May 2012
1 post
March 2012
10 posts
On why we're here
When you get to my age, if you get to my age, which is 81, and if you have reproduced, you will find yourself asking your own children, who are themselves middle-aged, what life is all about. I have seven kids, four of them adopted.
Many of you reading this are probably the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and...
Make no mistake about it: conservatives are NOT pro-life. They are merely...
– Nancy Meyer,
I Just Paid for Dick Cheney’s New Heart, Now Who Will Pay for My Daughter’s?
Because of this...
barackobama:
girlwiththeowltattoo:
February 2012
3 posts
The Wire is probably the greatest show ever made. Like, we almost re-named the...
– Margot
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...
– Fidel Castro in a long opinion piece carried by official media, February 2012
January 2012
11 posts
I met Ellen when I was 168 pounds and she loved me. She didn’t see that I...
– Portia de Rossi
Don't Dress Your Cat in an Apron - By Marlo Thomas
Don’t dress your cat in an apron
Just ‘cause he’s learning to bake.
Don’t put your horse in a nightgown
Just ‘cause he can’t stay awake.
Don’t dress your snake in a muu-muu
Just ‘cause he’s off on a cruise.
Don’t dress your whale in galoshes
If she really prefers overshoes.
A person should wear what he wants to.
And not just what...
The purity myth is the lie that women’s sexuality has some bearing on who we are...
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth
December 2011
32 posts
You’re very organized. I like that about you.
– Anonymous
RT @robdelaney: Just told my Secret Santa I murdered a plumber in Vermont in 1995 or is that not how it works?
Sweden, 1979
In 1979, a number of people called in sick with a case of “being homosexual,” in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness. This was followed by an activist occupation of the main office of the National Board of Health and Welfare. Within a few months, Sweden joined the few other countries in the world at the time to de-classify homosexuality as an illness.[6]
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Robyn - Indestructible (Acoustic Version)