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Originally shared by Drew McCarthy What We Got Mo' Hippa' Than Whatchoo Got... Get Out The Way, Let The Gentlemen Do Their Thang... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSDyh36miqY

No Backsies via Randy Culler Originally shared by Amanda Patterson

Mountain Mean Mike Cross-Mountain Mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdvremaUe4 and then one guy down at the end of the counter got up from where he sat said that little trucker sure ain't much of a man to let them three guys treat him like that the grill owner nodded, and pointed outside says yeah and i'll tell you what he ain't much of a truck driver, either he just ran over three guys in the parking lot now that's mean what i mean that's mountain mean it's the baddest bad you've ever seen it's the kind of bad called mountain mean mountain mean http://myfox8.com/2017/06/29/video-shows-pregnant-woman-run-over-suspected-purse-thief-in-nc-walmart-parking-lot/

Ain't All Bad Instead of giving her a ticket, Strandh brought her to a Mr. Tire for a new tire and an inspection -- his gift to her. "When he went up to pay for the tire, he pulls out his debit card and it had his children on it," Bailey said. "The first thing that pops into my head is that, you're a cop, on a cop's salary, and you’re about to drop $200 on me? You don't know me." "That type of consideration and compassion isn’t something that you’re really used to like nowadays with humans in general, especially not police officers." http://www.wral.com/durham-police-officer-s-act-of-kindness-goes-viral-after-touching-facebook-video/16793748/

Multicam Mufti Not Marpat. Terminal Lance has gone off the reservation. The comments are gold. https://www.instagram.com/p/BV0c8xvh9K_/

Gakyo Rojin Old Man Crazy To Paint... He was 70 when he did “Under the Wave off Kanagawa" in 1831, a work made possible by the falling price of imported Prussian Blue pigment. Originally shared by Damn interesting Video: Biography of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, painter of the world-famous "The Great Wave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86QHdTEsNJo&feature=youtu.be

Playing The Game Sometimes I'm nostalgic for the days of the Silent Majority. It wasn't really nicer, but parts of it were quieter. Originally shared by Mattias Adolfsson http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/2017/06/moral-majority-video-game.html

Island http://pilotonline.com/news/local/environment/large-new-island-forms-off-popular-outer-banks-fishing-spot/article_dbf266d9-5991-586c-8209-8ec6f24a01ee.html Jimmy Buffett - Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JI_XRZT3b8 Island, I see you in the distance. I feel that your existence, Is not unlike my own. Island, They say no man is like you. They say you stand alone. Sometimes I feel that way, too. It’s the need for love... Heart and soul accompaniment, That seems to make me different from you... Well I’ve tried to book passage, But you have no ports. And I try to sail in, But your wind and waters, tore my sails and broke my oars... Island, I see you in the moonlight. Silhouettes of ships in the night, Just make me want that much more. Island, I see you in all of my dreams. Maybe someday I’ll have the means, To reach your distant shores. When the need for love… Heart and soul accompaniment, No longer makes me different from you.

Flushed Away Originally shared by Irina T. 06|29|2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/dissolving_the_dead

America's Ghost Riders Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark Lin-Manuel Miranda Unveils ‘Immigrants’ Video for ‘Hamilton Mixtape’ Featuring Riz Ahmed, Daveed Diggs "The video features contemporary scenes of immigrants working in sweatshops, as farm laborers and other physically challenging jobs, as well as scenes of federal immigration raids...The song, which features the refrain 'Immigrants — we get the job done,' was inspired by a line from the song 'Yorktown'" http://variety.com/2017/music/news/lin-manuel-miranda-immigrants-riz-ahmed-daveed-diggs-1202481019/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_35a7sn6ds

SRS BZNS via Vicky Veritas Originally shared by Cheryl Martin http://blacknerdproblems.com/the-foreigner-trailer-jackie-chan-is-not-fucking-around-with-yall-anymore/

Who's The Boss? http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/28/tillerson-blows-up-at-white-house-aide-240075

