December 2011
4 posts
“I’m a Marine and I’m not going to run from a fight. You wouldn’t want a Marine...”
– Florida-based Marine vet Lt. Col Karl Trenker • Discussing how he got shot, days before Christmas, in a Craigslist-transaction-gone-bad. The Iraq and Afghanistan vet’s fiance tried selling a man’s gold-chain necklace, but Trenker offered to make the transaction due to safety concerns, which turned...
Dec 31st
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“The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.”
– Steven Spielberg (via doctorwho)
Dec 24th
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ShortFormBlog: San Francisco's new minimum wage... →
shortformblog: $10.24 San Francisco’s new minimum wage source » Happy New Year, indeed. Starting Jan. 1, San Francisco’s minimum hourly wage will jump above the $10 mark for the first time. That’s about $3 higher than the federal minimum wage and higher than anywhere else in the country, due to the… I literally just said ‘whoa’ outloud.
Dec 13th
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Dec 8th
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