January 2010
63 posts
“Usually, when I want the opinion of a multiply-concussed, bible-thumping, former...”
– A comment on metafilter re Tebow’s anti-abortion superbowl ad
(h/t BConger)
'Damages' - Pie, Then Confession: Madoff Case as... →
Season 3 of this stylish legal thriller begins on FX on Monday with New York’s scariest litigator, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), setting her sights on a crooked billionaire, Louis Tobin (Len Cariou). Tobin is under house arrest for a Ponzi scheme that bilked billions of dollars from investors.
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It’s impossible to overestimate how delicious [Glenn] Close is as this fiercely driven,...
Subject: People Luke Kim knows
My friend Abbie, who is my 3-year-old friend Luke’s nanny, sent me this story and it made my whole life:
Today on the way to school Luke tried to convince me he knew all the people. I mean ALL the people. On the way home we started discussing this, trying to explain the amount of people living in the world is not easy when the highest number within in the child’s understanding is...
NPR's got Beach House's "Teen Dream" on First... →
lazymansload:
I’m loving it, but you should have assumed that. I might make my first Coachella trip just to see this band. Completely inappropriate setting, I know, but love makes us do stupid things.
Now that I’ve heard this, I think I’ll go to the Beach House/Washed Out show on 4/29 wrapped in a blanket and roller skate around the Earl in slow motion.
Our Basic Human Pleasures - Food, Sex and Giving |... →
Brain scans by neuroscientists confirm that altruism carries its own rewards. A team including Dr. Jorge Moll of the National Institutes of Health found that when a research subject was encouraged to think of giving money to a charity, parts of the brain lit up that are normally associated with selfish pleasures like eating or sex.
The implication is that we are hard-wired to be altruistic. To...
Watchaewsome:
This is my day job. Please watch tonight at 10 PM on FX, so that I will not lose said day job.
athensmusicandarts:
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biggray:
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A Chat With David Boies, Lawyer for Plaintiffs... →
The headline in Margaret Talbot’s New Yorker story out Monday asks: “Is it too soon to petition the Supreme Court on gay marriage?” It’s also a question that’s been asked by others who oppose Prop. 8 — whether you and Ted are rushing into this in a way that’s doomed from the start, that there’s no way you’ll get five votes from the Supreme Court. How do you respond to those critics?
It’s not...
Stream the new Spoon album →
(via matt-t)
The Basics of Property Tax Appeals in Georgia →
(via gds923)
Every homeowner absolutely should be doing this. April 1. DAMN THE MAN!
Retrofitness, 1980's-themed gym, comes to Atlanta →
do what now?
matt-t:
roxlymoonbeam:
ABX - The XX Gon’ Give...