Red Pencils = Red Shirts Trust the Algorithm. http://jacklimpert.com/2014/10/editors-work-fun-colored-pencils/ The Copy Editor's Lament: https://www . youtube.com/watch?v=kizQ3cQAB0Y Originally shared by Ray Radlein http://www.poynter.org/2017/new-york-times-copy-desk-to-top-editors-you-have-turned-your-backs-on-us-update4/465100/

To-May-To, To-Mah-To Let's call the whole thing off... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/jun/28/flawed-reporting-about-whatsapp The letter by Zeynep Tufekci reads like a overwrought jeremiad in defense of the privacy chops of an app owned by... wait for it... Facebook . Anyone else find that amusing? The terms of art in hacking, security, risk management, and (dare we say it?) Free Speech, are less than rigorously defined. It seems as if the letter says that folks are too dim to understand the details of security tradeoffs, and we shouldn't frighten them with them. Everything is just fine here, nothing to see, move along, trust us... In the meantime, maybe we'll just outlaw the use of the term "back door" (unless Bruce Schneier says it) and that will fix everything. Originally shared by Susan Jahn http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687

Soapbox For those as pure as Ivory Snow... via George Station Originally shared by Reverend Eric Ha https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms

The Name Is Bond... Michael Bond Originally shared by lynn paden a wise bear rest well, michael bond. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36428937

Origins of ERP Heed the Oracle... More here: http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2012/03/super-abnormal-phenomena-survival-kit.html Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

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Indian Giver http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/02/217295339/the-history-behind-the-phrase-dont-be-an-indian-giver Originally shared by Ray Radlein https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/26/the-pentagon-promised-citizenship-to-immigrants-who-served-now-it-might-help-deport-them/?tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.103aadb0559b

Blue Monday Still a mess... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17075949 Randy Newman-Blue Monday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZrtShoQUgk

Not wget In Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh What the heck? Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643467 ]. Daniel Stenberg, author of cURL, denied entry to the US at the airport. " Daniel Stenberg‏ @bagder Going back home. To cry. To curse. To write code from home instead. Fricking miserable morning. No #sfallhands for me." Harish Pillay Nanik T Karim Yaghmour https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152

"Immeasurably Fun" Heh. Scientific Toys In The Attic. Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Visiting the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is always immeasurably fun. The agency’s headquarters—a green and sprawling 234-hectare campus, just a jaunt from Washington, DC—is studded with scientific wonders." https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/a-pigeon-piloted-bomb-odd-powders-and-cryptic-science-ars-goes-to-nist/

Beds Are Burning The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share Midnight Oil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.gq.com/story/san-francisco-is-burning

Wha's The Difference Wha's the difference between a kilt and a skirt? A Glasgow kiss. You wear underwear under a skirt and shoes under a kilt. Mike Cross-The Scotsman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKOvdnBvTE Young Female Tourist: What's worn under a kilt? Scotsman: Nay, lassie, 'tis not worn at all. 'Tis in excellent condition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKOvdnBvTE

Skirting The Issue Also: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/22/french-bus-drivers-skirts-dress-code-nantes https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy

Kill It With Fire https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/22/a-terrifying-threat-from-tropical-storm-cindy-floating-masses-of-deadly-fire-ants/

"First Off, Don't Talk About What You Don't Know." Chuck: And you had this rule. You were like, "Have one drink a week, but make it a good one." Alton: I don't keep that rule. Chuck: I kind of figured. Alton: I went through a divorce. You're supposed to drink once a week and get divorced? I don't think so. Not in the South. No. Chuck: But I like the fact that if you were only going to do it once ... Alton: … you should do it and make it count. Chuck: Make it a martini. Alton: Make it a big martini. And have one dessert a week and make it expensive and delicious. In the end, if you give somebody just a little something to look forward to, they can do it. You give them nothing to look forward, they fail. http://bittersoutherner.com/alton-brown#.WUwNKRPyujI

De Colores Or the absence thereof... Blacker than hitting it twice with Pantone Black... What happens when someone finds the artist's choices... unpaletteable. Yes, I did go there. Waiting to see if any of this new technology will go into my next Velvet Elvis purchase... Alannah Myles-Black Velvet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXNEmtf9tk https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/

