This a Moonmelon, scientifically knows as asidus. This fruit grows in some parts of Japan, and is known for its vibrant blue color. What you probably don’t know about this fruit is that it can switch flavors after you eat it. Everything sour will taste sweet, everything salty will taste bitter, and it gives water a strong orange-like taste. It’s also very expensive…costing about ￥16000 JPY (which is about 200 dollars).
or you know this could be photoshopped
but idk
you tell me
this is alexandrias melon (wow)
it never grows seeds but it can still produce other melons (its magic)
it is grown deep in the jungles of peru and can prevent you from aging well into the hundreds
it is known by the natives there as k’uhul ajaw cacao shi-jiiy.
its really strange how all of these pictures look exactly the same because everything on the internet is true
This is the Peppermeloni. (seriously gosh just look at that sexy mother fucker) Its scientific name is Tumblrous Pepperonus.
The only known specimen is in a pot in David Karps treasure dungeon. It is a tradition that a single slice is given to every tumblr blog that reaches 500,000 followers.
It has the remarkable property of being as healthy as watermelon but tasting like cheesy pepperoni pizza.
This planet is really just so amazing guys wow.
Patrickmelon
The taste of this melon will always surprise you.
These peppermeloni dreams go on when I close my eyes.
I <3 the Internet, especially when Tumblr remembers that Google and Photoshop exist.
(Source: tumblr.com)
Classic Luntz
So Frank Luntz, the spinmeister extraordinaire for the Republican Party, the man who invented the “death tax” as a scary name for the “inheritance tax” (we’re all going to die and so might pay the “death tax,”
but few will pay an inheritance tax), got caught saying the thing most Republicans know but are afraid to say: Rush Limbaugh’s extremism, combined with the size of his audience, makes him a big problem for the Republican Party’s electoral chances going forward.In other words, to the degree that Limbaugh drives the Republican message to the ever-harder right, he makes it harder for Republicans to appeal for votes from the actually growing parts of the electorate: women, minorities, etc.
Having been caught — his comments were taped despite his request that his comments be off the record — Luntz has now engaged in classic Luntz: he’s attacking the fact that the comments were taped in the first place.
In Luntz’ account, since he asked that his comments be off the record constituted a contract of some sort or other with the audience that the audience was honor bound to follow (whether they agreed to it or not). Failing to honor this contract constituted a violation of trust that cannot go unpunished.
What Luntz has in mind here is plain as day: he wants you to shift your gaze away from the fact that he (Luntz) told an uncomfortable truth, and look only at the “fact” that Luntz was “victimized” by some secret taper.
Don’t fall for it. Frank Luntz told the truth. For once. Honor him for it. And if it happens to start a flame war with the Limbaugh fanatics, just sit back and enjoy the fireworks.
1. Overview of all salvaged paper. I’m sure there’s a ton more but we didn’t pull up any more flooring to discover it (nor was there time to indulge in such acts).
2. Political cartoons. “You may be the choice of the people but you give me a pain in the neck.” Not much has changed in 93 years.
4-5. Everyone needs a Victorla, from 25$—1500$. 1,500$ in 1920 is 17,000$ in today’s dollars. Wildly expensive for in-home entertainment.
6. “Every well dressed women’s thoughts turn to the selection of a stylish frock” Men have been telling women how they (the men) like the women to dress for quite a long time—assuming that no women worked in advertising in 1920. Peggy Olsen not being born until 1939.
7. Close up of comics.
8. Cupid Does Jazz Step
9. Romance of 57 Years Ago To End In Wedding. Which seems at first like an Onion headline, but, the article describes a couple who met in 1863 and were engaged but then weren’t. They each married another and then when her husband and his wife finally passed they were reunited and married when they were both finally 70something years old. That’s romance. That’s newsworthy.
What we do, a lot, is bemoan the state of journalism, from the NY Times offensive hipster Sunday features, A. Huffington, to twitter bylines, Buzzfeed hijacking people’s stories—it’s all awful. But it’s awful because we allow awful journalism to proliferate. I don’t know. There’s no easy answer. Read the news that’s provided by people who support the values you associate with? I like Mother Jones a lot. But anyway, in 1920 the day’s news was worth no more that being stuffing for lining the wood floors. It was buried under 5 inches of tile, linoleum, wood. For us, it’s a little window into what Philadelphia was like 93 years ago. The boys had come home from WWI, the 20’s we just starting to swing and no one had any idea what a stock market crash, depression, and Second World War would be like. Anyway, how are you changing the world around you today? Because our lives and actions can mean something, you guys.
“But it’s awful because we allow awful journalism to proliferate.” Never has a truer statement been made.
(Source: muckyknees)
John Brennan confirmed as CIA director
Washington Post: John Brennan has been confirmed as CIA direcotr after Sen. Rand Paul said he was satisfied with the response he had received to his questions about the Obama administration’s drone program.
Paul engaged in a nearly 13-hour talking filibuster against Brennan’s nomination on Wednesday. The filibuster ended after midnight Thursday morning.
Photo: John Brennan testifies before a Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing for CIA director on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
