January 2012
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Mitt Romney's Dog Incident Comes Back To Haunt Him →
ktempest:
What “dog incident is this?” you ask… well:
The white Chevy station wagon with the wood paneling was overstuffed with suitcases, supplies, and sons when Mitt Romney climbed behind the wheel to begin the annual 12-hour family trek from Boston to Ontario.
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Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the...
Would You Like to discuss the State of Black SciFi... →
jhameia:
If ya’ll got Facebook, pop right over. I got this in an email, so I’ll copy-paste the deets:
Purpose
To discuss the state of Black Speculative Fiction and answer pertinent questions about the viability and future of this area.
Time Schedule
From the ML King holiday until the last week of Black history month (January 16-February 27), a group of people who love Black SciFi will...
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Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother,
velocicrafter:
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. Thy were talking about finding a game for the younger one, and he was...
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
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Republicans Across The U.S. Are Trying To... →
Why do so few of us vote? Last summer I attended the Personal Democracy Forum 2011 and saw a presentation by a group of students working on a project called TurboVote. They offered up some compelling reasons why more people don’t vote:
Voting doesn’t fit the way we live.
Voting is inconvenient.
Voting hasn’t caught up to our current level of technology.
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TurboVote aims to make it as...
July 2011
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Check Out The Global Women in SF Round Table On... →
wildunicornherd:
Following Singaporean author Joyce Chng’s post “We Don’t Even Factor At All”, she, Aliette de Bodard (France), Csilla Kleinheincz (Hungary), Kate Elliott (US), Karen Lord (Barbados), and Ekaterina Sedia (Russia/US) discuss the state of the genre for women.
Some highlights:
Csilla Kleinheincz: “Many of the women who write SFF in Hungary are not even published and have to turn...
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Michelle Bachmann is running for president on a... →
This pledge is titled, “THE MARRIAGE VOW: A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY.” … To their partial credit, their pledge opens by acknowledging that one cannot claim to defend marriage without focusing on the high divorce rate, broken families, infidelity and other challenges (besides THE GAYS) “threatening” traditional marriage. … To their...
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How Conservatives Love America
“They love America the way a four-year old loves her mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a four-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. That’s why we...
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Langston Hughes: Let America Be America Again
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be...
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Being here in America doesn’t make you an American
“Well, I am one who doesn’t believe in deluding myself. I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you...
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How to Post Images on Tumblr With Better...
rosewater-sailor:
harpermd:
Tumblr’s Photo upload tool is inherently unfriendly to screen readers. Even if you include an image description, Tumblr is set up in such a way that it will read ALL the caption text TWICE. This is particularly bad when images come with long text posts beneath them. Additionally these descriptions are easily lost after several reblogs, rendering them useless and...
There is No Analysis : ANGRY black girl
blackamazon:
Right Above the lying black girl is the angry one
The actual problem with the angry black girl? IS that above all odds against all things she usually has circumvented the other stereotype plotholes prescribed to her.
She isn’t ” ghetto”
She hasn’t used militant language.
She has cited facts and figures.
Her point while sharply ( as defined by the stereotyper) expressed is...
The Good Sideshow Freaks...
karnythia:
“That much media coverage of the Duggars focuses on their normality and stability is in sharp contrast to the coverage of another large family in the media spotlight, the family of “Octomom” Nadya Suleman. Suleman’s motives, parenting skills, and even mental health were the topic of months of debate after she gave birth to octuplets in 2009, making her the sole parent of fourteen...
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badpasiqueer is mad at JIM BUTCHER →
badparsiqueer:
AND YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS DESCRIPTION SUCKS.
“Artemis Bock, proprietor of Chicago’s oldest occult shop, had been a fixture near Lincoln (FAFJKDSAF;FADJ;SADF) Park for years before I had ever moved to town. The neighborhood was a bizarre blend of the worst a large city had to offer marching side by side with the erudite academia of the University of Chicago. It wasn’t the kind...
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The War On Abortion in Kansas
karnythia:
Dr. Herbert Hodes, a Kansas ob-gyn, has a patient who is 18 1/2 weeks pregnant and has ruptured membranes. The pregnancy, he says, will not survive, and if the woman continues it, she will get an infection. He saw her on Thursday, but because of Kansas’s 24-hour waiting period, he wasn’t able to perform an abortion. And on Friday, absent a last-minute injunction, he will lose his...
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