Round Up You don't improve communities and make them safe by acting without compassion. Identifying and removing "others" doesn't strengthen us, it lessens us. Originally shared by The New Yorker After the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Mohammad Razvi started receiving calls from Pakistanis who feared that law enforcement would round up every immigrant who was in the country illegally, and that anti-Muslim hate crimes would escalate, as they had in the fall of 2001. http://nyer.cm/4SmwxFl

Double Secret Probation This is also a problem in Immigration law... Originally shared by Alex Scrivener In 2014, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) rejected a service provider's request to obtain other FISC opinions that government attorneys had cited and relied on in court filings seeking to compel the provider's cooperation. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/06/the_dangers_of_.html

Deadly Fear Originally shared by Alex Scrivener To believe Yanez, you would have to believe that Castile, a law-abiding, peaceful cafeteria manager at a local elementary school who had a concealed-carry permit, was for some unknown reason bent on murdering the police officer who had pulled him over because of a faulty brake light. You would also have to believe that Castile, having decided to shoot Yanez, thought it was a good idea to calmly announce, "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me." http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/21/philando-castile-video-shows-a-cop-who-p

Don't Drain The Swamp Sample it... Originally shared by Eric Hansen Considering my first action on unwrapping handlebar tape is to hit the assemblage with a firehose of alcohol to damp the smell, I should send this guy some samples. https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/528687/

Denial Ain't just a river in Egypt... "In the end, they were no match for their neighbors’ deeply rooted political allegiances, and they may have become a self-reinforcing feedback loop." I think that some folks have got too much faith in the Representative part of Representative Democracy. Electing folks, from either side, does not by itself fix problems. Der Donald is finding that out, the hard way. This account said that $100 per prospective voter was spent. On what? Yes, that is a rhetorical question, Virginia... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/a-crushing-loss-in-georgia-ends-a-losing-season-for-democrats/531072/

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Lagging Behind In the old days, you'd be labeled an old lag if you had done a Two, or more... Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/20/buried-alive-the-old-men-stuck-in-britains-prisons

Like White On Rice Like Stink On Sh*t. Hard To Get Rid Of. https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/like-white-on-rice/ Originally shared by Tina Vigilante CHRISTIAN RIGHT FASCISTS

Luke Is In The Desert And Whining - Waaaaaah I'm listening to the pristine aural qualities of the remastered Sgt. Pepper, and The Resident Teenager can't stop singing these lyrics on top of the originals... So appropos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFyX1IkjAM

Elma Turl Mike Cross-Elma Turl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehsqtmTzULM Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) In my youth, when I didn't know any better, I used to get into discussions with people about stuff like this. It's so deeply buried, it's difficult (for myself included) to separate truth from expectation. There is a big chunk of the population that still sees men and women in more or less traditional ways. There is another somewhat less big chunk that advocates an expanded view of women but still relates to men in more or less the same way. That we're more aggressive, disproportionately promiscuous, and so on. Part of the reason I share stuff like this -- and the article from last week that showed married queens started more wars than kings (married or not) -- is NOT because I'm some bullshit MRA, but because gender relations are reciprocal, like a dance, and you can't change your ideas of one without changing your ideas about the other. One of t...

Apple Is Doomed Dooooomed, I tell you. Memento Mori 2.0 https://mondaynote.com/apple-culture-after-ten-years-of-iphone-dbc65f4438aa

Originally shared by Ray Radlein Remember-Caesar-Thou-Art-Mortal Dep't: "Insofar as it affects the way we think, power, Keltner reminded me, is not a post or a position but a mental state. Recount a time you did not feel powerful, his experiments suggest, and your brain can commune with reality. "Recalling an early experience of powerlessness seems to work for some people—and experiences that were searing enough may provide a sort of permanent protection. An incredible study published in The Journal of Finance last February found that CEOs who as children had lived through a natural disaster that produced significant fatalities were much less risk-seeking than CEOs who hadn’t." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

