March 2011
February 2011
42,000 To Lose Health Care Tomorrow: Republicans... →
tumbleflakes:
robot-heart-politics:
howisthisprolife:
“According to NPR, Pennsylvania is terminating its AdultBasic Insurance program as of February 28th, 2011. It currently provides extremely low-cost health insurance coverage ($36/month) for 42,000 Pennsylvanians who are poor but not poor enough to be covered by Medicaid. Tomorrow it will cease to exist.
Why is it being axed? Because the...
Providence School Board Votes To Send Termination... →
katiedoyle:
Being a teacher is a thankless job. The kids can be awful, the parents even worse, your administrators are against you, the government is against you, and yet, you are expected to perform miracles.
You would think that after more than 200 years of being a country, we would get how incredibly important it is educate our children, but no. We do absolutely everything in our power to...
What are your preferred pronouns?
theoceanandthesky:
it-takes-a-muscle:
Totally got this idea from Meridian. But yeah, let me know. :)
OMG BEST IDEA. STEALING.
This is actually brilliant.
““Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together”
“I’ve got some real estate...”
– Just as important as beautiful melodies is beautiful words. What a marvelous poem. (via katiedoyle)
I find more poetry in music, than on most pages. Then again, I was raised on songs like this.
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape... →
stfuantichoicers:
nessfraser:
maggiemooie:
The Vatican reports cited countless cases of nuns forced to have sex with priests. Some were obliged to take the pill, others became pregnant and were encouraged to have abortions. In one case in which an African sister was forced to have an abortion, she died during the operation and her aggressor led the funeral mass.
So abortion is okay when...
“The good food movement—also known as eco-food, slow food, real food, local food...”
– From the Applied Research Center’s latest report, The Color of Food, by Yvonne Yen Liu and Dominique Apollon, PhD. Read the rest is this eye-opening and important study here. (via secretarysbreakroom)
Seriously, the ARC does amazing work.
(via champagnecandy)
We need to THINK about these...
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“On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police...”
– Indiana Official: “Use Live Ammunition” Against Wisconsin Protesters | Mother Jones
Oh, but we’re so different from Mubarak and Qaddafi! Only difference is that as a deputy AG, this guy doesn’t have the power to actually authorize such things.
(via champagnecandy)
Yes, we really are a scary...
Poem: in the beginning
in the beginning
there were shy smiles and longing glances
endless conversations about everything and nothing
finding a voice and still silencing it
because being agreeable
sometimes that’s all you’ve got
in the beginning
there were hours spent sitting on staircases
clutching a phone to my ear like a teddy bear
and laughing at the outrageousness
in the beginning
there were...
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ART: The point of prompted poems
I am a poet. Regardless of what else I may be, at any given moment - I am a poet.
This is my medium.
So, when I pester folks on twitter, for prompts, it’s a little like busking, (without the money,) it’s a little like freestyling, (without the stage) and it’s a lot like communicating with an audience, (in a different way.)
Poetry is interactive, for me. Slams, spoken word,...
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Prompted Poem: like a crime scene
for @S_S_Michaels - prompt: roadkill
sympathetic gut-twist
passes in a flicker
like mile-markers
it’s that time of year
roadkill
litters the side of the road
like fast-food trash
we have an overabundance
of deer
and the hunts aren’t due
yet
each corpse
chestnut coats spotted white
destroyed or whole
each corpse
feels like a crime scene
like something obscene
and...
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Prompted Poem: Heresies
for @elizabethamber - prompt: Galileo
Heresies
Anathema
Excommunication
Judgement
Conflict between science and faith and it’s never-ending
isn’t it?
Galileo
“Eppur si muove!”
Apocryphal words that moved the mountains of imagination
Look up
Look up
Look beyond the light pollution and the noise of a world that makes us small
in ways that have nothing to do with...
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Prompted Poem: Depth perception
for @leda_lu - prompt: a one-eyed man
hand covers eye
imagining
depth perception is compromised
more than usual
blink
blink
the world stutters through the lens of an iris
like a zoetrope
too fast, missing frames in micro-second jump-cuts
he tells the story
and it’s nothing romantic
too everyday for that
just an accident
the ordinary trauma we survive
as though it’s...
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Prompted Poem: Not done yet
for @nicolewakelin - prompt: Cookies
Memory lingers in the smallest things
the smell of kitchen chemistry
warm
images in gestalt recollection
texture beneath my fingers
as I am lost
in this
childhood mirage
her hands cover mine on a wooden spoon
fingers barely closing around it
the dry, clean scent of flour
sugar crystals lodged between my fingertips
vanilla, heady and sweet
the...
“You only had two types of characters available for children,” Mr. McDuffie told...”
– via the NY Times’ obit for the incredible Dwayne McDuffie (via georgethecat)
It’s not fair that he’s dead. He was too young, too talented, too awesome, damn it.
(via minim-calibre)
R.I.P. Dwayne McDuffie. NYT obit.
Um, this person is getting a visit from the Secret...
katiedoyle:
“Who is going to shoot Obama?”
—
An audience member at a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), a Tea Party congressman.
According to Blake Aued of the Athens Banner-Herald, who was in attendance, the question “got a big laugh.”
[tpm.]
(via thedailywhat)
What is wrong with people? Is it funny to talk about killing the president? Is killing elected officials FUNNY?...
FOX NEWS INSIDER: “Stuff Is Just Made Up” | Media... →
tumbleflakes:
Well, duh!
This is not at all a surprise.
the baddest bitch of her age.: Thanks to Juthika,... →
aintitgrand:
venomsnatch:
aintitgrand:
thejuthikakid:
venomsnatch:
Hello, hello, gato, you meowed, I can’t hear a thing. I have got no kibble in this house, you see, see, see. What-what-what did you say, you haven’t eaten all day? How can that possibly be, I just…
Funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
