May 2013
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With No Officers to Respond to 911 Calls,...
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April 2013
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Sitting around at 4 A.M. waiting for my coworkers/roommates to stop partying. Sometimes I wonder if there is an actual group that I fit in to.
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“And when we were good, you just close your eyes. So when we are bad, we’ll...”
– Marilyn Manson - “Fight Song”
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Does your background check ever show that I earned a bachelor’s degree? Does it put my years of teaching and coaching children and adults on display? Are the countless times I refused illicit drugs or avoided illegal activites ever considered? How about all the good things I’ve done?
Do you ever consider that I’m more than just a list of my past crimes?
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“I think I’ve finally had enough. I think I maybe think too much.
I think...”
– Pink- “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”
March 2013
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I found a container of lotion in my bathroom.
It claims to have Shea butter in it. It smells like rocky road ice cream. It’s kind of watery and doesn’t seem to work well.
I think someone poured ice cream into a lotion container and left it in my bathroom.
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The Onion: Supreme Court On Gay Marriage: 'Sure,... →
WASHINGTON—Ten minutes into oral arguments over whether or not homosexuals should be allowed to marry one another, a visibly confounded Supreme Court stopped legal proceedings Tuesday and ruled that gay marriage was “perfectly fine” and that the court could “care less who marries whom.”
“Yeah, of course gay men and women can get married. Who gives a shit?” said Chief Justice John Roberts, who...
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Moving
[[MORE]]When I was initially planning-out this move, I figured I would packing a few boxes into my car and driving away to a new life.
I was very wrong.
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Lounging
Sometimes, my cat lies on my desk, curled around my arm and stares at my computer screen while I scroll through Tumblr. I’m afraid that we may have the exact same amount of brain activity while we do this.
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Why Obama (And Any President) Fails To Meet... →
“We are taught that presidents are the center of government, and great presidents can make things happen,” says Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, a political scientist at the University of North Texas. “There’s this Rushmore view, and it’s a myth.”
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Obama has made mistakes, and, naturally, many Americans think his policies on issues such as tax rates and health...
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Anonymous asked: hey u seem really cool and i was wondering if ur a girl or a boy
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Never, in any of the courses I took to earn my bachelor’s, did I need to deliver a speech in front of a class. Sometimes I feel as though I graduated ill-equipped to handle any real-world situations.
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STATES CONSIDER SO-CALLED 'AG-GAG' BILLS:... →
In 2008, an undercover investigation exposed the malpractice of a California meat processor. investigation by the Humane Society of the United States uncovers abuse of downed dairy cows, cows too sick or too injured to stand, at a California slaughterhouse. What’s more, the meat is being served to children through the National School Lunch Program.
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That undercover investigation...
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Your Child's Fat, Mine's Fine: Rose-Colored... →
About 69 percent of American adults are overweight or obese, and more than four in five people say they are worried about obesity as a public health problem.
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Only one in five kids had a parent who feared the boy or girl would grow up to be overweight as an adult.
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In a series of brain experiments, Sharot has identified two areas in the frontal lobe — the left inferior frontal...
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February 2013
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Marissa Mayer, Who Just Banned Working From Home,... →
Human resources boss Jackie Reses sent out a memo telling all remote employees that, by June, they needed to be working in Yahoo offices.
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Mayer – who had a baby last fall – is a working mother, but she’s able to bring her kid to work.
That’s because when Mayer had her son last fall, she paid to have a nursery built in her office.
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