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October 2011
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ishq insaf taqat: So on the front cover of my... →
teramerapyar:
So on the front cover of my town’s local paper, there are two stories about groups of students at the local high school. There’s a story about the National Honour Society inductees, almost all of whom are white or Palestinian. Then there’s a story about a forgery ring, and all of the students…
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via snapadoo)
Dug.
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Beatrix, age 2. Clearly my work is done here.
Beatrix singing around the house: There's money in the banana stand, there's money in the banana stand, there's money in the banana stand, there's money in the banana staaaaaand!
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Sal (age 10) Henry (age 7) and Me (age 33) Watch...
Henry: What the heck? They're kissing on the beach saying "don't go"? What is this? The end of the movie?
Henry: What the heck? Is that Elvis?
Henry: What the heck is with this cartoon? What are hooties? Is that another word for hooters?
Henry: Are those guys the jackasses in this movie? Yeah, I think these guys are the jackasses.
Henry: Elvis smokes?
Me: Isn't Elvis. It's John Travolta.
Sal: His eyes are too small for his nose. Who is THAT?
Me: Stockard Channing.
Sal: She does NOT look like she'd be in High School.
Henry: Please tell me no one dressed or walked like this in real life. I don't think the Elvis looking guy knows his blondie girl is at this school.
Henry: Did he just put a frog in her purse?
Me: You were right about those guys.
Henry: they are the jackass badasses, is Elvis one of those guys?
Sal: Yeah.
Henry: Do they just sit at the football practice and and make fun of everyone?
Me: Yeah.
Sal: I don't like these people. They're all rude.
Me: Sandy doesn't seem rude.
Sal: So?
Henry: I love this movie. Wait ARE THEY ALL JUST SINGING?!?! SUDDENLY!?
Me: Yeah. that's what happens in High School.
Henry: Seriously? Did this just suddenly happen?? He's singing about her and she's singing about him? Weird. They both don't know they're in the same school?? You can tell that crazy girl is lip syncing. You can tell they're all lip syncing.
Sal: The 50's look stupid. Elvis has a crazy chin dimple.
Henry: Anyone can have a dimple like that, if they take a knife and just carve one out.
Sal: Yeah, I'm sure the principal says "Quiet" and they're all quiet. That doesn't happen.
Henry: WHY IS HE ACTING LIKE THAT TO SANDY?!?!
Me: Why do you think?
Henry: 'Cause he's a jackass.
Me: Henry you can't say that word again, ok..... but yeah.
Henry: Rizzo and these girls Sandy is friends with are the bad girls. Alllright!!!
Sal: This is boring.
Henry: Are they kissing in the car? Oh my god they are licking each other!! CHINESE KISSING!!
Me: Chinese kissing?
Henry: Uh, what is it, Japanese kissing? French... oh yeah french kissing.
(Greased Lightning comes on)
Henry: Too much singing. Can I turn this off?
Beatrix walks in: Oh look at all the princesses dancing!
Sal: Those cars don't look fast, they look like hippos.
Henry: OH MY GOD LOOK AT SANDY SHE'S A BAD GIRL NOW!
Sal: Those pants.
Henry: Grandad and I went on the Gravitron 2 times last week.
Me: You did not!
Henry: Yeah, twice, I puked.
Me: YOU DID NOT TAKE MY DAD ON THE GRAVITRON TWICE!
Henry: I did. See that one ride in the movie? It looks so boring, it must be a 'kissing ride', the kind you go on just to kiss people?
Me: Chinese Kiss them?
Henry: Har-Har. Green screen car flying into the SKY!!!!!
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NewsWorks: Authors: A better definition of success... →
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“People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a...”
– George Carlin (via ninebluecats)
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Secret memo reveals which telecoms store your data... →
America’s biggest wireless providers are holding on to sensitive data about your call history and text messaging for years, according to a recently released memo.
September 2011
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““I want her to be a hero, fighting things and be strong and helping people.”
...”
