February 2011
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Synecdoche, New York
I don't know how to feel about Twitter campaigns.
I don’t think any amount of victim advocacy will have an effect on a person determined to ruin women’s lives. It will be easy for Boner to ignore the tweets directed at him, thinking, “Who cares? They’re probably not from my district anyway.” I think it is probably more important to inundate Boner’s (and the co-sponsors’) offices with protests or pledges...
January 2011
bluebears replied to your post: While taking classes with undergrads might make me feel old, nothing will make you feel younger than the death of a friend’s parent.
sad. That actually makes me feel old. Like oh god I’m at the age when my contemporary’s parents are dying.
I do feel that way, too, but it makes me feel young like—too young to be losing a parent. It scares the hell...
While taking classes with undergrads might make me...
My childhood bff lost her father this morning. At least he was able to walk her down the aisle last year.
:Sigh:
If you need a distraction during class you should...
When I was your age we didn’t have laptops or smart phones!
Someone in the notes mentioned The Sighing.
That’s another thing. These undergrads are like, exasperated if they are not being sufficiently entertained or stimulated at all times. That’s why they have to turn to the Internet in the first place, I suppose. But when they are not gchatting or reading Cracked.com or shopping, they are loudly sighing.
Then I feel like I have to overcompensate by maintaining eye contact with this...
jgh-2 replied to your post: Class with undergrads.
I used my laptop to write notes in class because it is very painful for me to hold a pencil and write for extended periods of time.
I’m not talking about typing notes, though.
Class with undergrads.
I’m sorry, undergrads, but you are The Worst.
Put your damn smart phones away. Close your damn laptops.
It is so disrespectful and rude. Perhaps I would feel differently if I did not suffer from class envy, and I had a smart phone and/or laptop of my own to fuck around on when I should be following the professor? But I doubt it. These kids seriously cannot tear themselves away from...
]]>thehighshelf replied to your post: My exposure to the Internet and my happiness are absolutely inversely proportional.
I’m not ashamed to be American, that isn’t my fault, but I’m ashamed to be human, also not my fault. So much that I find it’s something I say daily & that I think constantly. I hope humans die quickly so the rest of the planet can get on with living.
I’m...
My exposure to the Internet and my happiness are...
This country, man. I am ashamed to be an American. I am full of disgust and hatred for most people. Sometimes I think the best thing that could ever happen to this planet would be a giant asteroid that destroys the whole thing.
Just read through a bunch of anti-choice Twitters...
Scary womesogynists.
I am on the verge of using the dogs' ear infection...
My q-tip addiction has finally caught up with me, I think.
The Democrats Who Support HR3
sadydoyle:
So, yeah: That “let’s redefine rape, and pass the Hyde Amendment into law, and also your insurance won’t cover abortion any more, and also, REDEFINE RAPE” act? The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Even Though There Basically Wasn’t Any Already, But At Least We Can Save $50K on Rape Survivors Act?”
Some Democrats sponsored it. THIS IS A VERY PRECISE SORT OF BUMMER, OF WHICH I BUT...
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“The main US cable news networks had given Egypt minimal coverage so far this...”
– Richard Adams, The Guardian
Is Facebook unavailable for anyone else?
The situation in Egypt is making me hate Americans...
Americans think paying taxes that might benefit someone else constitutes oppression. They do not empathize with people “over there” and if they do take notice, it will be to appropriate the Egyptians’ suffering and bravery by pretending they know what it’s like (because they have to pay taxes, because they held an anti-affirmative-action bake sale once, because Obama is a...
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This week
For those of you in the U.S. Who want to do...
afghanipoppy:
squashed:
Call your Congress people and urge them to publicly support the Egyptians’ right to self-determination and free expression.
Egypt is an important U.S. ally—and we do a lot to help Mubarak stay in power. Making it costly for the U.S. to back up the Egyptian regime’s crack down could do something to unsettle Mubarak’s grip on power—or at least increase the cost of...
Drugged, raped, and pregnant? Too bad. Republicans... →
Under their plan, only abortions from “forcible rape” would be eligible for government funding.
ICE CREAM DOOD!
heymrdonutman:
-rosasparks-:
He has a name.
Zach Burroughs and he lives in Arlington, VA.
You guys. I’m thinking a pilgrimage to Arlington is in order.
I will get down on bended knee and sing,
‘HOW MANY LICKS’
Who wants to be Cisqo to my L’il Kim?
I will host a potluck dinner at my house. I know that TheCranium lives somewhere nearby, along with DonnaPirana. There will be plenty of ice...
If a guy really loves a girl, the one and only...
insouciantlover:
BLEGHHHHHHH
also: I have an AWESOME last name. If I do get married, which I really don’t want to do until gay marriage is rightfully legalized, then I will keep my own fucking last name.
