September 2011
34 posts
Treadmill Desk Experiment @ W&L →
I love Cathy. I remember when she switched from a regular desk chair to an exercise ball.
August 2011
55 posts
So followers, what do you think about women dating...
nerdpoet:
I know there is definitely a double standard and some society squeamishness around this. I thinking especially about instances when both people are in the “young adult” range, say an 18 yr old and a 23 yr old.
I’d really like to have a discussion about this.
thoughts?
Regardless of gender, I think large age gaps have to be consciously addressed by the couple from the get-go.
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@barbra — Yeah, I’m fine; didn’t even know what was going on where I was nestled in the mountains.
@treyza — I love you.
feministslut:
Urban Outfitters can suck my clitoris
writeoutoflove:
stfuhypocrisy:
goforthandagitate:
link via @ autumn-and-gomorrah
Feminist activist Shelby Knox has launched a girlcott of Urban Outfitters, saying the company is producing sexist and degrading clothing. Knox cites two T-shirts in particular, one that reads “Eat Less” (a healthy slogan in a country in which 65% of...
Earthquake happens in Virginia near nuclear power...
Reaction of internet: OMFG, IS NYC OK?
My heart is telling me I need to create an Ode to...
My brain agrees, but reminds me that my Contracts homework isn’t going to read itself.
Contracts wins this time.
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We need not argue the distinction between a cannon...
— Justice Brand, Oregon Supreme Court, 1948 (Amphitheaters, Inc v. Portland Meadows)
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Anti-choice protester assaults clinic director... →
propaganda-for-life:
nothing-is-diminished:
While protestors were outside Volunteer Women’s Medical Clinic, 313 Concord Street, Rev. Fr. Richard G. Armstrong, 39, of Knoxville, placed a cross in a grassy area on what was allegedly believed to be public property. However, the property belongs to the facility.
A few minutes later, clinic owner and Director Deborah Walsh, 58, came...
“We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way...”
– Jimmy Carter, relevant now more than ever. (via gaywrites)
Jimmy Carter is so BAMFY, it hurts. There’s also this.
Former President Jimmy Carter issued a statement Sunday announcing he is severing all ties with the Southern Baptist Church due to their treatment of women. A devout Southern Baptist...
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10 Myths about Evolution →
thanatesque:
1 If Humans Came From Apes, Why Aren’t Apes Evolving Into Humans?
Humans, apes, and monkeys are only distant evolutionary “cousins.” We come not from apes but from a common ancestor that was neither ape nor human that lived millions of years in the past. In fact, during the last seven million years many human-like species have evolved; some examples include Homo habilis, Homo...
Congressional Republicans Want To Raise Taxes,...
liberalsarecool:
News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.
Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right?
Apparently not.
Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on...
“Many White reproductive activists cannot relate to the experiences of Black...”
– A Forced Eugenics Survivor Speaks Her Truth
This is why the pro-life movement’s sudden concern for Black fetuses and it’s recent focus on the Black community is laughable, insulting, hypocritical, and downright racist.
(via squeetothegee)
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"Pro-Life" Kansas Governor Cuts Funding for Dying... →
stfuconservatives:
tellwiddit:
Save the fetus, but let the babies die. The “Culture of Life” in Kansas.
Just another day in the pro-life agenda!
So there's this dude in my 1L class...
He has a big-ass truck.
It has on the front bumper one of those metal bar and grate contraptions that apparently has some legitimate purpose on a farm/ranch, but I’ve only ever heard of them being used to pound into wildlife (deer) that are crossing the road in order to make a technically non-poaching, off-season kill without damaging your vehicle.
On the rear bumper, he has two bumper...
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“Let me tell you some things.
I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I...”
– STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life…
This is perfect.
(via mis-anthrop-ologie)
And I mean, I believe in stuff like this.
(via freudianflips)
Well, this made me tear up this morning.
(via tastiejam)
““Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one...
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“As Mr. Perry, wearing a white shirt and no jacket, shook hands with a mix of...”
– The New York Times, “Perry Parries Hecklers in Portsmouth.”
Of course a nine-year-old is smarter than the Republican presidential frontrunner.
(via inothernews)
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What's Up With "Will" and "Would"? (And "Shall"...
theyuniversity:
I was taught that you use “shall” in the first person, and “will” in second & third.
We shall go home soon.
He will go home soon.
NY DAILY NEWS: New survey shows majority of... →
So one of my soon-to-be Law School classmates has...
There’s nothing about that that says “I’m interested in joining the adult world.”
