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Preview: Legs Against Arms EP Release [Club de Ville / Saturday]
Pecan Street Project Gets $10.4 Million Stimulus Grant
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- Nearly 1 million people have been displaced by the California wildfires.
- Heckuva job: Former FEMA director Michael Brown is making himself available for interviews about the wildfires.
- Home sales went down 8% in September.
- Russia's "Chessboard killer" found guilty of 48 murders.
- Turkish planes attacked Kurdish positions in Turkey today, just outside the Iraq border.
- It may be more beneficial to the environment to be a carnivore who eats locally-made meat than to be a vegetarian.
- Sexism in professional kitchens: "I didn’t want the fact that I was a woman to be an issue, so I just put my head down and cooked and did the best that I could. . . And one day, some guys came in and shook everyone’s hands, and I held out my hand and this guy just walked straight past me. It’s like, “Okay, fuck you. I’m gonna be better than you one day.”
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SO HAS THE HOUSING MARKET COMPLETELY CRASHED YET? WHY YOU ASK? WELL, I'M HERE TO TELL YOU. MY CARDBOARD BOX IS STARTING TO GET AS LITTLE LEAKY AND WINTER IS ON THE WAY. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO GET A BIG CARDBOARD BOX THESE DAYS? NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. I GO BY WAL-MART AND THEY KICK ME OUT. I SNEAK AROUND BACK AND THEY HAVE THIS BIG MACHINE THAT CRUSHES THE BOXES. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? PERFICTLY GOOD CARDBOARD BOXES CRUSHED!! RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF MY EYES. SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR AWAY.
MAN I WAS PISSED.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO GO HIM ON HALVES FOR A DOWNTOWN CONDO? I HEAR THEY WILL BE GOING SUPERDUPER CHEAP BY JUNE.
Slate's article would have been more interesting if Newsweek hadn't written one about this subject in July.
What Me Sacrifice? Take 2