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Content: clips and thoughts about politics, culture, more politics, entertainment, and whatever else catches my eye.
Sun Jul 12
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Annan Water by The Decemberists, off of their fantastic album Hazards of Love.

Tue Jun 2
And there were the female chimpanzees at the Tulsa Zoo that took advantage of a renovation project to steal the painters’ supplies, don gloves and paint their babies solid white. When confronted by their furious keeper, the mothers scurried away, then returned with peace offerings and paint-free babies. OMFG BEST ANIMALS EVER
In earlier experiments, both chimpanzees and monkeys that traded tokens for cucumbers responded negatively once they saw that other animals were getting a tastier treat — grapes — for the same price. They made angry sounds and sometimes flung away the cucumbers or their tokens, reported Sarah Brosnan, a psychologist at Georgia State University. god damn non-human primates are fucking awesome
Tue May 5
from Allison Arieff’s NYT blog: Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas.  The thing is a coffin!!!

from Allison Arieff’s NYT blog: Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas.  The thing is a coffin!!!

Mon Apr 27
Thu Apr 23
One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won’t exist when they grow up, while more than half—56 percent—worry that the planet will be a blasted heath (or at least a very unpleasant place to live), according to a new survey … On a sliding scale of anxieties, minority kids have it worst; 75 percent of black children and 65 percent of Hispanic children believe that the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood. via Treehugger.  The worst part is, these kids are probably closer to the truth than the rest of us.
Tue Apr 14

Sorry for the onslaught of posts, I’m trying to go through the seventy zillion tabs I have open, and coming across a lot of good stuff.  This, for example.

omg I’m crying

A 1965 parody of etiquette books illustrated by Edward Gorey; full scans are available here.

A 1965 parody of etiquette books illustrated by Edward Gorey; full scans are available here.

Scans of the comic “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” are available here.  It is creepy.

Scans of the comic “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” are available here.  It is creepy.