December 2011
November 2011
“In 1751 he had a flirtatious adventure of another sort. He was swimming nude in...”
– From George Washington: An Illustrated Biography
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate sexy young Washington swimming naked in a river.
Awwwww yeeeeah (via foundingfatherfest)
“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be...”
– Image via Wikipedia
John Adams
(via politicalcrazyness)
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Cheap private schools outperform Government public... →
lendahandandliftme:
James Tooley began researching the reach and performance of private schools for the extremely poor in India and elsewhere. What he found was startling, and it bears directly and profoundly on the relief of extreme poverty all over the world.
In Hyderabad, a city of more than 6 million people, Tooley and his team—confining their search to poor areas lacking amenities such as...
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“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said. “I love you...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. (via riverran)
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Watchspanderson:
Day 12: A song you hate from a band you love.
Smashing Pumpkins- Tales Of A Scorched Earth. No one can deny: there were some awful freaking songs on Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, but this one takes the cakes. Billy Corgan’s vocals sound like a pig being dismembered inside a vacuum cleaner while on fire.
I love this song with all my heart.
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Watchskepttv:
The Safety of Sitting Ducks
Curious observers have noticed for centuries that ducks sometime sleep with one eye open, but had never really looked into why or how. Neils Rattenborg, a neurophysiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, is particularly interested in this phenomenon. While watching the ducks at his lab, he noticed this peculiar sleep pattern in a new light and...
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Oh hey
There are things you’ll never know about me,
So many things that I have learned
Things that make me hate
and things that make my stomach churn
See there’s this burning need inside of me
To slit some people’s throats
To watch them squirm and try to scream
As their worthless lives implode
Maybe in those last few seconds
The hopeless fucks will see
that they...
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