For girls, the holiday’s hottest toy is a set of fake hamsters; for boys, a series of cards and action figures inside spheres.WTF? The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
The Frame
More stately mansions.
An Example of One of the Many Unnecessarily Cryptic and Poorly Written Sentences in my Reading for Law School
I have no clue what is going on in this sentence from my Torts casebook:
“The strictness of the intentional trespass action is mitigated to some extent through a series of privileges that shield from liability activity that would otherwise constitute a trespass.”
The Most Glorious Thing I’ve Ever Seen on the Internet: Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) (via melodysheep)
(via: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan)
Interesting video - Beck can’t define his own phrase (either because it will sound racist because it probably is racist, or because he really doesn’t know what it means) but relies on the listener to fill in the definition. Now that I think about it, this rhetorical tool seems standard in ‘outrage’ discourse. It’s a way to rile people up without saying anything.








