Fuck Yeah Third Amendment

"There are no Asians in Asia, only people with national identities, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, and Filipino. But on this side of the Pacific, there are Asian Americans."

Ronald Takaki, “Strangers from a Different Shore” (1998)

(via confounditall)

No longer topical, but still sooo good.

The Atlantic has a roundup of butthurt Republicans

Ending a long week, preparing for another one

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What your favorite classic NES game says about you.

"The Spanish word for “ball bearings” is much cooler than the English: rulemanes dances on the tongue, like a poem, not like a construction. I so enjoy hearing and saying “roo-lay-mah-nays,” but find the word so specialized, and so unused within my specialty, that it rarely makes its way into my ears or out of my mouth."

Patrick Madden, In which we consider the glorious history of Uruguayan soccer and ball bearings

Abusing math to be irresistible to women

confounditall:

Written by a friend of mine and posted on facebook.

A while ago, I saw a picture on Facebook saying the following:

“My ideal man must:

-Be as swift as a coursing river.

-Have all the force of a great typhoon.

-Have all the strength of a raging fire.

-Be mysterious as the dark side of the moon.”

If you somehow haven’t heard of it, it’s a reference to this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64

I don’t have a training montage, but I do have something better. Math.

Like anyone else, my first reaction to seeing that image was, “If I can do this math well enough, I’ll be irresistible to women!” Actually it was the more straightforward “I wonder if that’s possible,” but I’ll go with the funnier revisionist version. So, the numbers:

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Good visualization of early voting in NC right now.

Unsubstantiated Rumor of the Night: Duke is planning to ask Jon Huntsman to be the new Sanford Dean.

The Obama camp seems to be quite worried about NC if Michelle is coming down to Charlotte on election day.