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"I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world." This story's making the rounds today, for a very, very good reason:
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
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at 10:30 AM on March 28, 2008
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"I'm not sure the sight of
Obama Girl jiggling her junk in pink panties emblazoned with the letters OBAMA across the back is going to move voters in New Hampshire ... but damn, nobody's jiggling for Giuliani, that's for sure."
via,
also ...
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at 6:40 AM on June 15, 2007
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Draft legislation was published today
that proposes that fifteen parcels in the National Park System be sold off for "purposes of commercial and residential development." Many of the parcels are in Alaska, but one is Theodore Roosevelt Island park, developed to honor one of our country's most recognizable environmentalists. It seems
the Onion gives us the news from the future once again...Way to go,
DCist for breaking the story!
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at 1:57 PM on September 23, 2005
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Since 1994 Claymovie
has been producing clay animation movies with kids, adults, teachers, and professionals.
Here are some random clips of some of the funnier, unpredictable, unexpected and outrageous moments.
Watch the videos and see...you have to click [download movies], then go nuts. The really outrageous ones are at the bottom...try
Something in the Taters.
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at 1:35 PM on October 12, 2004
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Touching, sad, chilling account of obesity in America
People outside the US have this view of us as disgustingly, morbidly obese...and it can be true. This article from the Washington Post Sunday Magazine (free registration may be required) put a touching, terrifying, human face on one of America's biggest problems.
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at 6:37 AM on July 19, 2004
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Amazing action figure art
When I first saw the photos of this stuff, I thought they were taken from life. I've never been into war-toys based on humans, but this is really really breathtaking...
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at 10:23 AM on June 23, 2004
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The dulcet tones of Tulsa Drone
were a growing presence on the Richmond scene when I lived there...their new album is fantastic. They've been
described as cinematic and noir-ish by everyone that's heard them. Make your own decisions, but I'll be listening to them on my iPod when I dump bodies in the lake under cover of midmorning fog from now on.
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at 6:11 PM on March 24, 2004
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