Whither Willie Pete? Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger This waste site near Butte, Montana – a former phosphorus plant – hides an incredibly alarming thing: a 500,000-gallon concrete tank of white phosphorus sludge. That sludge sits under a cap of 2-3 feet of water, steadily replenished by an automated system; on top of that are rows of plastic "bird balls" that keep waterfowl from landing on the surface and slow evaporation. If that water cap were ever to fail, the phosphorus would come into contact with atmospheric oxygen, bursting instantly into flame. That would, in turn, clear out any remaining water, causing the entire pool to explode and strew toxic smoke across the entire area, with quite a few towns in the crossfire. For those of you familiar with them, that pool can basically be thought of as about 853,000 WP grenades with a water pumping system keeping their fuse unlit. There are quite a few things wrong with this, to say the least. One is the economic chicanery ...

Breatharians #NotRightHumans Something something before you prise fresh biscuits/bread/cornbread/pie from my cold dead hands... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/breatharian-couple-food-free-lifestyle-diet-not-hungry-2008-camila-castello-akahi-ricardo-ecuador-a7792841.html

Sheep Wrangler Achievement Unlocked. In preparation for my star turn, I rewatched The Sundowners, and re-read Nop's Trials. Sheep were shorn with no fatalities, and I only got dragged through the pasture oncet.

Pho To Go Originally shared by **** I was horrified at first, but they kind of won me over. Pho + Burrito = Phorrito. A bowl of pho that you can eat on the go. https://youtu.be/jMW6Fith4fw

Grandma Food My grandma and your grandma, Were sitting by the fire, My grandma told your grandma, I'm gonna set your flag on fire... Talkin' 'bout, Hey now! The Dixie Cups-Iko Iko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wNSHPQj0W8 http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170607-why-isnt-there-more-jewish-food-in-israel

MOB Not that we haven't thought about jettisoning the skipper, but he didn't need any help from the crew for this one... Nathan is interviewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkk8gD7lvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyjJwTj3fVs

Prayer For A Child How it is supposed to work. It ain't easy, it ain't perfect, and sometimes it fails. But it's always important to try, both as families, and as a nation. It is how bad and broken things get better, a little at a time. Plus, even old people can climb trees, and should. http://sharonrandall.com/2017/06/prayer-child-june-13-2017/

Speeding I don't know about y'all, but we're suffering from the implementation of this broken policy in my local community, and I'm hearing lots of stories from other places, too. Including the countries and communities that we are shipping folks back to. The criminal justice system in the United States already has issues with disproportionally punishing dark skinned folks, so we cast a jaundiced eye on pronouncements about sending back "bad hombres", but we could see the sense in it. But we're seeing cases where grandmothers and mothers with happy, thriving children who are United States citizens, are being deported for no other reason than to create fear, and because they are easy to find. In some cases, these women would not be allowed to even visit their children in the US for ten years, or more. And the narrative is full of words like illegal , and criminal , when it is rules that are being broken. Probably not surprising in a world where high sc...

Keyboarding I can still hear my high school typing teacher telling us we'd go to hell for typing on the platen without any paper in the machine. http://nerdist.com/theres-a-typewriter-orchestra-and-its-pretty-incredible/

Who's Minding The Store? Ripped from today's headlines: "A fool in charge of a department store - how much damage could he actually do?" Leroy Anderson-The Typewriter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typewriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaPKEbVypRQ

Making An Impression We've got two at the house. A Smith Corona from the 40s, and a Royal from the 50s. http://www.wpta21.com/story/35660854/vintage-typewriters-gain-fans-amid-digital-burnout

Cutting Edge Originally shared by **** Controversial. https://youtu.be/QjhIYKeldKM

Originally shared by G.K. Nelson This seems appropriate today. I am often troubled by the direction politics take, but the answer is never violence. I know this is a stretch, but one worth making. We talk flippantly about being part of a diverse American family, but the family has to include the brothers and sisters with whom we disagree over Thanksgiving dinner or all our talk of being inclusive is meaningless.

