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[Zicam] is a cold remedy which was sold as a homeopathic medicine, but its makers committed the unforgivable sin of actually having something in its formula besides well-shaken distilled water.
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The moral? If you’re going to sell homeopathic medicine - and boy, is it a lucrative business - make sure that you don’t put anything in there except sterile water. That’ll cut down on your expenses, too, since most ingredients cost more than water, anyway. Stick with that strategy, and you can be absolutely sure that nothing bad will happen to your customers.
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Charles Bukowski
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens. -
Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Doomsday (Gold Room Session) (via XLRecordings)
With the awesome drummer!
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The Electric Company - Sign Song (via NantoVision)
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Unlike Paskin, I do not regard [Naomi] Wolf as “a serious feminist and thinker.” She’s a feminist, certainly, but neither serious nor a thinker. She is an emoter, whose work typically generalizes from her narcissistic neediness to “the female experience.” It is usually an intellectually frivolous approach.
—The awesome Virginia Postrel @ Deep Glamour
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Viewed dispassionately, Iran’s elections represented a domestic struggle between a relatively more liberal and moderately less nationalistic urban class and the less affluent, less educated, more traditional population outside of Iran’s cities, Tehran in particular. This tension, the dispassionate observer might note, remains one of the principle sources of internal political tension even in most of the world’s advanced democracies, despite the fact that the ruling élite, regardless of their stylistic predilections, share certain assumptions and a certain consensus about how to run the country and how the country ought to interact with the rest of the world.
