February 2012
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A Black Butterfly and Her Muse: i wonder how you... →
ablackbutterfly:
i wonder how you can go through life committed to being oppressed because one love failed and one love won’t let you go while one love is trying to believe and I wonder silently if self deprecation is the armour you wear to protect yourself from what once was and what may never be I wonder if it shields you from actually believing in the slightest of possibilities that this...
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“If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you’re a...”
– President Obama will host the second annual White House Science Fair in Washington tomorrow.
“Fourteen year old Joey Hudy from Phoenix, Arizona is already a Maker Faire veteran,” reads the White House press release.
“He invented an Extreme Marshmallow Cannon and an LED Cube Microcontroller...
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Penalizing the poor via food →
I don’t understand why people feel so smug in penalizing poor for being poor. When it comes to food stamps, it’s hateful. So many say, “They’re abusing MY tax dollars!” Are they?
“Like the welfare drug testing law, there seems to be little evidence suggesting a need for the food stamps bill. Ebony Yarbrough, a food and nutrition programs coordinator with the...
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January 2012
86 posts
Tumblr needs a ‘hide’ button.
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foursquare foul :( - NY Tech Meetup (New York, NY)... →
vbbeachbum:
“My good friend and neighbor had his foursquare mayorships revoked last week. He is a retired, life-long New Yorker whose wife passed away three years ago, and shortly afterwards lost his faithful companion, his dog. This led to my friend’s self-imposed seclusion in his UWS apartment for almost two years. Last year he bought his first smartphone. I would meet him most morning in the...
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