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White Male Privilege Not feeling it? You might be suffering from a critical lack of White Male Privilege. See your doctor today. Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark Kamala Harris: What policy are you using to avoid answering? Jeff Sessions: White privilege KH: That's not a Burr: WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE Mind you, Sen. Kamala Harris is a former CA Attorney General. She is both Indian American (mom immigrated from India, a doctor, researcher and daughter of Indian diplomat) and Black (dad immigrated from Jamaica, a Stanford econ professor). https://twitter.com/HITEXECUTIVE/status/874729477477089280

The LiquiGlide Presidency Originally shared by C Merle This is all too plausible. https://thenib.com/what-if-trump-were-caught-red-handed?t=recent

Argy Bargy With Intent Not that I haven't seen the Pros walloping each other into the barriers in final sprint... But this? One more example of how often Masters is a misnomer in racing... I hope the officials work with Chuck Hodges to put an end to this... https://pvcycling.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/felony-battery/

Getting All Sweary Ending telecommuting couldn't prevent Marissa Mayer from driving Yahoo right off the glass cliff... https://liliputing.com/2017/06/verizon-makes-oath-closing-4-5-billion-yahoo-purchase.html

Originally shared by Assia Alexandrova #mood https://laughingsquid.com/goldfish-controlled-hamme/

Originally shared by Ralf Haring "For decades pundits and pols have been telling progressive voters they don't have the juice to make real demands, and must make alliances with more "moderate" and presumably more numerous "centrists" in order to avoid becoming the subjects of right-wing monsters like Reagan/Bush/Bush/Trump." "Voters for decades were conned into thinking they were noisome minorities whose best path to influence is to make peace with the mightier "center," which inevitably turns out to support military interventionism, fewer taxes for the rich, corporate deregulation and a ban on unrealistic "giveaway" proposals like free higher education. Those are the realistic, moderate, popular ideas, we're told." "But it's a Wizard of Oz trick, just like American politics in general. There is no numerically massive center behind the curtain. What there is instead is a tiny island of wealthy donors, surround...

Circle Of Jerks Remember all those hyperbolic, satirical movies about Inside The Beltway Chicanery? Cannot compete with what is available on video, right here, right now. http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-meeting/index.html

Gone Hollywood Supertramp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYDXfKc6Go Originally shared by Tim O'Brien The Trump Cabinet Meeting Sketch. https://youtu.be/2tXtPygIL5E

More Wisdom Of The Markets Always Trust The Algorithm... Originally shared by C Merle In case you were wondering. Milo Minderbender would be proud. http://bookriot.com/2017/01/24/why-would-anyone-sell-books-for-a-penny/

12 Truths "Number two: almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you." via George Station Originally shared by Teodora Petkova Anne Lamott shares her 12 truths learned from life and writing 15 minutes well spent. Enjoy this Sunday :) 1. All truth is a paradox “heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, desperate poverty,floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together” 2. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you. 3. There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way , unless you're waiting for an organ. 4. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together. 5. Chocolate with 75 percent cacao is not actually a food . 6. Writing Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair. That's the secret of life. 7. Publication and temporary creative successes are ...

The BIG Yin That'll leave a mark... Larger than life... "The great thing about Glasgow, is that if there's a nuclear attack, it'll look exactly the same, afterwards." http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/big-tribute-to-the-big-yin-from-bbc-scotland

Spearchucker Popinjay V2.0

Nana Nana Nana Nana Nana Nana Nana Nana He'll be missed... Originally shared by G.K. Nelson For me, and for many of my generation, he will always be the Batman. A genuinely good humored, gracious human. Rest easy, Adam West. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/10/532375891/adam-west-who-played-the-dark-knight-at-his-brightest-dies-at-88

War Machine Worth the watch. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-war-machine-director-20170603-story.html

Missing Letter Of Marque http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/09/532259937/its-checkmatey-for-pirate-joes-canadian-grocery-reseller-lowers-its-sails

