May 2011
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“Down the aisle is Welch’s 100% Grape Juice, with no fat and emblazoned with a...”
– Foods With Health Benefits, or So They Say - NYTimes.com
We don’t shop in grocery stores anymore. They are - quite literally - filled with nothing but poison.
(via evangotlib)
Note from Ron: I love that the NY Times leaves out that there is no sugar added to Welch’s Grape Juice (stated as...
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“If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they’d be considered...”
– Peter Collins, The Secret Life of Libraries (via jingc)
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brianfeldman:
Serious business: I am biking 50 miles for charity.
On May 21st, I’m going to be participating in “Coast the Coast,” a charity bike ride to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. I’ll be riding with a team from members of my hometown, The Park Pedalers, and if memory serves, this will be my 12th consecutive year riding in the event. And it is now...
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We Are All Fucked, We Are All Fine →
My colleague and friend Leigh Alexander wrote this wonderful, inspiring piece on Thought Catalog:
Let go of that process of trying to be ‘normal’ and you might just fall off the face of the Earth; first your feet won’t be touching the ground and then everything will start to look really far away and impossible to touch and then before you know it you’ll be lifting off soundlessly into the...
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the fake triumph of not liking something
inthefade:
I don’t get the pride with which some people say “I don’t like [insert popular tv show/band/movie here]!” When someone puts this out in the internet I imagine them sitting at their computer, raising their fist in the air as they click the button that sends their opinion out to the world. Then they sit back and wait for the backlash, smugly appraising every reaction while seeing...
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If you're smart, you'll stay in school — it really...
Last night, I went back to Hofstra (after graduating in December) for the induction ceremony for Phi Alpha Theta, a national honor society for history students. I figured I was just going to get a certificate, and that’d be that.
I did, indeed, get a nice certificate. But what I didn’t know was that I would also be receiving an award from the History Department: the Robert L. Payton...
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