let's go for a ride

We’ve arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

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—	Rush Limbaugh - whose first, second, third and fourth wives could not be reached for comment. (via seldo)

I think the most bizarre thing about monogamy to me is how often sexual exclusivity serves as a proxy for a real commitment. “Yeah, we’re together, I guess, because I’m not doing it with anybody else.” And the illusion that a monogamous commitment somehow makes a relationship more secure seems upended by the disruptive, obsessive, guilt-ridden emotions a monogamous person feels when he or she is (inevitably) attracted to somebody other than his or her partner.

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—	http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/being-in-an-open-marriage-is-a-lot-like-being-on-fire/ Not that I’m looking to jump into an open marriage, but this bit about people equating monogamy with commitment really needs to be said.

researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it — and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body.

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—	Are octopuses intelligent? I recently stopped eating octopus because I decided they were on this side of the “too smart to eat” line (see also: chimps, dolphins). (via seldo)

Ultimate body hack: Replacing the human heart »

In between replacing hearts and performing other magic tricks, Billy Cohn say this about the FDA dragging their feet on testing human heart replacements;“The Wright brothers flew 800 feet in 1903, and commercial air travel began in 1920.”

seldo:

Smart, sarcastic people get overwrought about the state of America? Might we well have called it West Wing 2. But that’s okay, because I loved West Wing. Bring it on, Aaron. Just don’t fuck it up like Studio 60.

parislemon:

Aaron Sorkin does Network meets Bulworth for HBO.

Sold.

barefootandbrakeless:

Wow.

nevver:

Maximum Air

keramurphy:

putin on the ritz