August 2010
2 posts
September 2009
4 posts
“I quote others only in order to better express myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne
favorite fark.com FAIL headline of the day
Hank Williams Jr.: “If it wasn’t for the Electoral College, Obama wouldn’t be president.” That and 10.5 million more votes.
August 2009
5 posts
“The farther I go the less I know.”
– Fugazi
from the song Long Distance Runner
“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”
– Henry James
“The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep,...”
– Samuel Beckett
July 2009
10 posts
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six...”
– Oscar Wilde
think your iPhone 3GS data is secure? think again.... →
“Life is pain and anyone who tells you different is selling something.”
– William Goldman
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac
favorite fark.com headline of the day
Sarah Palin may attempt to form new conservative party, citing need for incoherent speeches, beauty pageants, and reports on lots of dogs.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
– Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
epic FAIL fark.com headline of the day
FBI files reveal Saddam was scared shiat-less of Iran, so he made the whole thing up about having WMDs, and would have formed an alliance with the US. Ooooops.
June 2009
18 posts
“We think of life as an inexhaustible well…How many more times will you...”
– Paul Bowles
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our...”
– Henry James
two brilliant students prove what we already know... →
favorite fark.com headline of the day
Tennessee legislature wants to allow gun-toting rednecks access to bars and public parks. Surprisingly, at least one cop doesn’t seem to have a problem with this.
horse latitudes
When the still sea conspires an armor And her sullen and aborted Currents breed tiny monsters True sailing is dead Awkward instant And the first animal is jettisoned Legs furiously pumping Their stiff green gallop And heads bob up Poise Delicate Pause Consent In mute nostril agony Carefully refined And sealed over.
- Jim Morrison
“And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare
favorite fark.com headline of the day
Internationally known psychic bilked of $200k by her bookkeeper. If only there were some way she could have seen that coming.
epic FAIL fark.com headline of the day
Not news: Superintendent mails letters to teachers that say they must give up a day of pay or face layoffs. Fark: Letters sent by certified mail, costing school $18,579.
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream...”
– Edgar Allen Poe
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make...”
– Andre Gide
May 2009
14 posts
“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”
– William S. Burroughs
favorite fark.com headline of the day
Laid-off religious workers shocked to learn they cannot collect unemployment because their employers are exempt from paying taxes. God dammit.
John Cusack: A War on Terror by Any Other Name →
Obama Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run... →
scariest fark.com headline of the day
Japanese researchers found lower suicide rates in cities with higher levels of lithium in their drinking water; this study brought to you by BraveNewWorldSmithKline.
“Good art however “immoral” is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can...”
– Ezra Pound
a letter from an ex-slave to his former master...
how far we have come (we’ve a ways to go yet) because of men like this who were unafraid to speak truth to power.
Dayton, Ohio, August 7th, 1865. Printed in the New York Tribune, August 22nd, 1865.
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. (“Henry”) Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter and was glad to find you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come...
Big Brother (the FBI) is getting money for some... →
Obama To Fire His First Gay Arabic Linguist by... →