For now we are young

thewhitemankilledthetruth: cazadordementes: Un poco de...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:45:33 -0500

thewhitemankilledthetruth:

cazadordementes:

Un poco de Nahualt….

5to1: Ella Fitzgerald & Marilyn Gorgeous.

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:32:59 -0500

5to1:

Ella Fitzgerald & Marilyn

Gorgeous.

abaldwin360: ObamaCare vs. RomneyCare Infographic Gov. Mitt...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:05:37 -0400

abaldwin360:

ObamaCare vs. RomneyCare Infographic

Gov. Mitt Romney signed this health care reform law in Massachusetts in 2006. In 2010 President Obama signed the Affordable Health Care for America Act into law.

This infographic shows how similar the two laws are.

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Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:53:46 -0400

npr: This is my pick for today’s TGIF song (Send Me On My...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:51:13 -0400

npr:

This is my pick for today’s TGIF song (Send Me On My Way—Rusted Root). 2:30PM slump begone!
—Daisy

Love it.

anachronistique: I heard a peal of delight and turned around —...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:02:08 -0400

anachronistique:

I heard a peal of delight and turned around — that’s the picture at the top of this post. Hilary Matfess, a young policy analyst, was jumping up and down, yelling out details.

“The mandate is constitutional! It was upheld! Roberts went for the swing vote! Yes! Oh my God! The individual mandate survives as a tax!”

Did you work on passing the bill? I asked.

“No!” said Matfess. “I just have lupus!”

- David Weigel at Slate

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Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:20:00 -0400

I took a survey for City Year NY and this was one of the...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:35:58 -0400

I took a survey for City Year NY and this was one of the questions.

genderevolution: Just in case you doubted how much rape culture...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:28:59 -0400

genderevolution:

Just in case you doubted how much rape culture is a part of undergraduate life.

castrating-bitch:

duexchatnoir:

I converted it to an image so that it might be easier to share.

German court bans male circumcision, sparks outrage among Jews, Muslims - World News

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:39:42 -0400

German court bans male circumcision, sparks outrage among Jews, Muslims - World News:

leftwing-secularist:

greaterthanlapsed:

The court ruled that involuntary religious circumcision should be made illegal because it could inflict serious bodily harm on people who had not consented to it. Male circumcision is part of Jewish and Muslim religious tradition.

The ruling said boys who consciously decided to be circumcised could have the operation. No age restriction was given, or any more specific details.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany called the ruling an “unprecedented and dramatic intrusion” of the right to religious freedom and an “outrageous and insensitive” act.

“Circumcision for young boys is a solid component of the Jewish religion and has been practiced worldwide for millennia. This religious right is respected in every country around the world,” President Dieter Graumann said in a statement.

Fuck that.

Children are not property; they are people who deserve to have their rights respected. Non-consensual circumcision of infants and children tramples on those children’s rights to bodily autonomy and to choose a religion (and how to participate in that religion) for themselves when they are old enough.

A child born to Jewish parents and left intact may grow up and choose to be circumcised, but a child forcibly mutilated at birth can never have the choice to not be circumcised for religious reasons if they disagree with their parents’ faith.

^^^^

Religious ~~mutilation~~ right

What does it say about non-religious circumcision of babies too young to give consent? From what I understand, male circumcision has a number of valuable health benefits…

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Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:18:58 -0400

asleeponthebeach: Feminist Dalek

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:01:45 -0400

asleeponthebeach:

Feminist Dalek

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Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:58:06 -0400

"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born..."

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:02:59 -0400

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.”

- E. B. White (via insaneisanunderstatement)

2012swingstates: thedailyfeed: Confidence in U.S. public...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:44:31 -0400

2012swingstates:

thedailyfeed:

Confidence in U.S. public schools plunged to a scary new all-time low — just 29 percent! And schools aren’t alone. Across the board, it looks like Americans are losing faith in institutions.

Other record lows were recorded for the church or organized religion, 44 percent; banks, 21 percent; and television news, 21 percent.

Congress ranked last — as it has for the last three years — at 13 percent.

— ICYMI

"Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man-a..."

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:03:53 -0400

“Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man-a woman who was ‘one-in-herself.’ The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chasity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past…, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus-they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramatic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chasity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle-‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’ - the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshipped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.”

- Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother - Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (via rabbitinthemoon)

Wait this is so cool is this true?

(via realityisrunningaway)

This is awesome. Has anybody figured out the citations on this?

Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:24:29 -0400

Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?

"Heterosexists say that gay people “always want to make everyone gay” as though heterosexuals don’t..."

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 03:39:49 -0400

“Heterosexists say that gay people “always want to make everyone gay” as though heterosexuals don’t always want to make everyone straight.”

- SonofBaldwin (via littlelyonman)

realityisrunningaway: tastefullyoffensive: [video] Anna I...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:43:49 -0400

realityisrunningaway:

tastefullyoffensive:

[video]

Anna I hope you don’t mind I’m reblogging things from like page 8 of your Tumblr/I’m not creepy I swear/kthnxbye.

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Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:26:07 -0400