View Larger First V-Day as a single lady in quite some time. So tonight, it’s frozen pizza for dinner (something I never eat!), a huge bottle of red wine, the cutest chocolate mini cupcake from Lucia’s, and a viewing of Blue Valentine.
Plage de Temps
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Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy
Out of character, out of this world.
(by teridon)
Love NdT. A bit long but there are many great moments, so watch to the end.
Cats doing things.
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View Larger Paris-based photographer Tierry Cohen imagines what cities would look like without light pollution.
The administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon…. Even though the United States doesn’t have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we’ve got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we’re building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun.
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Paul Shawcross, chief of the Office of Management and Budget’s Science and Space Branch, responding to a petition encouraging the United States to build a Death Star.
Another reason listed for opposing the Death Star construction?
“Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?”
This White House is the best White House.
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