May 2009
75 posts
William Shatner: Why the hell don’t you pick up a... →
“I happened to see Susan Boyle on YouTube and I was blown away. Utterly and completely. Not only because of her voice—tremulous at times—but pure. As a performer who has struggled for years, with good fortune and bad, I’m only too aware of how cruel being an entertainer can be. And here was a story with a movie ending: spinster from a town that has no name, to recognition at the last...
European Commission Fines Intel $1.45 Billion in... →
“Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years,” European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement.
Abraham Lincoln's letter to a grieving mother,...
Executive Mansion
Washington, Nov 21, 1864
To Mrs Bixby, Boston, Mass,
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so...
HEY YOU! YES, YOU
nmpnmp:
Gossip Girl makes you cry and you have insecurities about your weight.
Not. My. Problem.
“We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school”
– Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender (via byronic)
Facebook’s Tolerance of Holocaust Denial Cannot... →
mashable:
Attorney Brian Cuban, brother to Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban, has published an open letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg demanding the removal of Holocaust denial…
12 Ways Women Have Replaced Men With Technology |... →
Jane Fonda in the Huffington Post: Time For New... →
“Adolescent pregnancy prevention is an American issue. We must invest in the future of young people so they can become literate, productive and economically self-sustaining citizens.”
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