Here’s the Boston Globe liveblog. There’s been a third explosion at the JFK Library (no fatalities, according to the police department). “People in Boston” are being asked to stay home, or at least “out of large groups”. Google Personfinder here. Amateur video at the link, but I couldn’t figure out how to kill the autoplay, …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Not Helpful
(Non Sequitur via GoComics.com) . . I think most pet owners have contemplated this possibility at least once. But even those of us totting up the digits are in a better place than this guy: HYANNIS – An allegedly intoxicated man tired of his upstairs tenants arguing thought firing his gun inside his home would …
Open Thread: Ted Nugent Still A Gutless Blowhard
Whichever commentor — Schlemeizl? — started the Nugent Countdown Clock wins a cookie. Per Cord Jefferson at Gawker: One year ago today, draft-dodging, venison-fueled gun nut Ted Nugent pledged at a Missouri NRA conference that he would be “either be dead or in jail by this time next year” if President Obama were reelected. At …
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“Many have managed to convince ourselves that a ‘free’ society is one where nothing is free.”
Last Thursday, Adrian Chen sponsored a Gawker live chat with David Graeber: It’s been over a year and a half since Occupy Wall Street took over the streets and the internet. At the time, David Graeber was pegged as the “anti-leader” of the leaderless movement, a prominent scholar and activist in whom many of the …
Open Thread: “Does Texting Make Us Shallow, Or Are We Shallow So We Text?”
Asks commentor Suffern Ace: Texting Linked To Shallowness, Racist Attitudes …[A] new study shows that young people who text the most tend to be far more shallow and even more racist. Researchers at the University of Winnipeg surveyed more than 2,300 first-year psychology students over three years to test the “shallowing hypothesis,” described in Nicholas …
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Sunday Garden Chat: Promises, Promises
. From commentor Marvel: The bulbs are really having their way with us his year. After a warm and sunny week, Spring’s cool rainy pattern has returned to the Willamette Valley (OR) — happy to have had a chance to appreciate (and capture) some daffodils before they got too soggy. Here are a few of …
Saturday Evening Open Thread: Big Time Internet Glory
. . If the NYTimes hasn’t fallen victim to a “Roland Hedley tells Middle America about marijuana, using Zonker’s lilac bush as an example” hoax… … The video, titled “Drunk Makeup Tutorial,” is completely awesome to some, bewildering to others — and above all, classic Jenna Marbles, another installment from a reigning queen of YouTube. …
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