November 2010
8 posts
Urge the President and Congress to stop...
On December 1st, World AIDS Day, we must take action to save women’s lives. Right now, young women are rapidly becoming the face of AIDS. Urge the President and Congress to stop abstinence-only programs that are helping to spread AIDS.
Today, women make up an ever increasing proportion of adults living with HIV/AIDS.
Globally, young adults, ages 15–24, account for approximately HALF of...
Zestra. →
coketalk:
It’s not a diet salad dressing. It’s a female arousal oil for which the networks refuse to run advertising. How odd, considering the fact that primetime television is brimming with geriatrics yammering on about four hour erections.
This rather blatant gender-based double standard has more than a few people wondering out loud to network executives, why are vaginas so scary?
I’m kind...
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Cognitive Dissonance: Rand Paul, STFU →
cognitivedissonance:
Rand Paul was saying there’s no rich and poor in America. And that we’re all interconnected. This was in defense of tax cuts for the rich.
Please, magical universe karma - transform Rand Paul into a non-white single mother looking for a job with a sick baby, overdue bills, and with no HS Diploma….
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cocknbull:
I Hate This Mess: You can burn me at the stake for this…
shonecakepastrypie:
growbeards:
But I said it before, and it looks like science has backed me up.
Men are more intelligent than women.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-405056/Men-intelligent-women-claims-new-study.html
According to a recent study, men have an I.Q…
Someone else must’ve pointed...
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It wasn’t God that created the human ‘I’ →
This is an article that examines what makes life meaningful. It was posted at my board, in a discussion about abortion and personhood.
IMO, the article establishes, in its own terms, very clearly, that a fetus cannot be a person, before 24 weeks:
A quick answer is that we need receptors in the skin to detect threats to tissue and those receptors need to be connected to parts of the brain ...
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The Election Story Not Told →
If the media failed to discuss in detail the law’s less attractive points, it also missed one of the campaign’s biggest ironies. Republicans, with their repeal and replace slogans, stirred up discontent about a law that was basically built with Republican and conservative ideas. That irony escaped the media. Right after Congress passed the law, former labor secretary Robert Reich wrote a column on...
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October 2010
43 posts
I was born in 1989. I'm like the endangered...
the-madame-hatter:
-dreamalittlebiggerdarling:
caughtinacelluloidjam:
fullonswayzeed:
AND YOU’RE ALL A BUNCH OF YOUNGINS.
1989? Pshh I was born in 1986. I’ve already graduated from college when most of tumblr is not even finished with high school yet.
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGTHY FIVE BITCHES!!!!!
ALL YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS GET THE HALL OFF MY LAWN!!!!
1984
Ha! Infants! ...
I'm up, I'm washed, I'm coffeed, I'm dressed
and I’m rockin my purple shirt.
Now, I’m venturing forth into the land.
See youse guise, later.
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“Sen. Claire McCaskill is on the fainting couch over Jack Conway’s hard hitting...”
– Taylor Marsh, Jack Conway Ad Makes Dems Faint (via apsies)
steampunkanachronism:
waifsworld:
steampunkanachronism replied to your post: It must be tomorrow, somewhere
It switched at exactly 12:00AM EDT (who had to stay at the home office in NY to flip the purple switch?)
Oh, I bet they could program it to come on at any time. It’s a nice touch.
I think it should be a new postiion. The purple switch flipper. They wouldn’t have to pay a lot.
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steampunkanachronism replied to your post: It must be tomorrow, somewhere
It switched at exactly 12:00AM EDT (who had to stay at the home office in NY to flip the purple switch?)
Oh, I bet they could program it to come on at any time. It’s a nice touch.
It must be tomorrow, somewhere
Cuz tumblr. is purple.
Nice.
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wild child, full of grace: Today in Rape Culture →
sisterhoodispowerful:
Rah, rah, sis boom bah: Silsbee High School in Texas wants their cheerleaders smiling, energetic, and willing to cheer for their rapists by name. Go team! H.S., a Silsbee student, reported being raped by Rakheem Bolton with the help of two of his friends, a fellow student and athletic star. In…
This is truly outrageous, but it certainly illustrates the lack of...
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never sleep; never die.: 5 Things I'd Like... →
banditoincognito:
In no specific order of importance, here are some facts about the pro-choice movement that pro-lifers and on-the-fencers should know.
1.) Pro-Choice does not SUPPORT abortion, but rather the option to have it. Pro-choicers do not force anyone to do anything unlike in pro-life, where unless it’s…
More’s the pity that Pro-choice does not support abortion. Because of that...
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Make calls for Barbara Boxer
Boxer’s campaign just called and asked me to volunteer, but I am not available. The office is in Hollywood, CA. If you have the time and the desire, call Emma, at the volunteer office at: 323-836-0820 to volunteer your time to help make calls and reelect Barbara Boxer.
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Padaviya: Visualizing the Fetus (via Sociological... →
thecityhorse:
padaviya:
You have likely seen the image above. The photograph of a 20-week old fetus was taken by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson. Another of his photographs graced the cover of Life magazine in April of 1965:
Nilsson’s images forever changed the way that people think about…
… wow.
I don’t know why I find this so suprising, it shouldn’t be in the slightest but to...
