October 2011
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10 Things Not To Say to Your Childfree Friends -... →
1. “When will you finally have kids?” Once you have offspring, you want your friends to share the experience. But please don’t loudly ask this question across the table at Thanksgiving dinner or at a baby shower. Although many people are happy to be childfree or waiting, the situation may be more complicated. A friend could be facing infertility, in the agonizing position of having a spouse who...
My wants are simple.
All I want at the moment is a birthday dinner of turducken followed by cherpumple and to make cinnamon buttercream frosting and put it on everything.
“….One of the most fatuous themes of mainstream OWS coverage is the endless loop...”
– Dahlia Lithwick How OWS confuses and ignores Fox News and the pundit class. - Slate Magazine
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I have to keep explaining this to people around me who say “Well they don’t have a clear message”
No, they have very clear messages but they don’t conveniently fit into a CNN newscrawl...
“A relationship is like a business run by two. If one makes a costly mistake,...”
– Gracie
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
– Maya Angelou
“The point being: if you miss a few home payments, you have a very high...”
– Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via robot-heart-politics)
“When somebody says, “I don’t think women should be raped for wearing short...”
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Woman Overjoyed By Giant Uterine Parasite →
Studies have shown that while the disorder strikes without prejudice across racial, ethnic, and class lines, it bears a very high correlation with the consumption of alcohol at the time of infection.
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“A hard truth is better than a soft lie.”
– Lie To Me
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“People are like stained-glass windows. They...
microaggressions:
You’ll change your mind. Once you get pregnant your whole viewpoint will change. You’ll come around when you have a kid. You’re young, you don’t know what you want.
…etc.
Things that people say to me when I mention that I don’t want to have children, ever. I am a nineteen-year-old woman. Made me feel frustrated, and powerless to control my future. Angry that no woman is “too...
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Alabama brings back slavery for Latinos →
darkjez:
zami:
amerikkkanstories:
So, here is how it goes. First, the state passes a harsh immigration law. Then, it detains large numbers of immigrants. Third, private prisons (LCS, CCA, GEO) receive fresh inmates. And finally, the artificially created labor shortage is supplied by the new inmates. Does this sound like modern-day slavery to anyone?
The rest of the country can only look in...
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