May 2010
April 2010
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Hey Ladies!!!! Florida just passed a bill that... →
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and...”
– Gandhi (via caraobrien)
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Ah Facebook. You little shit. How will you...
Deep Breaths →
I am at one of those points in which your whole life hinges on the changes I need to make today, holding hostage my future to the inner inability to get ‘krunk’ on my own ass and elevate the…
“I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night...”
– Pablo Neruda (via worldonfire)
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“Sacrificing your dreams at the altar of reality is a rite of passage for...”
– DearCokeTalk , Tumblr advice blogger that rocks my world, gives the straight shit, and pulls no punches.
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off....”
– Bob Marley (via caraobrien)
One Love, Bob. We miss you. Even after Death, you have yet to take a day off. Thank you.
Joseph Leonardo: re: Squashed: Drill Baby, Drill... →
abcsoupdot:
josephleonardo:
squashed:
So, funny story about off-shore drilling. Actually, it’s more catastrophic than funny. But it does reveal a few things about how we behave in the face of a disaster.
We want the government to intervene in problems caused by private industry.
We want the federal government to do everything it can to help out specific states.
We want to make sure there...
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig. (via learninglog) (via andshewas) (via oh-ew) (via notemily)
i think i’ve posted this before, but it bears a repeat.
(via so-treu)
(via rickeylaurentiis)
…Oh wow, I’ve never heard that before…Wow. This is making me question things, too!
(via chaichangechaos)
Not to stir up any...
Mississippi Goddamn: High School Erases Lesbian...
naomiwaxman:
eatingcheese:
Different high school, different lesbian student, same bigoted fucksticks:
When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center’s Yearbook on Friday, she didn’t find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school’s 2010 yearbook. “They didn’t even put her...
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In light oz the AZ shitstorm of immigration law... →
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A homeless good Samaritan was stabbed & left to... →
caraobrien:
cdangt:
NEW YORK – The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body.
One person passed by in the early morning. Then another, and another. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk. One even...
“Though other states have passed similar measures forcing women to have...”
– Oklahoma Passes Constraints on Abortion - NYTimes.com
So. Much. Rage.
This is transparent. This is morally repugnant. And this is why, when some dumb fuck on whatever forum or at whatever social gathering decides he’s (and it’s usually a he) going to debate me about reproductive rights, I am not...
It happens more than you think →
rabbleprochoice:
A few days ago, I posted a link to an article talking about a ten year old girl in Mexico who was raped and needed an abortion. It caused some debate and the person I was responding to questioned how often ten year olds need abortions vs. the slutty women who only want to keep their figures and not go through the “inconvenience” of having and raising a baby.
The article above...
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Monday Morning Cup of Joe
Monday morning is probably the time of the week that coffee is most needed. Sunday morning the time when it is enjoyed the most. Its really kind of shitty to shift like that on consecutive days.
Folger’s Brazillian is warming my cup and self up right now, Yum, as always.
Today my baby girl is 11 months old (I never did the ‘age by weeks’ thing), and while this might seem an...
Excerpt from Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
“……but maybe you can leave something good behind you.”
She barked empty laughter at him. “What do we leave behind but things left not done, not said, not finished ? Empty clothes, empty rooms, empty spaces in the ones who knew us? Mistakes not made right and hopes rotted down to nothing?”
The Examined Life, Age 8 →
abcsoupdot:
A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study of syllogism or solipsism. Instead, Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg and his undergraduate students from nearby Mount Holyoke College use classic children’s books to raise philosophical...
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my...”
– Maya Angelou
The Only Channel I have blocked from my children...
POO POWER: Researchers Make Crude Oil Out of Pig... →
abcsoupdot:
Pig manure: it’s good for more than just smelling up pig pens. Researchers from the University of Illinois and Innoventor have figured out a way to make crude oil out of the pungent stuff — and one day, the process could even yield pig manure-derived biodiesel. Instead of taking 10,000 years to produce oil the old-fashioned way, the researchers have managed to produce their bio-oil...
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via caraobrien)
Akha Tribe, Burma: Sterilization and Blood Theft...
abcsoupdot:
selchieproductions:
nonestterranullius:
© The Akha Foundation
Rumoured widely for many years, witnesses have now stepped forward who claim that the American Baptist Missionary Paul Lewis sterilized more than 20,000 Akha Hill Tribe women in Burma’s Eastern Shan State alone. This was done secretly without the approval of the Burmese government by requiring the women to go into...
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Falling Stars (The New American Space Program)
This has become a regular point of emphasis for me, to notice and relate some ideal or area of pride from my youth and shed light on the illusion that it persists. Having pride in being the ‘leader in the space race’ comes with being a child in this country (or at least it did), and to see the efforts and advancements stagnate with the inviolate decrepitude of the Space Shuttle...
