April 2011
I want to go back in time, give my 18-year-old...
1. Quit this “do what you love” bullshit and major in something useful, like accounting. Or if you must persist with this English nonsense, at least do something useful with it. Go to law school.
2. In about a year, someone is going to offer you a large sum of money to marry one of his employees for a green card. DO IT. You’re going to think, “but what about love?”...
“Suggesting that women have abortions for “convenience” diminishes the hard work...”
– Abortion Gang, Inconvenient Dreams (via ghouldilocks)
Boom. Roasted.
Love,
Rabble
(via rabbleprochoice)
RAWR FUCK YEAH!
March 2011
“The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to...”
– GOP presidential hopeful and sexual neologism RICK SANTORUM, as heard on WEZS radio (New Hampshire) and quoted on The Daily Show.
To which Jon Stewart responds “I guess you could then also make the argument that we wouldn’t be in this Social Security predicament in the first place if more Baby...
Watchstfuconservatives:
brooklynmutt:
First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website. Now they want it gone from the whole Internet.
For a couple hours, the local county GOP was successful. But we’ve [TPM] put an excerpt of the video back up.
I can guarantee you, or...
Back up your birth control! →
I once had an experience with a broken condom. I was lucky enough to have a Planned Parenthood office half a mile from my house and a partner who offered to pay for EC. Back up your birth control!
Mac & cheese for lunch.
It’s organic mac & cheese, so that’s healthy, right?
Whining congressman can't make it on his six...
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI): I struggle to meet my bills right now... The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don't even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee. I just experienced that myself. They're not nearly as good.
Constituent: But $174,000 -- that's ... three times what I make.
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It is still my opinion that representatives' salaries should match the median income of their districts. But you know what? Screw that. Put them on $20,000/year and let them forage for health coverage on the private market. They should know how it fucking feels to live in the real world. Sorry, but I'm not long on sympathy today.
hey white people
remnantof:
we’re privileged. we’re ignorant. our ignorance is preserved and rewarded by the system so that we will perpetuate it.
knowing this, and examining privilege, does not remove it. does not change the fact that the experience of POC is something we will never fully grasp, will never deal with, and even if we experience similar slights or microaggressions—they will never be...
Cocoa Puffs for dessert.
Baked Ruffles and barbecue sauce for dinner.
WHAT.
“How is it that rape is the one crime where the victim has to prove they didn’t...”
– Laurenminogue, hellobeautiful.com (via ohwowlook)
Time to Tax America’s Churches →
There is a lot of talk about the ways in which the Government does Christians wrong. Taking prayer out of schools, legalizing abortion and physician-assisted suicide, supporting same-sex marriage, to name a few of the more contested issues.
How come nobody talks about the ways in which the Church does the Government wrong?
Ed Young Jr. is CEO of Fellowship Baptist Church of Grapevine, Texas, a...
RE: Obama Abortion Billboard
stfuconservatives:
“This is an image I whipped up real quick to show how the “what if” argument doesn’t hold up for anti-choicers.”
(submitted by Anon in response to this post)
Acceptable Godwin.
“Last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first...”
– Bill Sammon, Fox News Washington managing editor. The editor of Fox News’ Washington branch went on public airwaves and lied about Obama being a socialist. He knew he lied. He admits he lied. And they’re worried about NPR?!
(via jonathan-cunningham)
Can every single one of us progressives give...
Official Google Blog: Google search now supports... →
With the help of Cherokee Nation staff and community members, we’ve added Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) as an interface language on Google, making a small contribution towards preserving one of the world’s endangered languages.
Cherokee is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people. The Cherokee syllabary writing system was developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. He realized the power of...
Top 10 ways that Libya is not like Iraq →
jonathan-cunningham:
1. The action in Libya was authorized by the United Nations Security Council. That in Iraq was not. By the UN Charter, military action after 1945 should either come as self-defense or with UNSC authorization. Most countries in the world are signatories to the charter and bound by its provisions.
2. The Libyan people had risen up and thrown off the Qaddafi regime, with...
“The aim of the corporate state is not to feed, clothe or house the masses, but...”
