June 2012
41 posts
“If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over...”
– Simon Jenkins (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
Yes, please boycott Oreo for their support of Gay...
The Physics of Toilets →
jtotheizzoe:
How a rush of water, a carefully placed tube that you can’t see and the physics of water cohesion and siphons keep the canoes running downstream:
“Toilets have three major components. The first is a bowl. We all know what that’s for. The second is a tank. We can all see that. The last is behind the bowl, in that little tube from whose bourn - hopefully - no traveler returns. That...
Romney: "Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits...
abaldwin360:
The CBO said this about the health care law back in 2010: It lowers the deficit, by about $124 billion over 10 years.
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“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
TJ is my favorite prez. Behind JFK
“Cheese crumbs, spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the...”
– Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (via babydali)
Ha!
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee (via sirmitchell)
“I would teach how science works as much as what science knows. I would assert...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires....”
– Robert G. Ingersoll (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
god im so miserable without adderall.
“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos....”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via thescienceofreality)
I know exactly how he feels.
(via jtotheizzoe)
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, those who...”
– Lord Byron (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and...”
– In 1928, Jackson Pollock’s dad wrote a letter to his son. (via laphamsquarterly)
Happy Father’s Day!
(via jtotheizzoe)
“When you are trying to create a version of yourself that will one day make you...”
– NPR and Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich, in his commencement address to the College of the Atlantic. It’s about designing your life, getting up when you’re knocked down, and learning for life.
It’s called “The Chumbawamba Principle”. Read the whole thing. It’s simply wonderful.
(via jtotheizzoe)
I’m so fucking bored right now, and I have no motivation to fix that. Not allowed my adderall today, and my wife is passed out from drinking like a champion last night.
Climate Change: North Carolinians Hope to Stop It... →
Legislation would just plain do away with global warming.
Government: too big or not big enough. It’s a hot-button issue this election season. Lots of politicians think that government has gotten too big and powerful and needs to be cut down to size. Others see government as an agent of good and argue for more governmental power. Apparently nowhere is the latter sentiment more alive than...
