January 2012
Strawberry
A traveler, fleeing a tiger who was chasing him, ran till he came to the edge of a cliff. There he caught hold of a thick vine and swung himself over the edge. Above him the tiger snarled. Below him, he heard another snarl and behold, there was another tiger, peering up at him. The vine suspended him midway between two tigers. Two mice, a white mouse and a black mouse, began to gnaw at the vine....
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
socialformsandsocialtypes: The problem facing education in America isn’t the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad.
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I don't understand... →
deepchocolate: NYC has some of thee WORST public schools in the country. Some of these schools have a graduation rate of nearly 30%. Why is this number so low? For several reasons. Most of the kids that attend these schools are minority students but within this group more than half of the students are African-American. Some of the communities these kids come from are low-income meaning that...
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Happy 89th Birthday Stan... →
dcwomenkickingass: Last year I attended NYCC for the first time this year and while the lines were certainly not as horrible as the ones I’ve heard about at SDCC, they were long. As we snaked around a giant empty basement warehouse there was a mixture of excitement and tedium as the line inched forward….
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Dumb Puppet Sonic
chickenoverlord: dumbrunningsonic: Richard DaLuz I lol’d
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Bane easier to understand in... →
dcwomenkickingass: Tom Hardy’s line as Bane in the the second trailer for “The Dark Knight Rises” had many people scratching their heads. Word broke last week that Warner Bros. and Nolan already discussing the need to fix the Hardy’s dialogue but it seems that the fixing has already been done in some of the…
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Christmas: Then and now...
theangryblackwoman: Then: Now: http://thatfunnyblog.tumblr.com/ twas my life yesterday! lol 
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“Our research shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of...”
– Human Rights Watch - “Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs”  (via fuckyeahdrugpolicy)
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This is crony capitalism.
ldsgeek: Crony capitalism - a capitalist economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials.
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Listenbobafettuccine: Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ and...
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CBS Evening News...
..Just heard a reporter use the word “Swag” in his report.
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Listenwhyamiwearingpants: Smells Like Teen Spirit —...
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