September 2011
18 posts
“We’ve had a very intense focus on [terrorist leader Anwar al Awlaki]. And once...”
– Senior White House official on the killing of American-born jihadist cleric Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen today.
WatchBrutal Spouse-Fighting Ring Discovered in Miami Basement (Preview of Season 2 on IFC). Beyond the Fact’s Jean Anne Whorton uncovers the illegal blood sport of spouse-fighting, where shady gamblers bait disgruntled wives and husbands to viciously tear each other to pieces over their petty issues.
Rob Delaney: My Tweets About Marijuana →
robdelaney:
I’ve received a lot of praise for my anti-pot tweets, so I thought it might be useful to compile them. Amazing how powerful they are when you take them all in at once:
just found out a guy i thought was a friend does marijuana
guys i did marijuana 7x in high school trust me you don’t…
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“If the story of New York City in the modern era is a story of formerly edgy,...”
– My favorite quote from a review of our new doc Limelight, opening in NYC today
“There gets to be a point where users say, ‘I can get my drugs from a criminal...”
– Cocaine No Longer the Drug of Choice (Miami Herald)
Former drug czar Barry McCaffrey thinks people buy grams of coke from dealers toting Swedish machine guns on their backs
“In the darkest hours of its history, France has always been able to count on the...”
– French president Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a fiercely pro-American speech to commemorate 9/11
"Sir, then they're just going to have to die."
After the two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center and the report that Flight 93 was hijacked and hurtling towards Washington DC, CIA director George Tenet ordered the evacuation of the agency’s headquarters. The CIA building in Langley was a prime target for Al-Qaeda. Cofer Black, Tenet’s deputy in charge of counterterrorism, insisted that his staff remain at their...
“I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people,...”
– Jaron Lanier Worker = Hipster Redux