December 2011
47 posts
handsandcurls:
girls night in, 2011
editing by Hannah Mandel
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It’s always like this.
I catch their scent and
old feelings come around.
...
– Xue Tao, excerpt from Peonies (transl. by Jeanne Larsen)
Barack Obama says that as the father of two daughters, he wants the government...
– Katha Pollitt on the HHS overruling the FDA on Plan B access. (via jessicavalenti
)
this isn't happiness.: The Most Hated Buzzword →
nevver:
think outside the box (16%)
circle back (15%)
synergy (14%)
it is what it is (13%)
touch base (13%)
at the end of the day (13%)
let’s take this offline (12%)
low-hanging fruit (11%)
value-added (11%)
proactive (10%)
paradigm shift (9%)
best practices (9%)
going forward…
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Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die
– Bashō, trans. Hamill (via yesyes
)
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Mayan tablet does not predict end of the world in... →
jesuisperdu:
The end is not quite nigh. At least that is the conclusion of a German expert who says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as others have read it.
The interpretation of the hieroglyphs by Sven Gronemeyer of La Trobe University in Australia was presented for the first time on Wednesday...