February 2012
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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Republicans: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Republicans: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Republicans: No.
On taking chances.
wanderlusts:
After the various conversations I had last night, I just feel like people need to stop giving themselves reasons not to do things. There will always be a reason not to date someone or try for a new job or move somewhere or well, the list is endless. You’ll always be able to talk yourself out of something. And that’s fine, I guess, if all you’re looking for is a life full of...
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Anniversary.
The boy: So when is our year anniversary?
Me: I don't know actually. I guess soon. Let me check my google calendar.
The boy: We are terrible at this.
Me: I know.
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The culture of the United States is in a gross...
silentlydrawn:
We are NOT the BEST.
We are NOT number ONE.
We are NOT the land of the FREE.
We are NOT TOLERANT.
We do NOT have FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
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“Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the...”
– David Foster Wallace
Happy Birthday, DFW. You are missed.
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Oh hey, what's up TWO WEEKS NOTICE!
I’ve completed my only new year’s resolution: get a new “near my house, more money, more challenging, closer to what I want to do” job. SO EXCITED.
Life is good.
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Yesterday.
I spent Valentine’s night eating chinese, watching Criminal Minds and hanging out with my dog. I went to sleep at 9pm. It was grand.
I just came back from the best trip ever with the boy. Big decisions are coming up later this year, for sure.
But yesterday, it was just Tuesday. To me, trips like that are more a celebration of our relationship than stupid red roses.
Although, I’m not...
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“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to...”
– Sylvia Plath
“What effect does it have on a writer to be constantly confronted with facts that...”
– Salon | In defense of fact checking
This is so well put. Also loving the correct use of “myriad.”
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“Reading things like this make me want to put my balls in the microwave and set...”
– A comment on Tom Scocca’s Childbirth Is A Precious Rite Of Passage, If You Enjoy Agony, Terror, And Flying Jets Of Blood (oh, come on, Dadspin).
I want to high-five this commenter because, look, I don’t have balls, but this is how I feel about the prospective of having kids, which is to say, PLEASE...
Sorry, defenders of religion. You can't sit by and...
Preach.
(pun intended)
There isn't a single logically valid, nonreligious...
spytap:
Not one. And if the only argument you have is that your specific religion disapproves, well, that’s not really an argument at all; at least not in this country.
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worldisstatic:
Just saw a pitch email in my inbox with the subject line: “Does the Knight in Shining Armor really exist?” and my first reaction was to delete it but not before saying, out loud to myself in my room, “Who gives a shit?”
maxistentialist:
Oregon Live:
Portland police said that 33-year-old David Allen Canterbury went to a local Toys R Us store, grabbed toy “Star Wars” lightsabers in each hand and started to hit customers with them. He then carried the lightsabers outside the store and swung at police. Officers tried to use a Taser to subdue him, but Canterbury successfully deflected one of the wires away.
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Unbest: Gray Chapman on The Kills’ Blood Pressures... →
unbest:
Gray Chapman on The Kills’ Blood Pressures (2001) (iTunes, Rdio, Spotify)
She is everything I’m not and everything my shaky insecurity yearns to be. She has the lanky, boyish figure; I, the rounded angles of some kind of distorted Baroque painting. Her face is sallow and sunken…
I went to go see The Kills with the lovely Gray Chapman last night. It was an experience beyond...