August 2011
215 posts
My stomach hurts because I haven't eaten a lot,...
Ouch.
July 2011
157 posts
Wisconsin: Gov. Scott Walker cuts DMV in Dem... →
stfuconservatives:
annikaleigh:
stfusexists:
The Wisconsin legislature is finalizing a bill to close ten Department of Motor Vehicle centers located in Democratic districts within the state. The money saved will be used to extend operating hours at DMV centers in Republican districts. These cuts come on the heels of new voter ID laws that require voters to present a state-issued photo...
My Mom berated me for being so skinny.
How fun.
What I mean when I talk about "racism"
osolibre:
The other day I got an [angry, condescending] anonymous message saying that a claim I had made online that only white people can enact racism was “patently untrue.” The anonymous writer backed this up by saying that racism was discrimination, prejudice, or hate based on one’s race. I strongly, passionately disagree with this definition. Here’s why. I’m a mixed person—my mother is a...
fatvirginsuicide:
Some Fat Facts
redefiningbodyimage:
captainporkerella:
Golda Poretsky, H.H.C. Body Love Coach:
I’ve been fielding lots of comments of the “how can you be promoting fat?!” and “haven’t you heard of type II diabetes?!” variety. So I’ve decided to write this post. I’ve outlined 9 typical statements by commenters, together with an explanation of why each statement is...
“There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know,...”
– Glenn Beck, nailing down what’s disturbing about 70 kids being shot (via blogonthe)
Yeah, what kind of political group would have a political summer camp for kids? It’d be totally abhorrent if fringe groups pushed their agenda via young people.
(via stfuconservatives)
Black Student Prevented From Being Valedictorian,... →
weexist-weresist:
stfuconservatives:
fsufeminist:
dionthesocialist:
jonathan-cunningham:
hipstervader:
jonathan-cunningham:
Wimberly’s mother is the school’s “certified media specialist.” She says in the federal discrimination complaint that after her daughter had been told she would be valedictorian, the mother heard “in the copy room that same day, other school personnel expressed...
Ignoring and Effort
Or maybe not even ignoring, really. More like, the expectation of hoping that friends will put for the effort to value any friendship I put my own effort into. That whole “meeting halfway” or whatever.
There have been an awful lot of people who I believed would put forth some effort in being a friend. Not even anything super AMAZING or like OMG WE’RE GONNA HANG OUT EVERY DAY...
STFU, Conservatives: Abortion versus Adoption →
stfuconservatives:
I wanted to touch briefly on this post, which Joe had an excellent response to. I just want to expand a little bit on the Abortion v. Adoption mentality that a lot of people have.
Adoption is not a direct alternative to abortion. It’s an alternative to parenthood. Abortion, at the most simple…
A visualization of US Debt in 100 dollar bills →
world-shaker:
Exactly what it sounds like. Worth the click-through.
“Nothing ruins a good LAN party like uncomfortable guests or lots of tension,...”
– Well, That’s One Way to Combat Misogyny in Gaming
HEY LETS RESOLVE OUR SEXISM/MISOGYNY ISSUE BY PUNISHING WOMEN AND ABSOLVING MEN!
holy shittttthhggg
(via vvarinn)
wat
(via esmeweatherwax)
One of the top World of Warcraft guilds simply does not allow women in their raids, period. It’s amazing...
CEO's Who Became Job Killers →
“The Great Recession underscored the reality that few companies, even the big and powerful, are immune to deep layoffs. On a single day — Jan. 26, 2009 — more than 60,000 workers lost their jobs, at such iconic companies as General Motors (GM), Home Depot (HD) and Sprint-Nextel (S). That day, even Microsoft(MSFT) pared its payroll — the first time in the company’s...
Straight Man Who ‘Appeared Gay’ Not Allowed To... →
stfuconservatives:
totheexperts:
bubbybobble:
andythenerd:
I don’t get this. How does someone “appear gay” short of actually walking into the Red Cross while in the very act of gay sex?
Maybe he was like nyan cat, and was shitting rainbows everywhere he went? </Sarcasm>
Oh fuck this.
