Eight things I loved about May

I have found myself systematically eliminating grumpypants types from my Twitter feed because of their inane Olympics hating. It’s the Olympics, for the love of Pete! How terribly dead inside are you that you would genuinely sit there and complain about the Olympics? It’s the Olympics! I feel actual sadness for you — to be so utterly devoid of the capacity to feel happiness. What do you do in the morning? Kick a few puppies before your breakfast of wood shavings, then bathe in your own effluent?

legrandcirque:

Teenage girls in Minnesota, USA, May 1924.

“And when that 16th minute comes I won’t hate myself.”

Watsky- 4AM Monday (Live) (by gwatsky)

theatlantic:

For the First Time Ever, a Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College

Everybody is looking for the next big “bubble”. Maybe it’s bonds. Or tech stocks. Or … college? With tuition soaring and job prospects not, a growing chorus thinks higher education might just be too big not to fail. The calculus is simple. If college costs keep rising, but job prospects don’t improve, eventually higher education won’t be worth it. Pop goes the campus bubble — or so the story goes.

That brings us to one of the more inauspicious recent headlines. For the first time ever, the majority of the unemployed have attended some college. Does this mark some kind of inflection point? Is it time to ditch the classroom for the office? Not exactly. […]

The chart above isn’t a story about a college degree no longer paying off. The chart above is a story about more people going to college, but not nearly as many more people finishing college.

Read more. [Image: IBD, via Business Insider]

(via mprnews)

derpityderp:

nevver:

She’s so tuff

Minnesota Mugshots

Women Who Loved You (new original by Danielle Ate the Sandwich) (by daniellesmagic)

ideologikal:

Brother Ali – Not A Day Goes By (Prod. By Jake One)

Russia in color, a century ago - Imgur

Colour photos taken in southern and central Russia between 1909 and 1912.

Eight things I loved about April

In America, this programme would somehow involve things catching on fire and, perhaps, a fair bit of shouting. In Britain, this programme is just three blokes in a kitchen, each staring intently at potatoes and lettuce — sweating profusely as they attempt to balance said items on a bit of carrot.

She has not seen the pan

In addition to the four herons who are nesting and raising their babies in her pecan tree, she’s had a couple of episodes with bats inside the house.  The first involved a bat that was flying, running into the ceiling, knocking itself out.