– Chris Hedges (via 122782)
On the subject of ladies being pimps.
abbyjean:
minou:
Does anyone ever consider that successful, thirtysomething women who really want to get married/settle down in some way are not simply needy, jealous, living-in-fear-of-dying-alone-Cathy comic-spinsters, or desperate for a ring or a baby before it’s TOO LATE OMG, but rather that maybe we just would really like for someone else to be around to cook dinner and unload the...
It's a little dehumanizing when your conservative...
As much as I truly do enjoy surrounding myself with people who think and believe differently than I do, I think my friends list is in dire need of a scrubbing.
“The first is that true gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A...”
– Fanfic Symposium: When Worlds Collide (via thefuror)
I find myself shocked when women make up more then 1/3 of reoccurring characters :/
(via stfukyriarchy)
this quote is so amazing omgggggg
(via stfufauxminists)
LOVE IT. An ex and I broke up because at the time I felt very strongly about not...
Memo to all girls who call other girls sluts.
beezusishere-:
Your ignorance is showing.
Also, and you should probably clutch your pearls now, women have sexual needs, just like men. Scandalous!
Women are allowed to have healthy, safe sex with whomever they choose. It is none of your fucking business. As long as it’s consensual and safe, there is NOTHING wrong with it. Yes, women can have multiple sexual partners and enjoy the hell out of...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
motherjones:
““As Republicans seek to defund Planned Parenthood and deny vital health care services to American women most in need, they want to spend taxpayer dollars to support crisis pregnancy centers, which have become anti-choice groups’ sneaky alternative to legitimate reproductive health clinics.””
— Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Cal.) in an email to MoJo’s Kate...
jonathan-cunningham:
Sen. Sanders: Ten Companies Avoiding Taxes
While hard working Americans fill out their income tax returns this tax season, General Electric and other giant profitable corporations are avoiding U.S. taxes altogether.
With Congress returning to Capitol Hill on Monday to debate steep spending cuts, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the wealthiest Americans and most profitable...
Blonde and blond are gender specific.
goodreasonnews:
zxad:
flutterknife:
Just as brunette applies to women and brunet to men. In both cases, the feminine form is used for mixed groups.
If you knew this all along, you probably thought everyone else did too.
Just like Watashi and Boku? I’ve often wondered why that is so at all….
I think these masculine/feminine terms are kind of archaic. You never really see blond or brunet...
God is Imaginary →
I just read through the 50 Proofs again. My brain is happy.
Luke 14:33 "Any of you who does not give up...
goodreasonnews:
tenderstatue:
I’m resisting the urge to post this as my Facebook status. I think it would anger my materially comfortable Christian friends and family members. Even the folks who ignore large parts of the old testament and talk about a “new covenant” whenever I call them on the bullshit in Leviticus would have a hard time refuting this verse, I imagine. I would love to make...
Acts 2:44-45 "All the believers were together and...
This one too. It makes Christianity sound like a really awesome hippie commune.
Luke 14:33 "Any of you who does not give up...
I’m resisting the urge to post this as my Facebook status. I think it would anger my materially comfortable Christian friends and family members. Even the folks who ignore large parts of the old testament and talk about a “new covenant” whenever I call them on the bullshit in Leviticus would have a hard time refuting this verse, I imagine. I would love to make everyone squirm,...
Pizza epiphany
My mom and I — who are more like college roommates than mother and daughter — ordered pizza for dinner tonight. When my mom opened her pizza box, I laughed and said, “it looks like someone with OCD put the ground beef on there!” Mom grabbed some slices before I could take a picture, but I swear, the little chunks of beef (my veggie mind just recoiled a little) were evenly...
Looking at the Tumblog Things Organized Neatly...
Actually, I have wanted to do that before, but now I suppose I would have an acceptable excuse for doing so.
I think it's hilarious when my cat burps.
Cats are so dignified otherwise.
gif of the day: Denied
afternoonsnoozebutton:
Holy shit, I’m going to pee myself laughing!
“Because I am a man and will never be pregnant myself or have that decision to...”
– Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: TX Republican Rep. Jeff Wentworth’s reasons for voting against TX sonogram bill (via informate)
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees...”
– Max Ehrmann, American writer, in Desiderata (via livingsimplyliving)
I needed this.
