February 2010
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January 2010
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misseffieb:
And it’s not like I’ve never felt that way— there’s a Twitter star who doesn’t follow me on Tumblr, and I do wonder why. But it’s not because I want his/her approval, it’s ‘cause I have corresponded occasionally over DM and email, connected on other social networks, and spent in-person time with this individual (that was really fun!). But: acquaintence-y as it is, I...
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Pentagon to detail new 'don't ask, don't tell'... →
The Pentagon will unveil steps next week that the military will take to lay the ground for a repeal of its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which permits gays to serve in uniform as long they hide their sexual orientation, officials said on Thursday.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, will present an...
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One Third of Women in the Military are Raped →
bmckinney:
abbyjean:
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been...
Burger King to open Whopper Bar in Miami →
To keep up with Miami’s night life, Burger King’s new Whopper bar will offer American beer and Whopper sandwiches around the clock, staying open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
It will be the chain’s first U.S. location to sell beer, and the restaurant will offer a delivery service for local customers, a walk-up window for orders on the go and an outdoor dining area.
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5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain... →
syntheticpubes:
A Democratic congressman walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here.” The Democratic congressman whimpers, “You’re right, I’m sorry, I never should’ve come in here, it’s all my fault, boo-hoo, please, bend me over, I’ll do whatever you want because I’m a little punk.” The bartender says, “Jesus Christ, you people are pathetic.”
“The entire...
South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer Compares... →
Speaking of “A Modest Proposal,” can you fucking believe this guy?
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much...
Newsflash: First Amendment Upheld. An end to... →
I know this was on the Wall Street Journal, but its title made me think it was going to be an “A Modest Proposal“-type editorial. Paragraphs from it do, indeed, read like the satirical essay I was assigned during our unit on Swift and Twain in AP English. Vis:
But the First Amendment is all about distrusting government to make those decisions about who has spoken too much....
And I wrote that last post before I'd even seen...
As someone who grew up in western Massachusetts,...
It’s all Red Sawx and beans and cream pies and “wicked retahded.” There is a whole state for 180 miles west of Boston, you know, and we don’t talk like that.
Lazy faeggets.
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Watchmerlin:
OK Go - “What To Do” (Acoustic Version, 2002)
Them boys sure can sing putry.
Reblogged because I FUCKING LOVE OKGO SO MUCH! So much! I will post about their new album soon! I’m gonna go listen to it again! Exclamation point!
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Dear theists...a question.
bmckinney:
cocknbull:
justjasper:
Any any religious people following me, or who happen across this I just want to ask something:
How do you decide which passages to ignore and which to shape your views/actions around?
I honestly don’t care if it sounds like a crass question laced with atheist-bitterness; when I don’t understand something I ask.
Why for instance do many Christians take the...
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There is something.
It’s been hard for me to write lately, so hard. It used to be easy to write anything, even though it was usually crappy and required lots of editing, but right now, I can’t get anything to come out. It’s a battle to string enough words together to write an email, and that crappy avocado post I just wrote took me hours— not because I edited it (obviously), but because I...
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Avocados, as promised.
Okay, Tumblfriends, today I’m not in a good mood, and I don’t really feel like crafting something to my satisfaction about avocados. So here, in a nutshell, is why avocados are my vice, hastily written and without the research and citations I’d planned to include.
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xntrek asked: Silly Billy ate some chilli
Silly Billie ate it in Philly
Silly Billie wore something frilly
Silly Billy was a little swilly
Was silly Billie a dilly?
Really?
Silly Billie ate it in Philly
Silly Billie wore something frilly
Silly Billy was a little swilly
Was silly Billie a dilly?
Really?
timoni asked: If I come to New York in March, can I buy you ridiculously expensive cocktails?
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Avocados are number 2.
I’ll probably write a post about avocados for the “vice” theme for this week’s Tumblr52. Why? Well, I’ll tell you in the post. But if I am honest with you and myself, avocados aren’t my real vice. I don’t drink, smoke, do drugs, or vote Republican (hi-o!). For real and honest, in a way that may not entirely be healthy, my vice is sex. I’m not going...
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The Link Absolutely No One Was Asking For... →
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Do you have/Are you a "work spouse"? →
entropyas:
Sorry, but the list of questions at the bottom are pretty much indistinguishable (for me, at least) from an “Are you headed toward an affair?” questionnaire.
Thoughts?
I don’t think this is as worrisome as you think.
Check out the questions again:
You consistently rely on a certain co-worker for pens, post-its, mints, candy and over-the-counter medication.
You share...
We booked our tickets to San Francisco!!!
In March. Still, if you’ll be there then, let’s tweet the fuck up.
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Emblematic.
For me, “momentum” was among the worst possible first topics for the Tumblr52 project. I am so bereft of it right now as a result of ten months of unemployment and a debilitating back injury that it was almost a smack in the face to think about getting some, representing some, making some, somehow.
So, on day one I decided that I would use it as a kick in the pants! My creation would...
“How many million times she had seen her face, and always with the same...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
I’m beginning to suspect that the closest relationship in my life is with a manic-depressive British lesbian who killed herself 46 years before I was born. LOL JK that’d be weird.
(Totally not JKing.)
(via vignuttes)
I don’t know if this will make you feel...