Correction: Made a crack about the Red Cross but this was a pay-for-plasma independent blood...
weexist-weresist:
atomicsocialist:
THESE ARE ACTUALLY GOOD QUESTIONS
proper-dave:
shitidfuckme:
the person i like and why i like them.
a famous person i’ve been compared to.
5 things that irritate me about the same sex/opposite sex.
the best thing that has happened to me this week.
weird things i do when i’m alone.
how i’d spend ten thousand bucks.
things i like and things i don’t...
“Could you imagine what the Tea Party would be saying right now if there was a...”
– Matt Taibbi, “Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where’s the Uproar?”
Yeah, I just can’t anymore…
(via cognitivedissonance)
Rick Perry Asked Why More Kids Are Getting... →
paxamericana:
Texas Governor Rick Perry is toying with a run for president. Perry is a skilled politician and has never lost an election, but he has taken an increasingly antiscience turn in his approach to governing. On global warming he now says that the leading source of “supposedly deadly carbon dioxide” is the mouth of Al Gore. On education he has appointed creationists to lead the Texas...
I wish I hadn't taken quite so many political...
hidingincanada:
invertebrateparty:
Here’s the upshot of having “learned” to write academic philosophy/theory— if you can learn that style of writing, which in its high academic form is perhaps the most unnatural and difficult ways of putting thoughts to paper, you can learn any style of writing.
I have some (unsolicited) advice from experience in finding again a voice outside of my...
11 States Trying Really Hard to Keep Poor, Black,... →
“Notice how “organized terrorist attack” becomes “lone crazy individual” and...”
– Eric Ward (via queerdesi)
Every single time. (And that “crazy” isn’t just an offhand word, it’s always crucial to the rhetoric to make sure the violent white person(s) can be at least vaguely described as such, to establish mental instability as the source of their actions.)
...
child runs onto road, BLACK mother convicted of... →
weexist-weresist:
fuckyeahfeminists:
The story of Raquel Nelson, an Atlanta woman who witnessed her four year old son killed by a drunk driver and was subsequently convicted of vehicular manslaughter is the ‘Outrage of the week’ over at Lenore Skenazy’s blog Free Range Kids. And, frankly, what I feel about it is a shit-ton of outrage.
…What isn’t mentioned in Skenazy’s account (although a...
“It is true that for some immigrants, marriage can be a path to obtaining legal...”
– Priya Kandaswamy, from “Is Gay Marriage Racist? A Conversation With Marlon M. Bailey, Priya Kandaswamy, and Mattie Udora Richardson” in That’s Revolting: Resisting Queer Assimilation, 2004 (via agradschoolbreakup)
An often overlooked aspect of a broken system.
(via kemee)
Anonymous asked: I think you've always wanted to see me without clothes on... I posted photos WITH MY FACE COVERED at AllSinglesLinkUp ] dot [ com just go there create a profile and find ''summatime140310'' then guess who the fuck I am and message me on AIM or something
"(In Texas,) people have to provide a picture ID... →
weexist-weresist:
mohandasgandhi:
WI is trying to pass a voter ID bill similar to the standards set in Texas thanks to Walker and his lap dogs. I honestly don’t know how this is even allowed.
ugh this bill was so difficult to fight against. its going to reduce the number of poor/young/otherwise disenfranchised people that can vote but its done because they think ~illegals are voting~. i know...
Why did I divide sin by tan?
alls2ice:
kimmmjaneex:
barbedwire-necklace:
votesmack:
Just cos
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA. thats funny.
Oh math jokes. LOL
I had a dream.
And I remember this one because unlike the majority of them, it doesn’t involve monsters. It involved a very real thing.
There were two parts of it. The first part was your standard wacky stuff; something about a detective and finding something or whatever.
The other part though that it transitioned into gave me the creeps. I was in school all over again.
It was senior year and I was...
“The First Amendment was written neither to guarantee freedom of religion to...”
– American Family Association spokesman and demagogue royale Bryan Fischer, trying to see how many feet he can get into his mouth.
Our only question: If this is how he mangles the meaning of a single 45-word sentence, what’s that say about his interpretation of the Scriptures?
(h/t Joe.My.God.)
For... 