– A 7-year-old girl responds to DC Comics’ sexed-up reboot of Starfire
Do you want to know what people are talking about in the comics world right now?
Then read this. Then read this.
(via atsween)
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What if black women were white women? →
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karnythia:
imanismith:
In “If Men Could Menstruate,” Gloria Steinem makes the persuasive argument that “Whatever a ‘superior’ group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an ‘inferior’ group has will be used to justify its plight.” For too long the definition of racism has been a fight between white and black manhood or “who’s the bigger man”, so to speak....
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Republican On Fox News Says Minimum Wage Should Be...
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karnythia:
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mswyrr:
PETER SCHIFF: — maybe $3 or $4 an hour, if that’s what they’re worth
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Welp, why am I not surprised that in the wake of inflation & cutting of social benefits the plan is to let the workers starve if they can’t produce. Didn’t we see this story already? We did. In Russia, France, & a dozen other revolutions.
Note the...
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“But it found something else: that whites and blacks also differ in their...”
– ISS - Why does the South execute more people?
Just so you understand.
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“It looks like we finally know the reason why Republicans are refusing to fund...”
– The REAL Reason Why Republicans Want To Abolish FEMA: So They Can Profit From Natural Disasters (via midwestmountainmama)
Compassionate conservatism.
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welcome to the apocalypse. srsly.
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August 2011
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“Many developing nations are in debt and poverty partly due to the policies of...”
– Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty
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In my opinion this description of “structural adjustment programs” is far too benign. In fact, they are explicitly used as tools of neocolonialism. The “debts” which are incurred by Third World countries are largely the result of...
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“Since I’m a single officer in the Marine barracks and I’ve got the highest...”
– Marine Corps Officer | Don’t Ask, Don’t TELL (via fujiidom)
This article is really worth reading
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Esoterica: cohort →
tressiemcphd:
This right here? THIS IS EVERY DAY OF PHDing WHILE BLACK!!! Every day of your life becomes about anticipating, preparing for, and responding to the racial umbrage of white people who are, ostensibly, the most progressive and critical thinkers in the nation. And every day you realize that if the best and brightest of these the mightiest whitiest is this uncritical of their own...
“In defiance of all reason and compassion, the criminalization of poverty has...”
– How America turned poverty into a crime - War Room - Salon.com (via tressiemcphd)
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“First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via david)
This is brilliant and sad. It’s the end of dreams time.
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Sal (age 10) and I (age 33) watch Dirty Dancing...
Me: That would be a nice place to go on vacation.
Sal: Seems boring.
Me: It's nice there, it's a quaint mountain resort. I really like that her name is Baby.
Sal: Why do the watermelons look like that, all long?
Me: Oh God, you're right. Watermelons always used to look like that.
Sal: They're all round now. Did they really used to be long?
Me: Yeah, that's freaking me out. Science changed them, genetically modified.
Sal: She's just going right into the staff area? BOLD!
Me: WAIT. A. MINUTE. Look at them dancing. They're just rubbing their penises and vaginas on each other. No wonder all of my friends in Jr.High School loved this.
Sal: Why is that girl crying.
Me: They said she was 'knocked up', she's pregnant.
Sal: Why is she flipping out about it.
Me: It's a big deal, and it's 1963 so it's a bigger deal. Women could not have babies without husbands back then.
Sal: Oh my god, in the old days you couldn't have sex until you were married!?!
Me: We'll talk about this later.
Sal: Wait, so Baby's going to take her place dancing so she can have an abortion? This is weird.
Me: It's really funny.
Sal: Why can she only do it on Thursday?? Can't she get it another day?
Me: The guy said that was the only appointment that week.
Sal: They could have waited.
Me: I think he's going to kill Baby.
Sal: Why are they fighting?
Me: The botched abortion stressed them out. Oh, I have shorts like that. I'm going to call them my Baby shorts. I should totally buy all of these outfits from the movie and wear them all next summer.
Sal: (seriously) No. Don't.
