January 2011
New Showcase: New Zealand →
Check out the new showcase from pictoryblog… They’ve used one of my photos/stories!
“Philadelphia is not a place you want to be.”
– Glen Beck, who is clearly butthurt that Philly radio waves no longer carry his awful show. Philly doesn’t want you to be here either, Glen. Now don’t let the door hit you on the way out, jackass.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
NYT Well Blog | Does Exercising Make You Drink... →
The New York Times Well Blog discusses results of recent studies, including a survey published in The American Journal of Health Promotion, which found that
“heavy drinkers exercise about 10 more minutes per week than current moderate drinkers and about 20 more minutes per week than current abstainers.”
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Washington Post | Glock pistol sales surge in... →
“Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols — popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters — flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.”
Don’t Reload. Don’t. →
Stop. Talking. Hate.
[…] If you’re a parent, don’t wish ill on another if there’s a chance your child will hear it. If you’re a blogger, don’t wish ill on another if there’s a chance someone will read it. If you’re a television personality don’t wish ill on someone at all. Because you are speaking to disturbed people just by virtue of the size of your audience. You don’t not have the...
“I think it’s important for all leaders, not just leaders of the Republican Party...”
– Representative Gabrielle Giffords in a March 2010 statement about violent political rhetoric. Chilling, in light of today’s events. (Quote via maxistentialist)
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New...”
– Benjamin Franklin