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December 22, 2009
Goodell and the league will now embark on an effort to sell a slickly packaged three-hour slice of Sunday violence while simultaneously “doing no harm” to its players. Can NFL doctors serve the league and uphold the Hippocratic Oath? Doesn’t take a Mayan calendar to see that this will not end well.
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December 18, 2009
Thanks to significant medical advances, illnesses such as cancer and HIV are increasingly becoming chronic conditions rather than terminal illnesses,” said Doris K. Cope, M.D., member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Committee on Pain Medicine, Professor and Vice Chairman for Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of the Interprofessional Program on Pain Research, Education and Health Care, University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences.
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December 16, 2009
Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of the paranoid science fiction genius Philip K Dick, isn’t happy about the new Googlephone.
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December 15, 2009
43 Facts about 44 Presidents →

yaldabaoth:

5. James Monroe once chased William H. Crawford, his secretary of the treasury, out of the White House with a pair of red hot tongs from the fireplace. Crawford gave Monroe a list of people he wanted considered for “political patronage,” and when Monroe informed Crawford that his list was not needed or wanted, Crawford called the President “a damned infernal scoundrel.” When he brandished his cane at Monroe, Monroe went for the tongs.

25. Theodore Roosevelt was a big fan of food. He drank about a gallon of coffee a day and would sometimes eat a dozen hard-boiled eggs for breakfast.”

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Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author →

Excerpt: Ayn Rand: Workaholics seeking validation.

Not even gonna argue.

(Via Joy Engel, Tanner; written by Lauren Leto)

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We think it’s a game changer because it provides so much value to the customer.
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December 13, 2009
So what if I’ve basically been eating cheeseburgers all day?

So what if I’ve basically been eating cheeseburgers all day?

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December 10, 2009
on Russell Brand

jaimeleigh:

If you are unsure about him, read his autobiography “My Booky Wook.” It is pretty much one of the best books I’ve read in the last two years. My favourite, favourite part is how he closes it:

“The bus appeared on the distant horizon, and one of the women, with relief and disbelief that often accompanies the arrival of public transport said, ‘Oh look, the bus is coming.’ The other woman, seemingly aware that her words and attitude were potent and poetic enough to form the final sentence in a stranger’s book- paused, then said, ‘The bus was always coming.”

I basically think about this line every single day of my life.

The bus was always coming.

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fashism:

What Your Office Holiday Party Outfit Says About You: An In-Depth Analysis and Guide

Yes my friend, people are judging you based on your clothes. Unfair? Perhaps, but they are. So when you are getting ready to head off to your work’s holiday party this year, please consult this guide and dress for the occasion.

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December 8, 2009
In a survey of attitudes toward artists in the U.S. a vast majority of Americans, 96%, said they were greatly inspired by various kinds of art and highly value art in their lives and communities. But the data suggests a strange paradox. While Americans value art, the end product, they do not value what artists do. Only 27% of respondents believe that artists contribute “a lot” to the good of society.
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