Me: Why?
Sal: I don't like them.
Me: Baby touched his bum!
Sal: Ohhhhh.
Me: Baby's going to need to get an abortion.
Sal: She can just get her Dad to do it, but he'll yell at her.
Me: I think they might really be in love, Wow, so they are falling in love and having sex on the night their friend had a botched abortion?
Sal: It brought them together. Who is that guy?
Me: It's Johnny!
Sal: There are too many guys in this movie, there are like 4 guys that look the same.Wait. Wasn't he just mad at Baby, not they're in bed again.
Me: I wonder if Sarah Silverman has ever dressed up like Baby's sister Lisa when she sings "Hula Hana" for Halloween. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlT35Ote09c
Sal: Oh she does look like her.
Me: This is getting boring. But it's still a good summer movie.
Sal: Where do the parents think Baby is going every night?
Me: Her Dad is having a terrible vacation.
Sal: Why doesn't Johnny just tell her Dad he didn't get the blondie pregnant.
Me: Writers do that a lot, the accused doesn't defend himself because he is poor, or underprivileged or whatever, in comparison to the person accusing him. He'll figure it out later and feel bad.
Sal: What?
Me: Nevermind. The sister Lisa just said "You're pretty in your own way", that means "You're ugly"
Sal: 'Shhhhe's like the wind!"
Me: Weird, I like the "Nobody puts baby in the corner" part. I never thought that line would be good in any of the scenes I imagined it could be in.
JAMES WALKS IN: Oh god, this is so CHEESY. Even at the time it was cheesy, right? The Righteous Brothers? Super lame. I've had the time of my life. Totally embarrassing.
Sal: Oh my god, the Dad is mad again. At least he said he was wrong to Johnny.
Me: Patrick Swayze looks Native American.
Sal: I've never even heard this version of 'Time of my Life", I've only heard the Black Eyed Peas version.
Me: You're living a tough life kid.
Sal: Are there bloopers? I like it at the end when there are bloopers.
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“The issues that face African-American women were not kind of Real Housewives of...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry, talking about the messages in the new movie The Help on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night. Watch the full clip here. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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“If we—the audiences who want to see black actresses on screen but are troubled...”
– Andrea Hairston snarks all over ‘The Help’ (because I didn’t already love her, her work and her ginormous brain)…. (via theycallmezorawalker)
It’s a never-ending cycle of excuses: “We gave you crap. now…why won’t you eat it?”
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If someone says some assbackwards shit like this...
June 2011
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“I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United...”
– Meeting her last year was a highlight of my life. She is awesome. We tend to not think of the intersection of story and power. We think of the former as some fuzzy, warm, abstract thing when, in fact, story has always been the advance man of power. It reaches ahead through and over time and space to...
“The blatant disregard of history is getting pretty hilarious. Universities are...”
– I don’t know what this is in response to but, really, does it matter? Effing A.
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“Scholarly books shouldn’t have to be bestsellers, but they’d better damn well...”
– Ian Bogost -WRITING BOOKS PEOPLE WANT TO READ
Thoughts, Internet?
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The only way I could agree with this more?
Is if Sister and the Sisters popped out and starting crooning an original Curtis Mayfield tune.*
That is to say that I agree.
*Sparkle reference. Get some...
Today's job applicants really go above and... →
Apoplectic Skeptic: On the topic of wanting to... →
lady88:
Civil Unions are NOT marriages. Domestic Partnerships are NOT marriages. They’re NOT the same things, they don’t grant the same rights. Gay couples travel to states outside of where the live in order to be granted these Civil Unions on their wedding day, and for what? As soon as they…
The top 5 regrets people have on their deathbeds -... →
When Ms. Bronnie Ware, a woman who worked for years with the dying, wrote a list of the top 5 regrets people say aloud on their deathbed, we teared up a little bit here at TNW.
She posted the top 5 regrets along with her commentary on her website, and we’ve recopied them for you here below.
