April 2012
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert (via acraw)
March 2011
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February 2011
2 posts
An e-mail from the President of Ohio State:
Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day for declaring one’s affections, and so I send this note to let you know how much I appreciate each and every one of you. Our numerous campuses create one University with a huge heart, and I see evidence of your caring at every turn…….And now, I issue a challenge: Smile. Even if you are...
across the table.
My brother is an Air Force JAG, and is currently serving in Afghanistan. His duty while there is, to put it simply, process terrorists. A typical day involves him sitting in a dimly lit room, staring at and talking to members of the Taliban that are brought and placed in a seat across the table from where he is seated. These men…no, I won’t even call them men…these subhuman...
December 2010
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November 2010
2 posts
“Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing...”
– Stephen King
Truth right there.
(via portia)
September 2010
1 post
From "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov
…We do not see and we do not hear those who suffer, and what is terrible in life goes on somewhere behind the scenes…Everything is quiet and peaceful, and nothing protests but mute statistics: so many people gone out of their minds, so many gallons of vodka drunk, so many children dead from malnutrition…And this order of things is evidently necessary; evidently the happy man only...
August 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
2 posts
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded...”
– John Stuart Mill
October 2009
4 posts
September 2009
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Please vote for the classic Donut Den sign →
stephenxblog:
Seriously. It’s a Nashville landmark.
August 2009
50 posts