You know what else? I really don’t like that children automatically get their father’s last name. I have told my wonderful boyfriend that should we do any procreatin’, any girl children will...
M is home!
5.5 hours to drive 50 miles. He said there are just cars and buses facing every which way sitting all over the streets.
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It's times like this I wish I'd replaced my broken...
donnapirana replied to your post: M gets out of work at 5. He is still not home. He…
My dad just got home after leaving work at 3:30 :( He was taking the bus from NW to Arlington and it took 4 hours.
Oh my good god. My office closed early so I met up with one of my classmates at the library. AU to my home also in NW: one hour. M works in Catonsville (I KNOW), so… poor guy.
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M gets out of work at 5. He is still not home.
He is going to be in a baaaaaaaaaad mood.
oopsixxx asked: Nice blog here. I just read your post from Anna Quidlem, don't know where else to throw my comment/inquiry but can we agree that she puts her daughter at a disadvantage by maintaining this type of thought process? I'm born in 1985 and I have never and WILL never think a man can do something better than me. In fact quite the opposite. Examples from day one may have given me a bias, but as...
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Want to help Kelley Williams-Bolar?
She is the black mother who was convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time and probation for sending her two daughters to a school in a different district. As you have probably guessed, the school they attended is safer and whiter than the one in the girls’ neighborhood. The school hired a private detective to catch this woman.
She’s in need of donations to appeal the sentence....
My co-worker's son is going to be one of those...
This coworker.
L’s nanny is a white woman but she has been ill so L had to hire a temp nanny for a couple weeks. Her children think their permanent nanny is their grandmother because she has been with them their whole lives. L said when she told the oldest (3ish) they would have a new nanny for a little while, he told her “She’s going to be a different color.” (And in...
The Glass Half Empty
By Anna Quindlen Published: November 22, 1990
My daughter is 2 years old today. She is something like me, only better. Or at least that is what I like to think. If personalities had colors, hers would be red.
Little by little, in the 20 years between my eighteenth birthday and her second one, I had learned how to live in the world. The fact that women were now making 67 cents for every...
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Working class kid from Scranton, what what!
When a white person asks "Why should I be punished...
zuky:
I can only say with sympathy, you’re already being punished: Listen to yourself. You have inherited a racial anxiety and apparent cognitive dysfunction which distorts your perception of the world and experience of humanity, and which dehumanizes your own heart more than it can ever do to we who form the great majority.
Dear baby Jesus, I am only 28 years old.
I am completely and utterly OVER the abortion issue. I can’t take it anymore. Do I have to listen to/read this shit for decades and decades in the future?
I am left with exactly ZERO patience or understanding for anti-choicers. Or wishy-washy pro-choicers who don’t know how to feel about “partial birth abortion” and why can’t feminists just admit abortion kills a...
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People who argue against "third trimester...
Do you reside in Virginia's 43rd District?
If so, please contact Delegate Mark Sickles to ask that he vigorously oppose VA House Bill 2482 which seeks to reduce hard fought and greatly needed protections for animals. The bill eliminates a number of cruelty laws and weakens a number of other provisions.
Please get the word out so that this bill does not get passed under the radar.
This is the bill.
“Men are traditionally given pretty much all the credit for making babies. We...”
– Amanda Marcotte
I've been attracted to bald men.
But if M ever loses his luxurious Jesus hair I will be very, very sad.
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Puppy Parvo Emergency! Please help.
Homeward Trails recently partnered with two other rescues to take in 34 puppies, 6 dogs and 6 cats who were on death row at a West Virginia shelter.
Sadly, just two weeks later, the shelter was full again with puppies and they faced euthanizing 40 puppies to make space. HT took in 18 puppies. However, an unprecedented number of these rescued puppies have been stricken by Parvo, a deadly...
Glenn Beck targets a female college professor as... →
Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
At 78, she has taught several generations of students about how and why poor people don’t get a fair shake in the United States and how to increase their organizational power and encourage voter registration.
…
[Beck] accused her of being “an...
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS WEBSITE???
My stats professor claims to have conducted a small survey of a previous class, regarding “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” He probably did; I am only aware of this because he used it to demonstrate something in our class.
43% of the men in the class answered mirror (and about 28% painter, 28% photographer), while only 8% of the women said mirror...
thetart asked: "To me privilege is an equality issue-"
PLONK.
PLONK.
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Which are worse?
YouTube comments
Twitter trending topics
drinkthe-koolaid asked: It makes sense to me. He's saying we all have our own problems, and to attempt to diminish someone else's problems doesn't do anyone any good.