When in Doubt, Shout →
A seminal case study by Festinger found, paradoxically, that evidence that disconfirmed religious beliefs increased individuals’ tendency to proselytize to others. Although this finding is renowned, surprisingly, it has never been subjected to experimental scrutiny and is open to multiple interpretations. We examined a general form of the question first posed by Festinger, namely, how does shaken...
Stephanie Dabney
I found it. Her name. The name of the magnificent ballerina.
Stephanie Dabney
The Firebrid
Dance Theatre of Harlem
I’ll now be able to sleep, tonight.
Re: This post
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You don't own me...: borednschooled: In ballet,... →
borednschooled:
In ballet, blacks are still chasing a dream of diversity
NEW YORK — In 1933 Lincoln Kirstein wrote a passionate 16-page letter to his friend A. Everett Austin Jr., the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, introducing a man named George Balanchine…
NYCB was my favorite ballet. I like them much better than ABT. I would get annual subscriptions and...
cijimcb:
waifsworld:
cijimcb:
waifsworld:
cijimcb: There is nothing wrong with having privilege.
cijimcb:
Having privilege doesn’t mean you are inherently evil, unless you wield said privilege to do evil things. Having privilege doesn’t mean you are inherently racist, unless you wield said privilege to do/say/think racist things.
Having privilege doesn’t mean you are need to be ashamed...
cijimcb:
waifsworld:
cijimcb: There is nothing wrong with having privilege.
cijimcb:
Having privilege doesn’t mean you are inherently evil, unless you wield said privilege to do evil things. Having privilege doesn’t mean you are inherently racist, unless you wield said privilege to do/say/think racist things.
Having privilege doesn’t mean you are need to be ashamed of it, unless…
Fuck. ...
cijimcb: There is nothing wrong with having... →
cijimcb:
Having privilege doesn’t mean you are inherently evil, unless you wield said privilege to do evil things. Having privilege doesn’t mean you are inherently racist, unless you wield said privilege to do/say/think racist things.
Having privilege doesn’t mean you are need to be ashamed of it, unless…
Fuck. If I had any brains at all, I’d stay the hell out of this discussion,...
carnivaloftherandom replied to your photo
I wouldn’t quite have figured you for a Lucius/Snape fangirl. ;p
Ha! I would love to be the stuffing in that sammich, lemme tell ya. :)
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Don Henley ~ My Thanksgiving
I finally got around...
sexartandpolitics:
shockingly the administration will appeal the DADT ruling. HRC continues to be useless. Hopey changey.
Agree on the DADT appeal. But the HCR is not useless, viz:
“Death Panel” Reversed
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“If only one person in the world held down a terrified, struggling, screaming...”
– Donald Symons (via cocknbull)
"Death Panel" Reversed
clairecmc:
This letter to the editor caught my eye today. It was published in the Kansas City Star this morning. I wanted to share it.
Death panel’ reversed
Recently, we had occasion to meet with a transplant team in a local medical center. One of the team members discretely mentioned a recent consequence of the dreaded Obamacare.
Earlier, an insurance company representing the center’s...
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Injunction strikes down enforcement of DADT - Air Force News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Air Force Times http://t.co/RH6wcwb
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Expert versus beginner →
bobulate:
Have you ever noticed that you can remember perfectly well what someone said to you, but you don’t remember exactly what words she used? … Most of the time, we aren’t interested in mere wording; we are interested in what was said, that is, meaning, the subject matter. Our indifference to wording is a symptom of our expertise. Only beginners needs to pay attention to words and their...
Reblog this.
princessaxnet:
The Suicide Hotline: 1-800-SUICIDE
The Veteran’s Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-TALK
The Trevor Project (Suicide Hotline for LGBT Youth): 1-866-4-U-TREVOR
Please reblog this, reach as many people with this info as you can.
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The sooner I start writing my book, the more my...
inothernews:
“It was the best of blogs, it was the worst of blogs…”
“It was a dark and bloggy night. Suddenly, a meme rang out…” ~ waif
First World Feminism: No More Models →
michellehaimoff:
Brigitte, Germany’s most popular women’s magazine, has banned models from its pages. According to Editor-in-Chief, Andreas Lebert, the models were getting so skinny Brigitte was using Photoshop to fatten them up. By featuring “real life” women, the magazine is aiming to present relatable…
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Rove's Money Tramples Democracy →
In this first post-Citizens United election, voters are the victims of a crime against democracy that the government seems unable, or unwilling, to stop despite it occurring right before our eyes.
Organizations are being set up under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code to manipulate the outcome of the mid-term elections. A 501(c)(4) is a lobbying organization that is not allowed to...
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The Sayings of the Jewish Buddha :)
* If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? * Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? * Drink tea and nourish life; with the first sip, joy; with the second sip, satisfaction; with the third sip, peace; with the fourth, a Danish. * Wherever you go, there ...
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tennroof:
Time of the Season - The Zombies
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jmarie3:
Joey—Concrete Blonde
(yes, I’m...
And I'm to bed
tennroof:
I hope everyone enjoyed this evening’s episode of songs I grew up on.
Sweet dreams.
Great stuff. You’re younger than I, by a couple years, I think, based on the music. :)
tennroof:
I’m just gonna make you click on this...
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