December 2011
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Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with... →
face-down-asgard-up:
sanityscraps:
tellwiddit:
State-sanctioned rape by deception in the UK.
That’s fucking disgusting.
WHAT
It’s fucking gross to use people people like that
I love that they keep saying in the article that activists live promiscuous lifestyles. Like, what does that even mean? And why does that make it ok to lie to people, have sex with them under false pretenses,...
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Where morals come to die: How to find textbooks... →
obsessionfull:
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your…
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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“My perfect date night: I pick you up. In my Kia Sorrento. You get in. There’s...”
– – Aziz Ansari, aka Tom Haverford on “Parks & Recreation,” describes his perfect date to People
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2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark →
“The government has been using its secrecy system in absurd ways for decades, but 2011 was particularly egregious. Here are a few examples:
Government report concludes the government classified 77 million documents in 2010, a 40% increase on the year before. The number of people with security clearances exceeded 4.2. million, more people than the city of Los Angeles.
Government tells Air...
The New Professionalism →
Maybe there’s a legitimate law enforcement reason to strip a man naked, strap him to a chair, tie a “spit hood” around his mouth, put a hood over his head (see video at the link), and douse him with pepper spray until he dies. That’s what sheriff’s deputies in Lee County, Florida did to 62-year-old Nick Christie two-and-a-half years ago.
I certainly can’t think of any such legitimate reason....
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A guy in my psychology class said he thought...
Me: Okay so if orientation is a choice, choose to be gay, right now.
Him: No.
Me: Why not?
Him: Because I don't find men attractive
Me: So CHOOSE to find them attractive
Him: ....... I can't.
Me: Sorry, WHAT was that? You CAN'T????
Dine Out Ethically: Find Out Which Restaurants... →
Now, diners have a new tool to tell the ethical restaurants from the grimy ones. Just in time for the new year, Restaurant Opportunities Center United has created a National Diners’ Guide to 186 of the most popular restaurants in the country [PDF]. The guide rates restaurants based on tipped worker wages, non-tipped worker wages, paid sick days, and opportunity for advancement—like Zagat for...
“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer...”
– ~Ruth Stout (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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Interviewer: Tell us about your relationship with Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law: Oh, I love him.
Interviewer: You have a bit of a bromance going on there.
Jude Law: What is this new term everybody's using? That's a horrible term. What about just a 'romance'?
Interviewer: No, that's not the same, 'cos then you'd have to star in a romantic comedy together or something.
Jude Law: We just have! Have you not seen it?
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Watchlgbtlaughs:
The Colbert Report- Rick Perry’s Pro-Christmas Ad
Stephen Colbert makes fun of Rick Perry’s recent homophobic ad.
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“The continued devotion of Oscar Wilde’s fans more than 100 years after his...”
– Oscar Wilde’s Tomb Walled Off From Kisses
“I’m not burning for you. It is the lighter fluid
five feet away from the fuse...”
– Jesse Bradley - There is No Poetry Without the ‘O’ (via bonemachine-)
The Ghost of Boyfriends Past - NYTimes.com →
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
likethedew:
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bohemiansouth:
Gail Collins writes:
New unnerving development in Congress: Some senators are claiming that a woman nominated to be ambassador to El Salvador can’t have the job because they don’t like a boyfriend she lived with almost 20 years ago.
These days, it’s hard enough to get kids to understand the possible future employment...
“+ Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have...”
– Random Thoughts of People Our Age by Aaron Karo
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How Doctors Die
“It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves.”
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Out-of-Body Experience: Master of Illusion →
It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. But such experiences are routine in the lab of Henrik Ehrsson, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who uses illusions to probe, stretch and displace people’s sense of self. Today, using little more than a video camera, goggles and two sticks, he has convinced me...
“Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451 (via cultureofresistance)
Hell Yeah Feminism: Feminism →
feministdisney:
rachelgabrielle:
Feminism is for atheists. Feminism is for Jews, both ethnic and religious. Feminism is for Muslims. Feminism is for pagans. Feminism is forBaha’i feminists. Feminism is for Mormons. Feminism is for Unitarian Universalists. Feminism is…