Might Know feature.

All this new feature does for me is act as a daily reminder of several situations in which I am awkwardly/vehemently not friends with someone.

Take a hint, Facebook: There’s a reason we’re not friends!

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Apr 06

djdescribeseternity:

soupsoup:

twistedfork:

Fonstruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, for both Mac or Windows application.

awesome.

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Apr 02

This is Father Bob - the hip and irreverant priest at the Charlotte church I attended in my youth - and he has just been arrested for taking indecent liberties with a minor (who is now 24) in 1999 (I probably went to Catholic school with said minor). This is all getting pretty old.

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» Freelance Fizzle!

Doree Shafrir weighs in on the Decline and fall of the writer, and the magazine industry.

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Apr 01

» NY Times | Mad Magazine Fold-Ins, Past and Present

I’m not s superfan of Mad, but I do love interactive multimedia - and this is a neat feature on The New York Times website today.

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Mar 31

» Twitter grows in influence

“I’ve been doing A LOT more training and education on social media — both internally and with clients. This is a great sign that B2B companies really are believing that social media can’t be ignored….”

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Mar 30

charlietodd:

I love New York.

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Mar 28

» LOL Lost

[via Jezebel]

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» Why Kids Curse | NPR

This is great - The first time I said the F-word as a kid it was because I am awesome at remembering things like song lyrics and movie quotes and I really really loved Adventures in Babysitting when I was 5.

5-year-old-me was rehashing the scene when they’re in the subway with the dueling gangs. I perfectly quoted it all the way to the part when Elisabeth Shue steps in and says “Don’t FUCK with the babysitter!”

While I did get in trouble, and knew that I had said something wrong as soon as it came out of my 5-year-old mouth, my mom had to leave the room so she wouldn’t die from laughing in front of me which of course would have encouraged me to curse more.

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