GWONRF! Join the Global War On #NotRightFoods! Originally shared by **** An Indian politician has declared war on “killer” Asian dumplings. Ramesh Arora, a member of the state legislative assembly in Jammu in northern India, has been waging a five-month battle against the South Asian food known as momos — tiny steamed pockets of dough with meat or vegetable filling. “Our teenagers are getting addicted to the dumplings like drugs. It’s spoiling their health. We have to stop it,” Arora said at a demonstration Wednesday, during which he stood in front of an image of a momo with a large red cross and a slogan that read “Say no to momos.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/09/indian-legislator-declares-war-on-killer-dumplings/

On Fire Dan Weese doesn't think much of his work. Shannon Ravenel apparently did. I'm finally getting around to reading this. "I figured writing might be like learning how to build houses or lay brick, or even fight fires. I had one burning thought that I believed was true. If I wrote long enough and hard enough, I’d eventually learn how." "My only obligation was feeding my family while I was trying to learn how to do this other thing, and that meant to keep working at the fire department plus the usual extra stuff like carrying bricks and mixing mortar and swinging a hammer and cutting pulpwood with a chain saw. But I was willing to do all that in order to have the scattered afternoons and weekends to write." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/books/larry-brown-on-fire-firefighting-memoir.html

Mad For The Plaid All Tartaned Up, and Ready To Go! Originally shared by **** What do you think? Is it a yes or a YES!!!!!!! How could you say no to this beautiful machine? https://neworleans.craigslist.org/cto/6168324642.html

PDA NDA Originally shared by **** The decision will likely have long-lasting implications for digital privacy, far beyond the immediate concern surrounding how and when police can search a mobile device. Police are typically allowed to search an individual after an arrest, but Roberts wrote that the amount of personal information contained on a cell phone made such a search different from the usual objects authorities might find when asking someone to empty their pockets. "A cell phone search would typically expose to the government far more than the most exhaustive search of a house,” he wrote. “A phone not only contains in digital form many sensitive records previously found in the home; it also contains a broad array of private information never found in a home in any form—unless the phone is." Via Carl Draper​​ http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/supreme-court-cell-phone-privacy-searches

Photographic Fixer Digital Hypo + Blix! Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark LOL https://twitter.com/Goldrushcomic/status/871991212571414528

The Four Fs Well, three of them, anyway... via Cara Evangelista https://thenib.com/speculation-on-the-mount

Pain Management Riding the horse out of town... It ain't the drugs killing people... It's the lack of resources, and lack of hope... Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-addicts-next-door

Yabba-Dabba-Doobie! http://www.wral.com/authorities-seize-fruity-pebbles-marijuana-bar-during-i-95-traffic-stop/16745654/

Fresh. Funk. Zigaboo Leads The Way. 'Nuff Said. Originally shared by **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pif1fXxhNQ&feature=player_embedded

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"I Only Drink When I'm Working" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/06/d-days-hero-andrew-higgins-loved-bourbon-cursed-a-lot-and-built-the-boat-that-won-wwii/

DAMHIKIJK I visualized Wile E. Coyote on the way down... https://qz.com/999729/how-to-protect-yourself-when-you-fall/

Originally shared by **** "God forbid your name is Garcia, of which there are 858,000 in the U.S., and your first name is Joseph or Jose. You're probably suspected of voting in 27 states." This inherent bias results in an astonishing one in six Hispanics, one in seven Asian-Americans and one in nine African-Americans in Crosscheck states landing on the list. Was the program designed to target voters of color? "I'm a data guy. I can't tell you what the intent was. I can only tell you what the outcome is. And the outcome is discriminatory against minorities." via Edward Morbius http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

Connecting The Dots via Alex Scrivener Originally shared by Mike DiBaggio "Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named "Reality Winner" was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted by the Intercept isn't the original PDF file, but a PDF containing the pictures of the printed version that was then later scanned in. The problem is that most new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document."

