In "Always record your synchronicities:"

There are about 500,000 seconds in a waking week. Say you have about a single perception a second; then the chances of having a 1 in 500,000 miracle are quite good, every single week. Good lord! Think of the kind of miracles you could have in one year. The chances of that happening are 1 in a billion! And it happened! No, I kid. Who knows. Though if you're a twin, you might be talking about birthdays more than most.

In "Bowling for Calvin"

and also: "Other school shooters on antidepressants at the time of their attacks include 15-year-old Elizabeth Bush, on "antidepressants" when she wounded one student at Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa.; and 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, on Effexor and Celexa when he wounded one teacher and three students at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Calif."

"According to the manufacturer, Solvay, 4% of children and youth taking Luvox developed mania during short-term controlled clinical trials. Mania is a psychosis which can produce bizarre, grandiose, highly elaborated destructive plans, including mass murder."

In "Scientists claim to have found a way to please everyone in the stem-cell research debate by making embryos that cannot develop into human beings."

"These embryos contain two sets of chromosomes from the mother, but none from the father and so are unable to develop into babies." Why? That's a huge leap to make without explicating... as far as I recall, cells don't differentiate where the chromosome material came from, as long as they have enough to work with. And as far as I recall, most (uh, all) females have enough chromosomes to form a complete instruction set. Little help? (or, what ThreeDayMonk said)

In "The Battle for America"

i can't believe this is happening in my own town.

In "This made me feel sad, a bit of the natural world taken from the city. "

As a fairly avid birdwatcher in NYC the past few years (though recently relocated), I have to say: I'm not too worried. There are plenty of other red-taileds in the city - in most cities, in fact - and the famous guy will surely find a new place to build a nest. There's a pair that lives in Morningside Park that built their home in the cathedral (on the head of one of the statues facing the park. nice). So the actual birds, I'm not worried about. The removal of the nest, on the other hand, is assinine and a sad example of how too many folks in the world view wildlife. Ugh. What were they thinking?? Nobody should knowingly pick a fight with Mary Tyler Moore. NOBODY!!

In "We're taking over the world"

andrew w.k.'s "the wolf." most earnestly inspirational rock album ever.

In "What is an American movie now?"

"this one time, we were all hanging out in my basement partying, and i had a handle of vot-ka, and nobody else wanted to drink vot-ka with me. but then mark came over, and he wanted to drink the vot-ka, and it made me really happy because i finally found somebody to drink vot-ka with."

In "Your prognostication please: "

Kerry 295 (49.4%) - Bush 243 (49.5%)

In "O'Reilly Competitor Offers to Buy O'Reilly/Mackris Tapes to Prevent Them From Being Destroyed!"

i've found that if something is truly interesting/important, somebody other than the initial author will post it on that other place (and vice versa). to replicate the post word-for-word in two different places seems, to me, like self-linking.

i do feel fairly safe in assuming that everybody who reads monkeyfilter also heads over to that other site sometimes. and if they don't it's MOST LIKELY because they're sick of all the political nonsense that's been posted recently. so, you know, i would hope we could keep that in mind before ctrl-c'ing and ctrl-v'ing.

In "Jon Stewart's commencement speech at William & Mary"

Monkeyfilter: smart, compassionate, and open-minded. And all of that's on top of being really, really funny. The world is a better place because it's in it.

In "Cats... who watch... cats"

I'll be you'll love this site.

In "Can swine help your ailing Aunt Fannie?"

But is it Kosher?

In "Sinclair Broadcasting Group censored a Nightline program"

I think the biggest kicker is that the guy who runs the Sinclair group was arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution. Speaking of indecent....

In "Make Your Own Soda! Stick It To The Soft Drink Cartels! Impress Your Friends This Summer!"

Coca cola still contains extract from the coca leaves; they are one of the only companies in America that has a license to import the stuff. obviously, it's de-drugged before added.... OR IS IT?

In "Control a remote arm"

yeah, but, uh... where's the chicken (rim-shot). [on preview, Wedge: i'm going to KILL you. I NEED TO BUILD A TOWER!!]

In "Who knew he could draw as well as he sang?"

Once, I was eating in a cafe in denver. my friends and i had just paid the bill and were standing in the entrance when a large black man walked over and stood with us. after a moment of silence, he turned to my friend and said "hi, i'm wesley willis." my friend introduced himself. then wesley said, "nice to meet you." then he went and sat down.. no head butt. to this day i wonder if he expected us to know who he was, or if he was just being friendly.

In ""

and if you don't like to run, you can always ride your bike. [NSFW... sorry, i'm not crediting where i found this because i've since forgotten. shame on me!]

In "Show me that smile again."

I'm trying to draw the distinction between people who follow a particular faith for themselves and those who force it on others, nothing more. Just think about that. Have a little empathy.

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