24 5 / 2013
PSA: Today on Amazon.com, the complete series of The West Wing is 73% off.
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24 5 / 2013
Pardon me for sounding politically opportunistic, but maybe this bridge collapse in Washington state will prompt a new infrastructure discussion in this country. We desperately need it.
Pssssh.
It’s not like we have hundreds of thousands of skilled construction workers who are hard up for work.
It’s not like there’s all that work going undone and people who can do it.
Oh wait.
23 5 / 2013
Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing 'Other People's Money' | ThinkProgress
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) agitated against food aid for poor Americans included in the Farm Bill during last week’s House Agricultural Committee debate, accusing the government of stealing “other people’s money.” Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has already beendecimated in both the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill, cutting off nearly 2 million working families, children, and seniors from food assistance.
Fincher invoked the Bible in his defense of the devastating cuts, quoting, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
At a Holiday Inn in Memphis over the weekend, Fincher expanded on his version of the Christian social gospel: “The role of citizens, of Christians, of humanity is to take care of each other, but not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others in the country.”
23 5 / 2013
lets do a thing. reblog and add your city and country. if it's already there, don't add it again. lets take a look at tumblr's diversity
- Shanghai, China
- Pisa, Italy
- Longkou, China
- Brisbane, Australia
- University Place, USA
- Salamanca, Spain
- Cambridge, England
- London, England
- Siuntio, Finland
- Edinburg, USA
- Los Angeles, USA
- Alicante, Spain
- Castellon, Spain
- Valencia, Spain
- New Orleans, USA
- Chicago, USA
- Brooklyn, USA
- Austin, USA
- Princeton (NJ), USA
22 5 / 2013
This dude was happily taking pictures of girls legs, feet and whatever else he pleased without their consent. So I snapped my own pic and said “enjoy the internet motherfucker’. He laughed at me. Plz share. #publicshame #newYork #subway
(via dontbearuiner)
21 5 / 2013
fun fact: me in the white shorts
fun fact: me in the gray shorts kissing the cutest boy in the world
(Source: sharonosbourne, via dontbearuiner)
20 5 / 2013
Wayne Brady calls “bullshit” on Bill Maher.
I would be happy if anyone beat Maher’s ass in public, but especially so if it were Wayne Brady
and more context from the article:
Maher first explained his desire for Obama to be a “real black president” who “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants” during a monologue in 2010. Subsequently, Maher referred to Obama as “your Wayne Brady,” a characterization that put into question the African-American credentials of both Obama and Brady.
“I’ve respected him as a comedian, and what he does on HBO is great,” Brady told Hill. “But when he starts to drag me in, to use me as the cultural linchpin of his not-black-enough argument, that’s bullshit.”
Man, don’t mess with Wayne Brady. I love this guy.
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18 5 / 2013
my favorite thing about kermit the frog is that sometimes he makes this face
That is a great face.
(via dontbearuiner)
18 5 / 2013
17 5 / 2013
And this is why Nine is my Doctor.
Suddenly I understand what one of my huge issues has been with the latest Doctor Who episodes
The Doctor has been reacting with horror rather than wonder, and running rather than communicating
Thanks 9 you’ve helped me come to a point of clarity
And people thought Christopher was a bad Doctor.
He’s amazing.Which people? D:
Without Christopher leaving, we would not have the glory that was David, but whyyyyyyyy did he leave? For the artistic fulfillment of GI JOE?
(Source: timelordsandladies, via lagoble)
16 5 / 2013
"The first time I read ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ I was sitting in 10th grade English class. But there is one image that stays with me. The description of crops going unharvested even as workers are eager and willing to pick the food. He writes:
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the time, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.
And the smell of rot fills the country.
He wrote those words more than 70 years ago, yet the conditions he describes still ring true for 50 million Americans living in food insecure households today… . Hungry families do not have enough food… [but] not because of scarcity. Every year 40% of food produced goes uneaten. That’s 20 pounds of food per person per day. And that is the twisted irony of hunger in America today. What Steinbeck called that crime that goes beyond denunciation, landfills brimming with rotting food while 15% of households don’t have enough to eat."
15 5 / 2013
Scumbag Time Magazine:
2006: YOU’RE THE PERSON OF THE YEAR BECAUSE YOUTUBE AND STUFF
2013: YOU’RE SO SELF-ABSORBED OMG
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14 5 / 2013
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In case you haven’t heard yet, after discovering she had a gene that made it 87% likely she would get breast cancer, Angelina Jolie had a preventative double-mastectomy. And I’ve been thinking about two words that have been enraging me:
“Poor Brad.”
See, because, Angelina Jolie’s tits were for Brad’s entertainment, and he had ownership of the best tits in the world, and now they’re gone. This is a loss to Brad, you see. As men, we should feel sympathy for him, as expressed in a very common comment left across many news sites.
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