February 2011
Illinois Signs Civil-Unions Law - The Daily Beast
Get ready for an influx of save-the-dates from Illinois. The state’s governor, Pat Quinn, signed “historic” legislation Wednesday allowing civil unions for both gay and straight couples. The bill is considered a hard-won victory for gay and lesbian couples, since it will give gay couples many of the same rights as married couples—although it does not establish same-sex marriage. via...
January 2011
if you know anyone in egypt.
dumbconservativebitches:
stfucapitalists:
carpe-cerevisi:
If you know anyone in Egypt, please pass this on to them. To bypass government blocking of websites, use numerical IP addresses: Twitter ”128.242.240.52” Fb ”69.63.189.34” Google ”172.14.204.99”. A French ISP offers free dial up internet access ~ +33 1 72 89 01 50 Login password: toto. Please pass this on and share.
IMPORTANT!...
Sapiosexual (n.) — a person who is sexually...
thatchman1:
Holy hell I didn’t know a term for this existed. Floored.
MAKE IT REAL 2.0 真: I want to know Egypt →
thatchman1:
I want to know someone from Egypt. I want an Egyptian pen pal, my age or around it. I want to know their lives. I want to understand.
It’s a sad thing that the best political thing for our politicians or security is to support a regime that is not kind to its people. It’s sad that supporting…
STFU, Conservatives: The Democrats Who Support HR3 →
sadydoyle:
So, yeah: That “let’s redefine rape, and pass the Hyde Amendment into law, and also your insurance won’t cover abortion any more, and also, REDEFINE RAPE” act? The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Even Though There Basically Wasn’t Any Already, But At Least We Can Save $50K on…
When people tell me "you're looking cute today" at...
respond like
Then i walk off like
but in my head I’m like
Was I ugly yesterday?
REMINDER: one of the most important things you can...
STFU, Conservatives: blackenedbutterfly: 13% of... →
blackenedbutterfly:
13% of H.S. Biology Teachers Advocate Creationism in Class
cassket:
The majority of high-school biology teachers don’t take a solid stance on evolution with their students, mostly to avoid conflicts, and fewer than 30 percent of teachers take an adamant…
“To make sure you’re removing a weed & not a valuable plant - pull on it. If...”
– Unknown (via leftish)
Sadly this is so very true…
(via jkirchartz)
Yes. Plants come out super easy and weeds need to be dug out most of the time. Gosh, I miss gardening. (via ruthannsrandomness)
“[The] major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the...”
– Zbigniew Brzezinski (via sadomars)
The Green State: Top 10 Myths About Evolution →
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ageofreason:
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…
“It’s just a theory” will be the death of me.
Believe in yourself, not religion.
*** Trigger Warning *** SNL's Transphobic skit... →
ruthannsrandomness:
taniada:
spectrumnaut:
(via Ms. Magazine)
Posting because some people wanted to see what happened.
SNL, what is this fuckery? Get your shit together. This isn’t funny.
I may offend a few people by saying this but SNL hasn’t been remotely funny since Jimmy Fallon left. Hell, even before that.
This video just proved that I’m still not missing anything by not watching...
AZ GOP Proposes New ‘Birthright’ Law - The Daily...
From a border fence to a legal one: On Thursday, Arizona Republicans introduced new “birthright” legislation, challenging the right to citizenship for kids of immigrants born in the U.S. via thedailybeast.com Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
Victory! Hospira Stops Supplying Lethal Injections...
Victory! Hospira Stops Supplying Lethal Injections via criminaljustice.change.org Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
Norquist And The War - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
If you’ve got a fist in the tar baby Iraq and you’ve got a fist in the tar baby Afghanistan, then who’s afraid of you?Grover norquist via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
Deals and Offers at The Book Depository
via bookdepository.com Very cool. I’m already looking for good picks for my Nook. Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
Palin's Timing - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
Amy Sullivan also wonders why Palin didn’t “hold off on the lashing out at her critics and casting herself as a victim for just a few more days”: Palin simply can’t help it. You know that friend of yours for whom everything is always about them? Your dad is in the hospital and your cat just died and you lost your job, and yet she blows up at you because you forgot her...
Quote For The Day
« Yglesias Award Nominee, Ctd | Main | The Palin Model, Ctd » Quote For The Day 12 Jan 2011 12:40 pm “Today has been set aside to honor the victims of the Tucson massacre. And Sarah Palin has apparently decided she’s one of them,” - Josh Marshall. Permalink :: Sphere It! :: Share This via feedproxy.google.com ...
Things that are clearly condoned in the Bible are...
“Things that are clearly condoned in the Bible are now mysteriously prohibited, such as polygamy, concubines (well, fundamentalists seem to call their concubines mistresses these days), slaves, and incest. Things that are celebrated, indeed the raison d’être of the New Testament, are totally ignored or even ridiculed, such as foregoing wealth, distributing wealth...
Daring Fireball Linked List: Not Helping
Joe Stump: Right can point the finger back all they want, but we’re not the ones putting crosshairs on peoples’ backs and telling people to reload. via daringfireball.net Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
Giffords, Jewish - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
Loughner was probably too insane to have really participated in anti-Semitic politics, or, for that matter, in the Tea Party. But it is important to note that Giffords has been relentlessly demonized by the right, the rhetoric around her charged with violence. And such rhetoric is dangerous precisely because of the effect it can have on the unhinged. Loughner was crazy, but he was also...
Quote For The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
There is a distinction between guilt and regret. Sarah Palin is not responsible for this latest excrescence of violence. But if Sarah Palin does not regret the fact that she put a gun-sight cross-hair on a public figure who was subsequently shot in the head, then she is telling us something important about her moral character. via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted via email from...
Quote For The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
There is a distinction between guilt and regret. Sarah Palin is not responsible for this latest excrescence of violence. But if Sarah Palin does not regret the fact that she put a gun-sight cross-hair on a public figure who was subsequently shot in the head, then she is telling us something important about her moral character. via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted via email from...
Riding That Tiger - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
This is not the same as guilt. It’s called responsibility. So far, not a single leading Republican has offered even the slightest remorse for the atmosphere they stoked to win back power. If they do not, they will make the fire next time even more destructive, by emboldening the very forces they claim to have nothing to do with. via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted via email...
Tombstone Politics - NYTimes.com
The good news is that already, in just a few days time, this kind of talk from Beck, Palin and Angle is now being seen for what it really is — something not to be touched by fair citizens or ambitious politicians. And the long-overdue revulsion is because such poisons — death threats in place of reasoned argument, fetishizing of guns, glib talk of “taking someone out” — were used so...
Comment Of The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew...
20 people are mowed down in a grocery store and Palin thinks she’s the victim? Typical. You don’t get to spend 3 years blowing a dog whistle and yelling fire in a theater then get to wash your hands of it when it goes bad,” - from a commenter on Politico. via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
"On Extreme Right And Left" - The Daily Dish | By...
But the level of animus toward the new president and anyone supporting him reached preposterous proportions at the beginning of this presidency; the gracelessness from the Congressional leadership on down, from “You lie!” to “death panels” and “palling around with terrorists” … this is a real problem in a country with its fair share of disturbed...
Reading Loughner's Mind - The Daily Dish | By...
The entire psychological structure of the “Tea Party” is rooted in the theme of patriotic armed revolt against an illegitimate tyrant. Violence and the rhetoric of violence is embedded within it. When you do that, someone somewhere will take you seriously. via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted via email from Firesaw | Comment »
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