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Just a brilliant scene from a brilliant flick: Peter Sellers in...

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:18:43 -0500

Just a brilliant scene from a brilliant flick: Peter Sellers in Lolita.

Rahm Emanuel Roasts Stephen Colbert

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:11:00 -0500

Best verbally abusive passage:

On Dana Perino: “Dana Perino is here, what an honor to be roasted by the spokesman for the president. Dana Perino, wonderful to see you. I always knew Scott McClellan would hatch into something beautiful. When you crawled out of the McClellan cocoon, did you have to devour the shell for nutrients or is he still lurking around someplace? … I loved it when you told Helen Thomas that the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner should have read, ‘Mission Accomplished For These Sailors Who Are On This Ship On Their Mission.’ I certainly hope you had a banner for that explanation. Do you get sore the next day after shoveling it that hard? I kid, I kid, but no, Dana, you are the one person who I don’t mind slamming me on this entire podium, because I know for the last year and a half you haven’t meant anything you’ve said.”

What Does the Spleen Do?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:30:30 -0500

What Does the Spleen Do?:

” Though the spleen and the “black bile” it secretes have had various meanings in the folk medicine of various cultures since ancient times, its actual functions remained a mystery until the mid-20th century.”

—ooh, isn’t that intriguing?

Dailymotion - GOOD: Military Robots Part 1, a video from...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:04:25 -0500

Dailymotion - GOOD: Military Robots Part 1, a video from goodmagazine. military, robots, good, magazine, robotics

SO GOOOD!: 8bit bEtty, “Reading Rainbow”

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:56:04 -0500

SO GOOOD!: 8bit bEtty, “Reading Rainbow”

"It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach..."

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:18:13 -0500

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It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to “bind me in all cases whatsoever” to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.

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- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis