The Long Con. Regarding MattStopera’s BuzzFeed post, How Joe Biden Convinces President Obama To Do Things: I am quite certain Joe isn’t convincing Hillary of anything. He unknowingly is doing her bidding.
Kids, back in 2012, your aunt Robin wanted to do something more with her life. So she took her love of guns to an organization called S.H.I.E.L.D and fought alongside the Avengers.
Now, your Uncle Barney and I took it pretty hard; she was getting to spend a lot of time with another billionaire playboy, this guy named Tony Stark. Your Uncle Barney almost went crazy when he found out the guy had a metal suit.
“It shoots fireballs, Ted! He looks like a freakin’ storm trooper!”
Then your uncle Barney decided to fight back.
And Lilly showed up and was like, “I’m in a Joss Whedon thing too.”
ALL OF THIS
Next time, on a very special episode of HIMYM…
(via ifc)
LINE ITEMS Seasonal workers harvested asparagus near Elsholz, Germany, southwest of Berlin, Tuesday. (Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert / dapd via the AP / Wall Street Journal)
After studying this photo for several minutes, we still have no idea where asparagus comes from.
After studying this picture for several minutes, I have no idea what is actually being pictured…
It’s true! We just shot a West Wing reunion with Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Dule Hill, Melissa Fitzgerald, William Duffy and Josh Malina. Be excited!
Omg west wing fa life!
Etch A Sketch may not have a political position, but it knows when to capitalize on a trend involving its suddenly-popular product. (Click for more.)
hulu:
Daria & Jane would be 31 now. Trent would be 36 and Quinn would be 29. Wow, can you believe it? I sure can’t.
We can’t either. Time to dust off our old Mystik Spiral CDs and revisit Lawndale High.
I feel old.
Journal of a Journalist instead has an awkward mental picture of HS reunion chat between Daria, Beavis, Butthead and Mr. Van Drissen. Also, man, time flies.
Why do you find most of the forward thinking shows in the sci-fi genre? Star Trek, it brought you cell phones and social consciousness.
From The Archives: On March 16th, 2012, The Star Trek: TNG episode “The Outcast” marked the 20th anniversary of its initial airing.
The episode is particularly notable for being a bold, thinly veiled allegory for homosexual discrimination.
The J’naii, an androgynous humanoid race, once had two sexes, but has since “evolved” beyond genders. However, a small portion of the J’naii is still born with a “gender alignment.” These individuals subsequently develop an attraction to those who align with the opposite sex.
In “The Outcast,” Soren, a female-identifying J’naii born with an attraction to males, falls for Commander Riker, and he for her. When this is discovered, Soren is charged with perversion and brought before a J’naii tribunal where she (unsuccessfully) tries to defend herself and those like her.
Despite being penned a generation ago, the passionate, poignant excoriation uttered by Soren at her trial is, sadly, as necessary today as ever:
What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh. We complain about work. And we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families and we worry about the future. And we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things that you do with each other - that is what we do. And for that we are called misfits, and deviants and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?
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What about bluebook?The MLA has come up with a way to cite a tweet. But…not every academic uses the MLA format. Many social sciences use the APA format.
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal writes about the MLA’s approach to Twitter citation.
this is a phrase that pretty much completely describes my existence
Cat Breading: An Introduction
apparently this is a thing and not an unfortunate misspelling. i clicked through on the off chance this was someone looking too dip their cat in panko breadcrumbs and take pictures, however, it was not overly disappointing…
