newsweek:

Ben Yagoda helpfully explains the most comma mistakes. 

[Illustration by Peter Arkle]

newsweek:

It’s kind of hard to see what’s going on here, but look closely. It’s a pic of the eclipse seen on a garage door in the Bay Area, and the leaves on a tree have formed hundreds of pinhole cameras. (h/t Andrew Sullivan’s blog)

brooklynmutt:

Before She Was The Rachel Maddow

Read/Watch: The Best Of The Maddow-Tucker Carlson Debates, Mediaite

folkinz:

Emoticons are so 2011. Winonacons forever.

thenoobyorker:

Let me preface this video by stating that here is nothing that I can come up with here that will do this video justice, it is 5 minutes and 17 seconds of genius. You’ll simply have to watch it for all of the brief remarks.

In the video, Rep. Luis Gutierez (D-Ill) takes “on the GOP and Mitt Romney’s characterization of Arizona’s onerous anti-immigration policies as a ‘model’ the U.S. should follow.” From the HuffPost,

And with this, the Congressman is off to the races, counting exactly how Arizona’s law is a terrible model for the rest of the country:

• “One, if you’re a politician, Arizona’s law is a model for how to achieve early retirement.”
• “Two, if you want to wreck your local economy, Arizona’s law is a model for lost jobs and tax revenue.”
• “Three, Arizona’s law is a model for how to energize Latino voters.”
• “Four — and I’ll stop at four because my time in limited — Arizona’s law is a model on how to make decent people suffer.”

Rep. Luis Gutierrez began his speech by stating well-known Latino demographics (the number one way to scare politicians) and then stating, “that’s a lot of people to keep track of, especially if you want to offend each and every one of them.” Can you feel the burn? I can. I hope it’s not a rash.

(via inothernews)

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nickturse:

New York City’s Lost Subways: A Ghost System Beneath the Streets

The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, but WNYC reveals “there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used.”  This ghost system beneath the streets “reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.”

Oh I love this so much.

a new island

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Thomas “Tennessee” Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)  was an American play write most noted for The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, andCat on a Hot Tin Roof.  I could talk about how beautiful his writing is, but lets just focus on how beautiful HE is.

nobodyknowswhatsgoinon:

Trying to better understand myself as a kid.

30 Things I Was Into in 1988 (age 11):

1. - Big Business
2. - The Bangles, Everything
3. - INXS, Kick
4. - The Accused
5. - The album cover of Prince’s Love Sexy
6. - Coming to America
7. - The Naked Gun
8. - Beetlejuice
9. - Saturday Night Live
10. - Terence Trent D’arby
11. - George Michael, Faith
12. - Belinda Carlisle (and the GoGos)
13. - Aerosmith video for “Angel”
14. - The party with the stacked TVs playing video loops in Less Than Zero
15. - Jody Watley’s earrings
16. - MTV’s Remote Control
17. - Tracy Chapman, Fast Car
18. - Tight rolled jeans and Bass shoes with the laces curled up in that way.
19. - White Lion
20. - Bull Durham
21. - Working Girl
22. - Hairspray (the movie)
23. - Bugle Boy Jeans
24. - A Different World
25. - Cool Ranch Doritos, Soft Batch Cookies & Coke (after school snack)
26. - The Wonder Years
27. - Professional Wrestling
28. - Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
29. - Tone-Loc
30. - MTV’s Half Hour Comedy Hour

All these things exactly minus professional wrestling.

thedailywhat:

This Is Funny, You Should Listen To It of the Day: Those self-centered brats who told their parents to f*ck off because they got the wrong color iPhone for Christmas may be fairly awful people, but this song Jonathan Mann composed using their distasteful tweets is hilarious, so I guess they’re not completely worthless human beings after all.

(NSFW, explicit lyrics.)

[trcb.]