Oct 31 2008
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Row vs. Wade [via: talby]
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“Albert D. J. Cashier, birth name Jennie Irene Hodgers (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915) was an Irish-born soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier was biologically female, but lived as a man.”
“On August 6, 1862, Hodgers enlisted into the 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment using the name Albert Cashier and was assigned to Company G. The regiment was part of the Army of the Tennessee under Ulysses S. Grant and fought in approximately forty battles, including the siege at Vicksburg, the Red River Campaign and the combat at Guntown, Mississippi, where they suffered heavy casualties.
Other soldiers thought that Cashier was just small and preferred to be alone, which was not that uncommon. He was once captured in battle, but escaped back to Union lines after overpowering a prison guard.”
I heard of Cashier from the book Tishomingo Blues (spoilers) by Elmore Leonard. The book deals somewhat heavily with Civil War re-enacters, so there are many references to actual Civil War events and people throughout the book, including Cashier. At first I thought the story sounded far-fetched, a real-life Eowyn in the Civil War. But, I looked it up and it’s true. Fascinating.
The article above also leads to a list of wartime cross-dressers.
Oct 28 2008
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Car under street light (via T.SC)
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Brown: So are you going to run for governor?
Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.
Brown: You are serious.
Barkley: I am, I can’t screw up Alabama.
Brown: There is no place to go but up in your view?
Barkley: We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren’t going anywhere.
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Charles Barkley interviewed by Campbell Brown on CNN
It would be offensive were it not true.
[via: svn]
Oct 25 2008
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YouTube - Tim Minchin - If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out [NSFW]
I wish my hair was that awesome.
[via: amb]
Oct 24 2008
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“ I take dictation from that place within my mind that knows what to say. I think most good writers do. There is no such thing as waiting for inspiration. The idea of “diagramming” an essay in advance, as we are taught in school, may be useful to students but is foolishness for any practicing writer. The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.
Oct 23 2008
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YouTube - Formation of a whopper 100 solar mass star (via TheBadAstronomer)
Description: “This video shows the formation of a massive star — 100 times the Sun’s mass — from a cold cloud of gas and dust. It’s a visualization generated from computer models done by Mark Krumholz at Princeton University. The long view is on the left, and a closeup on the right.”
Oct 22 2008
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I don’t recall where I found this.
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“ A knife fight is a fight in which each combatant is armed with a knife. It is similar to a sword fight, except that knives are much shorter than swords, resulting in the combatants engaging at closer ranges.
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In case anyone was curious as to the encyclopedic definition of “knife fight”.
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You will likely have to click through to read the text.
Oct 21 2008
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“ It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Oct 20 2008
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MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits
The others are good, but this one struck me as the funniest and most true.
P.S. - I’m back! I was gonna do a long post about where I’ve been, but then I realized I wasn’t even sure if anyone was visting/following/rss’ing me anymore. So, eff it.
[via: pajiba]
