Februar 2012
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If Common Sense Was Used in Government and the...
Citizen: I don't believe in abortion.
Government: Then don't get one.
Citizen: I don't believe in birth control.
Government: You don't have to use it.
Citizen: I think gay marriage is a sin.
Government: Don't marry the same sex then.
Citizen: I want my kids to learn about creationism.
Government: Take them to church.
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“I was obviously born to draw better than most people, just as the widow Berman...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
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ugh love wearing new socks for the first time
Shout out to DG Jamaican Pineapple.
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BREAKING NEWS: Texas lets 130,000 people (most of... →
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Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination of legislation.
Click through to see what this means for reproductive rights in...
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Georgia Immigration Law: Senate Bill 458 Would Ban... →
In the wake of Georgia’s harsh immigration law, HB 87, which requires employers to check the immigration status of potential workers and encourages law enforcement to ask for immigration verification during routine stops, a Georgia Senate committee has now passed a new measure targeting undocumented residents.
The bill, SB 458, would ban non-citizens from attending public colleges in...
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of...”
– Stephen Hawking (via starrchild)
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Gainesville High School Students' Racist YouTube... →
After two minors from Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Fla., posted a nearly 14-minute-long racist rant on YouTube, the girls are “no longer students at the school,” WCJB-TV reports.
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Last week, eight police officers were brought to the campus in light of death threats the girls were receiving in response to their videos. The videos included comments...
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Santaluces High School In Florida On Alert After 2... →
On the heels of a shocking and racist YouTube post by two teens in Gainesville, Fla., an uncannily similar video has surfaced in the state that purports the same disparaging sentiments against black students.
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School officials at Santaluces High School in Lantana, Fla., are on alert, WPEC-TV reports, after two white female students posted the racist video about black...
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Past One O'Clock
Vladimir Mayakovsky
This poem was found among Mayakovsky’s papers after his suicide on April 14, 1930. He had used the middle section, with slight changes, as an epilogue to his suicide note.
Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the...
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To His Own Beloved Self
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Six. Ponderous. The chimes of a clock. “Render unto Caesar … render unto God…” But where’s someone like me to dock? Where’ll I find a lair?
Were I like the ocean of oceans little, on the tiptoes of waves I’d rise, I’d strain, a tide, to caress the moon. Where to find someone to love of my size, the sky too small for her to fit in?
Were I poor as a...
for lent
kareemabdulabbar:
im giving up :(
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“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Privilege: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
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