An Idle Mind: Archive

Peter Beinart Editorial on the Tea Party

A new New York Times poll shows Tea Partiers are grumpy, older, well-off Americans who think white people are oppressed—in other words, Republicans. “Populist,” like “idealist,” is one of those words reporters use when they’ve checked their critical faculties at the door. George W. Bush routinely gets called an “idealist” in foreign policy because he gave soaring speeches on behalf of...

Apr 29th

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Apr 15th

Debt Reducing Game

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1083862p1.html WHAAAAAT

Apr 15th

Apr 13th

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NY Times Op-Ed : Krugman

Krugman’s NY Times Op-ed “Fear Strikes Out” The day before Sunday’s health care vote, President Obama gave an unscripted talk to House Democrats. Near the end, he spoke about why his party should pass reform: “Every once in a while a moment comes where you have a chance to vindicate all those best hopes that you had about yourself, about this country, where you have a chance to make good...

Mar 22nd

Mar 18th

An Idle Mind: Early Toy Story 3 Reactions via... →

ryanmcnamara: FirstShowing: “it is a very wild ride. It’s actually a great story that has a few twists and turns and deviates from the norm quite a bit, but it’s still as great as any other movie from Pixar. I did really enjoy it and have a fun time watching it, but that’s really all there was, nothing more to… You’re gay. It pains me to be called gay by someone who enjoys their cats far...

Mar 18th

Early Toy Story 3 Reactions via /film:

FirstShowing: “it is a very wild ride. It’s actually a great story that has a few twists and turns and deviates from the norm quite a bit, but it’s still as great as any other movie from Pixar. I did really enjoy it and have a fun time watching it, but that’s really all there was, nothing more to make it extraordinary. It’s a bit hard to say, because I love Pixar so much, but it felt like this...

Mar 17th

This is going to sound incredibly creepy, but...

jameshatescoal: I’m trying to find some people for a photo project that I’m doing. Basically, I need a bunch of people to get naked in a forest. I don’t know when I’m going to be doing this, or if I’ll find enough people, but if you wanna get nekkid in the woods get up with me. …golly that sounded creepy. I’d love to pose naked for you, James. It would be beautiful..

Mar 4th

Mar 3rd

Mar 1st

Note to Self:

If I ever want to run for any political office, I must purchase a truck. Trucks seem to scream average Joe and populism. No matter how impractical they actually are…

Mar 1st

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Feb 2nd

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I fear that, I am a slippery slope…

Feb 1st

Jan 19th

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Jan 18th

Surprised

I’m still a little shocked by how good The Book of Eli actually was. My expectations for this movie were EXTREMELY low and the film sported about a 45% on the Rotten Tomatoes website. For anyone who doesn’t know, Rotten Tomatoes is the god of all movie critic review sites. Anyway, the film, except for a few problems (the super dreary color palette and Meg Griffin), was extremely...

Jan 18th

I think I’m the only person who didn’t get a north face coat for christmas

Jan 12th

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Dec 16th

ryanmcnamara: Hey Ryan (High): Look at this woman. http://twitter.com/stoysich There was a recall of 80,000 of the 81 million H1N1 vaccines distributed. This woman insists that we impeach Obama because of it. I looked at her page. Laughed. Had a great time.

Dec 15th

Early Avatar reactions

The Sun’s ‘review, ’ “The final battle scene is 20 minutes long and absolutely mind-blowing,” the paper says. “It is overwhelming, and that is because you are emotionally tied up in the characters and the story.” And Alex Billington from FirstShowing said over Twitter: “James Cameron is a freakin’ genius! I can’t say much but wow, I loved it. Avatar was phenomenal, pretty much blew me...

Dec 10th

Dec 9th

A note on black chads

I have noticed, over my brief period of “working out,” that the black chads are a lot nicer and more courteous than the white chads. For example, a black chad is always offering an “excuse me,” “thanks man,” or “need a spot?” The black chad is usually offering advice or encouragement, such as “good job man,” “nice form,” or...

Dec 9th

The Gym Chad

Most people have probably been to a community gym at least once in their lives. You know the shirts most of the “chads” are wearing, the ones with no sleeves? The chads make these shirts. Some are apparently more skilled than others at this. I heard one chad remark to another chad, “man, brah, (insert interchangeable chad vocabulary word) I just can’t cut my sleeves up as...

Dec 9th

ATTENTION

Slackers beware — I had to read a 400 page book for one of my history classes — one of 3 i had to read— didn’t read just this one. Bought the book rags summary. The summary is HORRIBLE. I mean really bad. Waste of 8 bucks :/

Dec 2nd

Nov 26th

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More New Moon Reviews!

jameshatescoal: I’d be careful if I were you. http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/04/twilight-fans-will-cut-ju-mang gryanhigh: “I can’t comment on the acting because I didn’t catch Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner doing any. They basically primp and pose through the same humdrum motions they did before.” -Rolling Stone haha i’m such a troll Uh o. *deletes post* *locks door* *gets baseball...

Nov 20th

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More New Moon Reviews!

“I can’t comment on the acting because I didn’t catch Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner doing any. They basically primp and pose through the same humdrum motions they did before.” -Rolling Stone haha i’m such a troll

Nov 19th

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http://www.scifimoviepage.com/newmoon.html …sounds riveting — a few choice quotes from the review… “This is still one of the silliest movie franchises out there and one which is totally critic proof. People will still go see it even if there are verifiable reports that watching it makes your eyes bleed. New Moon will make a killing at the box office and maybe I would...

Nov 18th

ATTENTION

Classy women do exist at ECU. They are located in the library. I will be in the library. That is all.

Nov 5th

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Oct 29th

Oct 28th

Why wasn't I told about this...?

http://jaydiohead.com/listen/

Oct 28th

Oct 24th

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Oct 20th

10 Things Global Warming Could Change Forever →

vanessanelms: damn, ya’ll. i never said it was going to end the world. ya’ll are the ones freaking out and jumping to straight to death by the melting of polar ice caps haaa. i just agreed that we’re changing the earth — which you all seem to agree on whether that be ten years or ten thousand. i don’t believe that global warming, if it even exists (which, if you’d pay attention to what i wrote,...

Oct 17th

10 Things Global Warming Could Change Forever →

vanessanelms: Yeah, it doesn’t matter if it’s the next thousand or the next year, I feel like our advancements are our environment’s weakness. But wouldn’t you want to be concerned for future generations? If it is legit, I would at least want to try to do something to stop it. I don’t think it’s dumb. Or dumb to consider it a possibility. And I’m not standing on a platform telling anyone to...

Oct 16th

Oct 14th

ryanmcnamara: sarahmoore: ryanmcnamara: sarahmoore: ryanmcnamara: I think I’d like to move to Raleigh. do it. raleigh rules. Think I should look into it? How’s the cost of living over there? Would the big scary real world eat me alive? its really not bad at all. and i live downtown, even. most everywhere, if you have a roommate will run you about 300 a month. fyi. i love living here....

Oct 8th

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Watch

This movie looks NUTS. Terry Gilliam is insane. I’d be scared to spend one day in his head. I guess this was Heath Ledger’s last role…I think Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell all play the same character — anyway — it looks crazy

Oct 7th

My God.

ryanmcnamara: It only took 21 years, but my body is finally changing. THIS IS AWESOME. Chad :) BAAAH

Oct 6th