Goat Eyes
Eustace P. Toffeynuts III, "Goat Eyes: Satanic ploy, or merely horrific crime against nature?"
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These are irrelevant opinions on friends' opinions, on spare time, on issues ranging from the demise of culture (sparsely) to amusement about minute and annoying details (often), and on the world in general. You might be bored, since this blog only exists because there are other blogs, too.
YOU WATCHED IT. YOU CANNOT UNWATCH IT!
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"AB-InBev sells off theme parks for $2.7 billion
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Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, the world's largest brewer, said Thursday that it will raise $2.7 billion from selling its U.S. theme parks to the Blackstone Group. The sale of three SeaWorld parks, two Busch Gardens parks and five others is the largest of a string of AB InBev selloffs to help pay for the $52 billion takeover deal that formed it last year."
"CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009
By ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) – 21 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday.
The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White House and its allies in Congress as they press ahead with health care overhaul legislation that could cost $900 billion over the next decade.
The unprecedented flood of red ink flows from several factors, including a big drop in tax revenues due to the recession, $245 billion in emergency spending on the Wall Street bailout and the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then there is almost $200 billion in costs from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill, as well as increases in programs such as unemployment benefits and food stamps.
The previous record deficit was $459 billion and was set just last year."
"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1985 -- A bomb dropped by a police helicopter burned down an entire block, some 60 homes destroyed, 11 dead, including several small children. The police, the mayor's office, and the FBI were all involved in this effort to evict a black organization called MOVE from the house they lived in."
The Police Commissioner, Gregore Sambor, said tonight that it was was his decision to drop the charge, a square package of explosives designed to destroy a bunker atop the house and drop it through to the second floor. He said the charge succeeded in eliminating the threat from the roof, but touched off the fire. Steve Harmon, a resident of the area, said: "Drop n bomb on it residential area? I never in my life heard of that. It's like Vietnam."
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wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
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Kauai sunset: Lumix GH1 slow motion from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
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“The shortest path to oneself leads around the world.”
So wrote German philosopher Count Hermann Keyserling, who believed that travel was the best way to discover who you are.
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Since the 1990s, many affluent children seeking admission to selective colleges have been discouraged from paid work, and steered instead toward volunteer service projects. Rebuilding homes in New Orleans or teaching English in developing countries, seemingly better résumé fodder, supplanted after-school or summer jobs scooping ice cream or answering phones.
“There’s been such a push to demonstrate to colleges that they’re involved with activities and charities that it’s almost too pedestrian to say that work is part of what I do,” said William S. Miron, the principal at Millburn High School.
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"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."
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Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.
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In der gegenwärtigen (akademischen) Textkultur kommt es offenbar systematisch zu Texten, die nicht selbst geschrieben wurden und auch nicht von anderen gelesen werden. Der Text bleibt somit von Produktion und Rezeption relativ "unberührt".
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Well, I adore this girl. Or rather, her blogging side.
One less academically nerdy, but nonetheless (or even more, for that matter) glimpse into some intellectually introspective, interculturally attentive, and (bla bla bla)... Forget my puny attempts at commenting. Read Zombie Therapy; and stick to your seat. Don't laugh out loud if at work.
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Askese ist deswegen keine Lösung, weil in unserer Gesellschaft die Teilnahme am gesellschaftlichen Leben über die Waren vermittelt wird, die sie anbietet. Und weil es ein Webfehler der kapitalistischen Warenwirtschaft ist, zusammen mit der Entdeckung der Möglichkeiten, den Schrottkonsum zu demokratisieren, werden die meisten von uns auch weiterhin Geräte benutzen, die tendenziell immer weniger kosten, immer mehr können und immer häufiger kaputt gehen - ob wir das wollen oder nicht.
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