January 2012
55 posts
The Most Badass Excerpt From Barney Frank's...
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
Interviewer: I thought you might explain why you support decriminalizing it but don’t smoke it.
Barney Frank: Do you think I’ve ever had an abortion?
I need...
to get a lot better about waking up.
I keep telling myself - Rae! You can’t sleep past 10.
Failure - Failure - Failure
This bed is too comfortable to ever want to leave,
and my dreams are just way too interesting…
great day...
started a tradition of ‘family’ dinners on tuesday and it got me so stoked.
but coming home - with my massive workload - the stress began to hit
the happiness of the day washed away
and i am left with the creeping tide of dread, and loneliness
felt only in empty apartments, long after sunset
when the only sound is the internal jangle of heat in radiators
and your own steady...
World's Time Keepers Will Decide The Fate Of The... →
npr:
The International Telecommunication Union’s Radiocommunication Assembly, otherwise known as the international authority that keeps close tabs on time, will debate a philosophical question this week: They will decide whether to eliminate the leap second and in doing so break its tie to astronomical time.
A leap second is a lot like a leap year, reports the Financial Times, except that...
last first day of college
today my final semester at emerson college is about to start
it is the first semester that has not involved me waking in a panic, or running close to late on the first day. in fact i’ve been up for a couple hours now and still have over an hour to kill before i even have to leave for downtown.
this winter break will be the one that i look back on at the best of my college career, hands...