December 2010
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the...”
– Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
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Kate Harding on the Assange Charges →
Your daily dose of sanity.
Asgard: Whites Only? →
“Using the argument that it’s never been that way is a weak excuse. Perhaps it hasn’t, but when it comes to fiction it is not our duty to uphold the racism inherent in the originals. Rather, it is our duty to work toward changing it.”
House Approves Stand Alone Repeal of DADT →
Murphy, urging support for repeal, said, “Enough of the games. Enough of the politics… . This vote is about whether we’re going to continue telling people willing to die for our freedoms that they need to lie in order to do so.”
^_^ <—- Me right now.
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New Study Concludes Feminists Right All Along →
Er, or that there really isn’t a link between abortion and mental health issues. Same thing.
“These findings support the view that previous mental health status, and not abortion experience per se, is the strongest predictor of postabortion mental health.”
“But, look, let me, let me just say this, that the president has to understand...”
– Rep. Anthony Weiner (D - New York), to whom I now pledge my love, undying as long as he remains as awesome as he’s proven to be thus far.
[via MSNBC]
Free Speech and the Use of Language →
“I was doing Six Feet Under, and I was playing a gay character, and I had some...”
– Michael C. Hall, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, via Shakesville.
Watch“I need you working with me and me working with you on how we raise our sons and teach them to be men. That it’s okay to not be dominating. That it’s okay to have feelings and emotions. That it’s okay to promote equality. That it’s okay to have women that are just friends and that’s it. That it’s okay to be whole. That my liberation as a man is tied to...
Reid indicates he might call for a vote today on... →
This really illustrates one of my major issues with the far right. I’m sure I’ll be considered too much of an idealist, but the fact that anyone is willing to put tax cuts before the equal rights of their fellow human beings is just appalling.
scheherazadeship:
“I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking...
It is always kind of fantastic to learn about random similarities I have with my mother. Apparently she specially ordered all natural shampoo when she was younger, and wore sandalwood oil as perfume. My strange addictions inherited? Who knew.