May 2011
40 Literary Terms Every Bookworm Should Know →
Useful things.
Dramatic Need: International Child Art Foundation →
“Are the urgent problems afflicting local communities and the world today (global warming, grinding poverty, mushrooming violence…) mere symptoms of something deeper and fundamental? Is it the prevailing system of thinking and feeling? Where do universal, longer-lasting solutions lie? Art →…
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Poem: Count backwards - Memorial Day
Ten years
Or eight
or twenty-one
or fifty-six
or sixty-one
or seventy
or…
It’s rows of headstones
rows of crosses
rows of poppies
Where are the thanks of a grateful nation
for the, “Last full measure of devotion?”
Where is the remembrance?
Where is the care for lives unlived?
We build empires on blood-soaked ground
Talking about honor
We don’t enact
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Keep your Boehner out of my Uterus!: Abortion... →
karnythia:
So, there’s this lawmaker out of Kansas who has lots to say about abortion. He’s currently best known for saying that women should plan ahead in case of rape and not expect their regular insurance to cover an abortion if they want one after being assaulted. And we could spend a…
Click through and read the whole thing. It’s a little intense, but this is what happens every...
Proposed WIC Cuts Would End Food Assistance for... →
House Republicans are proposing a cut in the WIC nutrition program that would force WIC to turn away 325,000 to 475,000 eligible low-income women and young children next year. This cut — part of the 2012 appropriations bill that Rep. Jack Kingston, chairman of the House agriculture appropriations subcommittee, unveiled today — would break a 15-year commitment by Administrations and Congresses...
Dramatic Need: Art and science add up University... →
dramaticneed:
Art and science add up
University finds correlation in musical ability and maths proficiency
May 23, 2011 11:03 PM | By KHULEKANI MAZIBUKO
Joseph Khorommbi, a maths teacher in the grade 11 class at Mbilwi Secondary School in Sibasa, Limpopo. The school is one of South…
Yes, because music IS math.
First Common. Now Lenny.
starfishncoffeeinsunnydale:
glossylalia:
squee-gee:
They keep using the word “thug”. I do not think it means what they think it means.
#PeopleWhoAreMoreHoodThanLennyKravitz
Wait. WTF?!?!?!!? Someone called Lenny Kravitz a THUG???!!!
If it wasn’t so insulting and enraging, it would be laughable because it’s absolutely ABSURD. So Basically…Black = Thug.
I’m so sick of this shit.
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“Perhaps, also, if white women could recognize SlutWalk as being rooted in white...”
– Racialicious, “Slutwalks vs. Ho Strolls” (via softjunebreeze)
Things to think about. *I* may find SlutWalks a reclaiming act, but I don’t want to leave out women who experience the same type of shaming, under a different name. The experiences we have are different, but not, and yet they drive...
Congress May Put Restrictions on Teaching Doctors...
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Apparently just removing funding and installing waiting periods and requiring ultrasounds isn’t enough any more, now Republicans are trying to make it harder for doctors to get training in providing abortions as well:
http://jezebel.com/5805280/congress-may-put-restrictions-on-teaching-doctors-to-perform-abortions
[Added by moderator: RAAAAGGGGEEEEE!!!!!]
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Newsflash! Eric Cantor (R-Asshole) is a giant... →
wilwheaton:
In the aftermath of Sunday’s devastating tornado in Joplin, Mo., a key House panel has approved a $1 billion aid package to make sure federal disaster relief accounts don’t run out before the end of the budget year in September.
The Appropriations panel approved the measure by voice vote as an amendment to a measure funding the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other...
“Nerds are allowed to LOVE stuff. Like...”
– John Green (via bookstorecouture)
Nerds. We win. Because WE LOVE THINGS. Life is not made of MEH, when you’re a nerd. WE CAPSLOCK because WE CARE. Also, nerds get to be silly more than regular adults do. SILLY IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
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Geek Girl Con is looking for an LGBT-Geek... →
Yo - SEATTLE. GO.
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“April 26, 2011
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into...”
– Alan Rickman (via soundtracktofallinginlove)
Auto-reblog for Rickman.
“We think the [Girl Scouts’] national leadership has been infected with a radical...”
– That’s Terry McKeegan of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM for short!), who claims that the Girls Scouts of America is really a front to push a radical progressive anti-family anti-modesty agenda. I learned to plant in Girl Scouts, sold crafts to raise money for our troop, and...
“Life insurance is something that you pay a premium for and, if you have an...”
– Robin Marty, at Care2.com, responding to a Kansas lawmaker’s assertion that getting pregnant from rape is as inconvenient as a spare tire and an event for which women should carry insurance. (via cognitivedissonance)
The next step in rape culture: if you can’t afford an abortion, it’s your fault...
Doctor Who Recap S6x05: The Rebel Flesh →
nerdsinbabeland:
Image Courtesy of doctorwho.bbcamerica.com/
Warning: Of course there are spoilers.
What does it mean to be human? What defines us as real? When does our capacity for science and…
“In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have...”
– The New Geopolitics of Food (via azspot)
Why @elonjames rules - read it, please.
starfishncoffeeinsunnydale:
“I think I’ve finally hit that magical wall where I can’t deal with any more faux anthropological studies about how my people interact on the social networking service. There isn’t any need to “study” this anymore. If you want to “study” something, study why, in the post-racial year of 2011, 13 percent of the population is still treated like “other.” Study why our...
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What do the TARDIS, Anime, and Nancy Drew have in...
Geek Girl Con, of course!
”GeekGirlCon “hearts” Japan! Last month at Sakuracon, GeekGirlCon kicked off our Tsunami Relief Art Sale. Our GeekGirlCon Design Team is selling limited edition art prints through our Etsy shop (geekgirlcon.etsy.com) and at GeekGirlCon events in the Seattle area to support the Japanese Red Cross.
Look for new prints each month between now and October. Every...
