March 2010
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on obligations to parents
shiyiya:
mightymarce:
shiyiya:
“I disagree, actually. Children owe their parents nothing. At all. Ever. This probably seems extreme. We live in an environment where the idea that children are indebted to their parents for housing food clothing health care education toys etc. is taken in with every breath. Children are expected to be at the very least appropriately grateful for their parents’...
clingtomymouth:
Her first sentence is
Three hundred years ago, there was no United States of America.
Rockwell’s book was published in 2008. Three hundred years ago puts the story in the year 1708. Rockwell is correct. At that point in time, there was no United States of America. Her next sentence could be “Instead, there were hundreds of Native Nations.” But this is her next...
dorianisms:
abbyjean:
bonesarecoralmade:
The fact that most feminist sites reporting on the Iceland strip ban are not talking about the fact that most of the strippers are foreign workers (let’s step away from the vague and misleading ‘trafficked’ schtick kay? Not all illegal crossing of borders, even for sexual labour, are trafficking, to treat them as such is actually a good way to...
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More Healthcare Stuff! Part 1: Ammendment 3556... →
stfuconservatives:
rabbleprochoice:
If I may, a few thoughts in response to:
AMENDMENT 3556: NO ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION DRUGS TO SEX OFFENDERS
Which seems pretty straightforward and silly to argue against.
Oh wait.
“This amendment would enact recommendations from the Government Accountability Office to stop fraudulent payments for prescription drugs prescribed by dead providers or,...
“Here’s where the story gets ugly: Afterward Harajda was quoted in a New York...”
– Michelle Obama’s pizza preference: New York style over Chicago style? - chicagotribune.com
New York pizza is superior in every way to Chicago pizza. Chicago pizza is like a fucking tomato sauce casserole.
(via sexartandpolitics)
(via rosasparks)
Um…I like both? ::ducks::
Health-reform rally heckler says he's sorry and... →
katoleary:
So: I have a book called Ethics for the New World that advocates creating and committing to a personal ethical code to ensure that you behave in a manner consistent with your principles at all times. I understand how mob mentality can lead to a situation like this, where you find yourself participating in behavior of which you wouldn’t have thought yourself capable; the problem is...
Baaaaaaa
I put up an asky thingy on my page. I don’t expect it’ll be used often, but if you like you can.
“We’ve all seen the word “Caucasian,” usually when we’re filling out forms, but...”
– “The History of White People”: What it means to be white - Nonfiction - Salon.com (via guerrillamamamedicine)
fauxrealtho replied to your link:...
abbyjean:
ilykadamen:
THIS, ALSO.
Oh WOW you people are healing so much dead-white-dude literary trauma for me. HEARTS.
Classic Books I HATE:
every single thing by charles dickens. man could not use 1 word when he could use 100 instead. blah blah blah.
100 years of solitude, and really, magic realism as a whole. i get that it works for other people, but i say absolutely not.
ulysses....
Amanda Hess on the "choice" to vajazzle →
marnalicious:
(via bluebears)
This is where the “a woman’s choice!” defenders come in. How could we possibly deny women the choice to engage in these behaviors, if that’s what they love? Look: I don’t begrudge women who make the choice to perform the behaviors of femininity. I perform many of them myself, on a daily basis! Resisting engaging in these things is almost impossible. But I don’t kid...
“WHAT LOT’S WIFE WOULD HAVE SAID
(IF SHE WASN’T A PILLAR OF SALT)
Do you...”
– KAREN FINNEYFROCK via clingtomymouth (via bonesarecoralmade
)
oh, how extraordinary. i love this so much.
(via isabelthespy)
Oh man, me too.
(via shiyiya)
Excellent.
(via dorianisms)
O.O