"Won't Pay, and Won't Listen" I know this Tribe, I know this Song. Sorrow awaits. via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Cindy Brown Oh, my god. The unwillingness of some of the country’s most prestigious attorneys and their law firms to represent Trump has complicated the administration’s efforts to mount a coherent defense strategy to deal with probes being conducted by four congressional committees as well as Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller. The president’s chief lawyer now in charge of the case is Marc E. Kasowitz, a tough New York civil litigator who for years has aggressively represented Trump in multiple business and public relations disputes — often with threats of countersuits and menacing public statements — but who has little experience dealing with complex congressional and Justice Department investigations that are inevitably influenced by media coverage and public opinion. The kicker: “The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won...

Rock Of Ages http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2017/06/06

Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "We have some sad news to share with Wallace & Gromit fans today- Peter Sallis, the unmistakable voice of Wallace, passed away over the weekend at the age of 96. Peter was a wonderful talent whose gentle yet distinctive voice brought Nick Park’s creation to live, charming millions of fans all over the world. Nick Park shares some memories of working with Peter below: [...] When I look back I’m so blessed and fortunate that he had the generosity of spirit to help out a poor film school student back in the early 1980’s, when we first recorded together, when neither of us had any idea what Wallace & Gromit might become. Peter's unique, charming quality, together with oversized vowels and endearing performance, helped me fashion Wallace from the beginning; the way he first said "We've forgotten the Crackers Gromit" and "Cracking toast Gromit" or just "Cheeeese!" soon lead to Wallace's enormous 'coa...

"Nothing To Be Done" saith Estragon... The Race of The Sea Breeze That Wasn't...

Originally shared by **** SUCH AS THIS On a day such as this There simply is No hope Of work Nothing to be done But mount my bicycle And coast in summer air Refreshing, clean, and empty The vast sky nearly cloudless A sparkling, blue infinity Frigate winds tempering The slip-your-clothes-off heat I glide upon smooth pavement Floating, almost flying And for all the world believe I’m by the sea Every shore I’ve ever loved In August Nantucket, Newfoundland, and Skye All of it rains down on me One exquisite memory Almost Too good to endure Lobster, butter, fresh, sweet corn Bonfires on the beach Clams we dug out Of the muck ourselves With tender, wriggling toes Tough knife, squirt of lemon juice Down the hatch it goes How you sat on the slats Of that Adirondack chair In your dripping bathing suit And when you rose The wet ghost You left Alistair McHarg http://www.alistairmcharg.com/50-poems.html

Originally shared by Randy Culler Clinch Mountain Backstep Here's a few of my picking buddies and myself jamming at the Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention https://youtu.be/kozKCLx4b2I?list=PLfQ5xXQuzs52tbaIGWyUk-n41n0DrOa5O

Wrong Hole... Wrong Hole! Gone Fishing... http://www.wral.com/boat-explodes-after-gas-was-pumped-into-fishing-rod-holder/16740105/

AKA Chinese Internet Maintenance Day Originally shared by **** The Tank Man "On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world." We will not forget. Watch The Tank Man by PBS:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

The Penalties Of Oppositional Defiance Disorder Originally shared by **** "If the government cared about people's suffering they'd be working with us and engaging oppressed communities. But private property is more important to the government and society at large than human lives. I'm looking at spending more than three times my age in prison for going to a protest. No human being should be in a cage that long, especially not for trying to live." As protests flourish in cities and towns across the US, at least 18 states are now considering 30-plus bills designed to curb protests by introducing increasingly severe penalties for demonstrators. The United Nations warned in March that 16 such bills, if passed, will violate international human rights law. The bills would strip "the voices of the most marginalised, who often find the right to assemble the only alternative to express their opinions". http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/anti-trump-...

"Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina..." Originally shared by Semicentenary Project The Monkees - Zilch http://buff.ly/2rCdW8R

Originally shared by lynn paden page from kurtzman and elder's woman wonder! it appeared in mad magazine #10 in april of 1954. whole story here: http://jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2011/09/woman-wonder-bill-elder-mad-mondays.html

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Dragon's Breath Regatta Usually held in August, but it shows promise to be pretty hot today...

Barely There The Mitchell Hardware Store Bear says good morning.

Bang Bang http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x306xwf