May 2011
8 posts
Word of the Day
schadenfreude (noun) - delight in another person’s misfortune.
Synonyms: Republican, corporateer, CEO, Tea-Party member, or right-wing Christians. [A bit redundant, I know].
Master of the Emergency Exit....
criticalculture:
On date with a girl who is that rare combination of deathly cute, sardonic, bookish and a CBC fan. Things were going great until she pipes up that Ayn Rand is her favourite author and that reviews of the Atlas Shrugged movie were biased.
Hopefully she understood that once she said this, my $5.75 Americano became a “sunk cost” and that I was only acting according to the reason...
“In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or...”
– George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (via middleclasscommunist)
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via whiporwill)
