freckles make me strong.
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robot-heart:
lookuplookup:
I cannot even begin to imagine a more misguided and offensive notion than Kevin Burke’s assertion that women who do not identify with/politically support Sarah Palin are suffuering from “post-abortion shame.”
Some of the very personal and often uncharitable criticism of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her family may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child.
You’ve got to be kidding me. I think Feministing does a nice, succint job of responding:
Wow, given that one in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime - there must be millions of tired, addicted, slutty, depressed, single women running around voting Democrat!
…or we could say that all women who adore Palin are suffering from post-Jesus stupidity.
This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.
David Sedaris on undecided voters (via redorangeorangeonred) (via britticisms) (via karion)
Although as a former flight attendant, I can honestly say there’s little difference between the chicken and the shit with broken glass in it.
(via robot-heart)
“I don’t see the point in punishing her. If I ground her, I’m just punishing myself because I have to put up with her in the house,” she said.
“Instead, I reward her good behaviour by giving her cigarettes. If she’s bad, she goes without.
“She’s a little comedian. I let her get away with a lot of cheek. It’s sweet.”
Mrs Holt, a jobless single mother with two other grown-up children who smokes 20 cigarettes a day herself, said giving them out as a reward “works”.
She said: “There are a lot worse things she could be doing. We’ve all got to die sometime. I haven’t got cancer from smoking so she’ll probably be all right anyway.”
”—Girl, 13, who smokes drinks and has sex ‘rewarded’ by mother with cigarettes - Telegraph
And the Mother of the Year award goes to…
(via sarahchristine)
(via robot-heart)
The New Yorker endorses Obama. Unsurprising, but beautifully written. (via leilacohan)
This sounds like it was written by Toby Zielger and Sam Seaborn. My fingers are crossed for a happy ending.
thisiswhy:
My hometown of Seattle breeds some pretty clever people. In this case, a creative robber:
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_100108WAB_monroe_robber_floating_escape_TP.ce3930c1.html
“In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.”
Yesssss.
Super clever indeed.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
This site is terrific!
In honor of the Couric-Palin interviews here are some specific examples of white privildge:
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.
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White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was “Alaska first,” and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you’re black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.
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White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do–like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor–and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college–you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.
Read the full article by Tim Wise
[shout out to my roommate who sent me the article]
heyitseva:
thisiswhy:
Just in time for the debate!
Moe Bar @ 6:30, loser picks up the tab.