President of The United States Barack Obama meets local dignitaries at the #NATOSummit2014 reception hosted by The Prince of Wales.
You ever wonder what a group of indignitaries would be?
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Can you imagine for a moment that you woke up one morning to hear the news of one of our nation’s largest international airports essentially being held hostage by some brown gun-wielding anti-government madman with a name like Muhammad Ali (or Aziz Ansari) walking around with a high-powered rifle shooting and killing innocent people as they simply waited to board their flights inside the airport terminal?If that hypothetical scenario did ever occur, do you think that the vast majority of Americans would have any problem at all labeling the aforementioned situation an act of “terrorism”?
Of course not.But in reality, it was a 23-year-old white man named Paul Anthony Ciancia who took his anti-government political ideology clearly into the realm of ‘terrorism’ when he inflicted mass violence aimed at instilling terror within the general public as thousands of innocent airline travelers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) feared for their lives one sunny Friday morning.
Another thing: the piece has this...
it was a 23-year-old white man named Paul Anthony Ciancia who took his
If an Italian American is white, what does that make an Arab-American or an Asian-American like the author?
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Louis C.K. on language and race.
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frequency of letter usage on a computer keyboard visually
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Poor z and x in the bottom left are as flat as a 10 year old white girl
...hmmm...as flat as a 10 year old white girl...help me, Tumblr, what is wrong with this phrase?
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But, having lived most of my adult life among them, experience tells me that when it comes to the explanation of poverty and wealth libertarians are close cousins to conservatives. It’s my view that this shared sense of robust agency and individual responsibility for success and failure is the psychological linchpin of “fusionism”—that this commonality in disposition has made the long-time alliance between conservatives and libertarians possible, despite the fact that libertarians are almost identical to liberals in their unconcern for the conservative binding foundations. That’s why controversial “social issues” like abortion and gay marriage are generally pushed to the side when libertarians and conservatives get together. As long as they stick to complaining about handouts for poor people sitting on their asses and praising rich people working hard to make civilization possible, libertarians and conservatives get along fine.
Fusionism Add that to your dictionary.
Source: bigthink.com
what kind of cockamamie word is reimagined? Which dictionary did you find that in?
thanks for being so permissive, Merriam-Webster
The Neo-Fascist Efforts not to say "Gay"
It's not just a Tennessee thing; this is an organized effort by neo-fascists to dehumanize the LGBT community.
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I tend to be late to the party with most cool, new web services*, which means I only just started using Evernote today. I remember trying it over a year ago but not feeling like I’d have a use for it, but I recently read someone mentioning that it was a useful way to keep track of where you find...
Looks a lot like Catch, which has been working fine between my Android widget and the web interface, but I'll try this too. Gotta say that Evernote tickles my fetish for installed, non-web clients.
The use of curation is a mighty big stretch of what I thought the word was about. CK uses it in the same way I'd say "keeping track of my little shit." Anyone else want to nominate curate for Words That Have Jumped The Shark in 2011?
Source: diegueno
Using "illegal" creates hate by exploiting racial fear and economic anxiety, creating an easy scapegoat for complex issues, and OK-ing violence.
no, "eatery" is not a word in a dictionary
I can't stand the invented word “eatery” There are 2 restaurants in San Diego that use it to describe itself - I really try to avoid them. One of them started to follow me on Twitter. Sorry, but you're really piquing at my autistic side - can't follow back.
I'm glad that The Daily Nexus, the news organ (sic) of my alma mater can teach us new words.
Now, only if they could get political hacks that are more original than to use last week's talking points.