December 2010
“Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free. Be...”
– Mumford & Sons (via overboredandoverboard)
15 Lies Glenn Beck Didn't Get Fired For →
jonathan-cunningham:
In 2010, Glenn Beck repeatedly made up facts on Fox News show — a barrage of lies that would force any credible news outlet to fire him. Media Matters counts down 15 of the most notable fibs that Beck told this year on Fox News, culminating with the biggest lie of all:
No. 15 The Fed Hoards Its Profits
No. 14 Tax Dollars Funded An Art Exhibit Actually Paid For By Private...
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ofanotherkind:
This place about to…
I knew...
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
WHY WASN'T I FOLLOWING THEANIMALBLOG BEFORE...
That awkward moment when you tell your parents...
drapetomania:
reblog for the .gif
crunch-:
Edward Cullen: I want to kill you.
Bella: I trust you.
Edward Cullen: I want to kill you.
Normal Person:
“We now live in a country in which the bottom 40 percent (120 million people)...”
– Sam Harris from A New Year’s Resolution For The Rich (via therecipe)
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
– Joseph Brodsky (via Wisdom, Received)
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Today in Rape Culture
sisterhoodispowerful:
[Trigger warning for sexual assault.] $50,000: The going rate for Very Important Men to sexually harass women without further consequences. Luckily, when you make like eighty zillion biebers a year, that’s only like five bucks to your average dude. (via Shakesville)
Good things that are happening in the next 3 days:
[in order of occurrence]
Hang out with a friend I haven’t seen in like four years
Hang out with my ex-boyfriend/best friend who I haven’t spoken to in 2.5 months
See my best friend from my old college
New Years! Party! Dranks!
Get laid.
See my roommate from my old college
Life is awesome.
Doctors Without Borders: Ten Stories That Mattered... →
doctorswithoutborders:
Through its Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been closely following the developments in the world of access to medicines, vaccines and diagnostics.
Among the positive stories of the past year: new tools were developed for
“Who has the right words at the right moment?”
– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (via vintage23elfride)
Tumble DC 25: If you want a world without... →
cognitivedissonance:
If you think the income tax is illegal, that we’re sliding towards socialism, and that the 10th Amendment is the solution to all life’s problems…here’s an examination of what your tax dollars pay for at the municipal, county, state, and federal levels. - Don’t drive on…
