December 2010
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“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”
– Edgar Wallace (via mityelpoc)
—Haha. Sounds like he didn’t get any. Equally interesting, perhaps.
Reminds me of Dorothy Parker, who supposedly said while on her honeymoon, to an editor who was asking about a deadline she’d missed: “Tell him I’m too fucking busy. Or...
“Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same...”
– Ron Paul, Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act (via notemily)
I hate when I agree with an R. Paul. But this is proof it happens.
(via apsies)
Institute the same rules for Air Force One, and let’s see how he likes having the TSA grope HIS girls.
(via tennroof)
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“Y’know that, women, never really faint.”
– The Velvet Underground (Sweet Jane)
—I was listening to this just the other day and heard this line for the first time.
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November 2010
63 posts
tennroof:
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
“It turns out that once you do voice opposition to prejudicial behavior, the...”
– Psychologist on ABC’s ‘What Would You Do?’ (via fuckyeahlgbt)
DR Congo police on trial for killing Floribert... →
fyeahafrica:
The trial has started of eight officers charged with the murder of prominent human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They are accused of killing Floribert Chebeya, head of the charity Voice of the Voiceless, in June.
His body was found bound and gagged in the back of his car after being called to a meeting with police chief John Numbi, which did not take...
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Women's Health and Women's Leadership in Academic... →
“Throughout U.S. history, many advances in women’s health have been led by women. As reviewed by Carol Weisman,10 past women’s health movements initiated and sustained by women include (1) the Popular Health Movement in the early to mid-1800s (which included advocating corsetless clothing), (2) the post-Civil War women’s medical movement, in which the first generation of...
You guys. →
A match made in heaven? That Tavi is quite the 14-year-old.
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missworld:
tulletulle:
No, really.
YOU GUYS.
I am alllllllllllllllllllllllllll over this. I just sent an email.
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aubade:
Once I had my heroes Once I had my dream...
tennroof:
Might want to turn it up a bit.
Pink...
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“Those who advocate against cultural appropriation often assume the definition of...”
– –Richard Fung, Summer 1993, “Working Through Cultural Appropriation,” FUSE MagazineV. XVI n 5+6, 16-24, excerpted here to situate what is significant and specific to the indigenous “condition” of being historically subject to forcible alienability.
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“We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know
that we will...”
– Sam Harris - The End Of Faith (via zackarooo)
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“How do I justify the choices that I make as I lift up certain strands within...”
– Judith Plaskow, “Authority, Resistance, and Transformation: Jewish Feminist Reflections on Good Sex” in Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions (via vladislava)
S.F. to McDonald's: No Happy Meal toys in the city... →
11/2/10: “San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors today passed a controversial proposal that would ban toys and other marketing incentives from children’s food — like McDonald’s Happy Meals — unless those meals met the city’s nutritional guidelines that limit fat, salt, sugar and calorie content. In a statement before the vote, city Supervisor Bevan Dufty...
“But art born of cynicism is poison to my spirit, so whenever I am not working,...”
– Douglas Wright - Terra Incognito (via bridgettelizabeth)
The People You Meet When You Write About Rape
moreapologies:
From pervocracy:
I could not have said this better in a lifetime. Every post about rape on an major blog is littered with comments from one or all of these people.
Mr. What About The Men “The real problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of...
