The Triple Standard

missgingerlee: glitterbites: lanadelblondie: and now i’m...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:46:34 -0400

glitterbites:

lanadelblondie:

and now i’m crying

I want to meet him tooooo

Don’t mind me. I’m just over here bawling.

And I can attest to Peter somehow knowing exactly what to say & to be extra kind & supportive of people with SI scars if he sees them.

politicalprof: It is one of the best things about my life that...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:42:40 -0400

politicalprof:

It is one of the best things about my life that I don’t think I know anyone stupid enough to say something like this even anonymously, much less under their user name.

Grow up.

14-Year-Old Girl Gets Raped, Gets Pregnant, Gets "Whore" and "Slut" Scrawled on Her House

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:52:11 -0400

14-Year-Old Girl Gets Raped, Gets Pregnant, Gets "Whore" and "Slut" Scrawled on Her House:

Anti-choicers love to wax poetic about how beautiful it is for teenage girls to “choose life,” even when raped. Unfortunately, as a recent story out of Indiana shows, the reality is anything but beautiful. In the small town of Elwood, Ind., a 13-year-old girl was raped by a 17-year-old and impregnated. The victim opposes abortion, and while she briefly considered making an exception for herself in this case, she ultimately went ahead with the pregnancy. The result? She’s become a target for abuse and harassment in Elwood, and the formerly outgoing young woman is now a recluse.

Pro-lifers where art thou? This girl chose life - and not one of you steps up to defend her?

nowserving: James Brown

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:16:46 -0400

nowserving:

James Brown

politi-gal: preppyinpink9: wagrobanite: think-progress: Membe...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:00:50 -0400

politi-gal:

preppyinpink9:

wagrobanite:

think-progress:

Members of Congress are living off food stamps for a week to protest Republican cuts. It’s a challenge for them, but GOP cuts would hurt millions of everyday Americans.

Why does this not have more publicity. This needs it!

I’m so glad they are finally doing this!

Cory Booker did this a long time ago.

STFU, Conservatives: odinsblog: silas216: All You Need to Know About Irrational...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:35:41 -0400

STFU, Conservatives: odinsblog: silas216: All You Need to Know About Irrational...:

odinsblog:

silas216:

All You Need to Know About Irrational “Self-Defense” Laws in Three Pictures

That’s Ezekiel Gilbert. He was acquitted yesterday in the murder of Lenora Ivie Frago, who had taken $150 from Gilbert for sex and then refused to have sex with him or give…

danielu92: thedailywhat: Meanwhile in Turkey of the Day:...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:05:32 -0400

danielu92:

thedailywhat:

Meanwhile in Turkey of the Day: Re-Installing Democracy

BRB, re-installing democracy.

We need this here.

lexlosing-it: thepinkpopcorn: Ten Things To Do When You Feel...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:02:14 -0400

lexlosing-it:

thepinkpopcorn:

Ten Things To Do When You Feel Like Crap:

1. Have a really hot, long shower. Cry if you need to. Sit on the ground. Feel sorry for yourself. Let the steam soak into your skin. Let the hot water wash your face clean. But the moment you turn off that water, you are done feeling sorry for yourself. Make a decision to move on from that sadness.

2. Clean. I know, cleaning is boring and annoying - but how about that feeling you get when you are finished? The smell of the vacuum. That feeling of accomplishment? Who knows, you might even find money along the way. Totally worth it. It’s like starting with a clean slate.

3. Call a friend you haven’t spoken to for a while. If your first choice doesn’t pick up, choose someone else. Ask them all about how their lives are going and tell them about yours. Not only will it take your mind off whatever crappy thing you have been plagued by, but you will laugh with them! Laughing triggers endorphins and endorphins make you happy!

4. Go for a run or a walk. This get’s your endorphins and dopamine going crazy. You will get more energy and more happiness just because the chemicals in your body are running around!

5. Stop and take it all in. Walking in the night? Stop and look at the stars. Breathe in the cold air. Feel alive.

6. Stop whining. Ever heard the saying “love life and life will love you back”? Or, the idea of the power of attraction? It’s true! If you sit around saying “why me, waaaaa waaaa” then bad things will happen to you. You’re already defeated. If you start saying, “I will be happy, I will accomplish my ambitions, I will find love, I do look amazing, I am a great friend” etc., then not only will you start to believe them but you will be amazed at what amazing things start to happen.

7. Drink tea. This always works. Not a tea fan? Try hot water with a slice of lemon and some agave syrup.

8. Make a conscious decision to stop holding certain grudges. We all have people we have held grudges on in the past. Let them go. If you feel like you owe this person an apology, don’t be too proud. Send them a sincere facebook apology. Sincerity is in the intent, so even if it’s a 2 sentence apology - as long as you mean it it’s worth it.

9. Cook some really nice, warm food. Stimulate your taste buds with anything as simple as two minute noodles or as lavish as a three course garlic bread, pasta bake, chocolate mousse triple combo.

10. Write down a list of goals to achieve for the week. As simple as “buy insect repellent” or as large as “jog for 25 minutes non stop” and tick them off when they’re done. You will feel very accomplished and that alone will help pep up your mood!

relevant right now

"Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:20:52 -0400

““Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and adults alike gather out of fear of missing out on things that don’t even make them happy””

- A Pew study says that 94 percent of teens use Facebook, and hate it. (via ihatenietzsche)

comedycentral: Happy birthday to the late, great Maurice...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:15:35 -0400

comedycentral:

Happy birthday to the late, great Maurice Sendak, who would have been 85 today.

The incomparable author sat down with Stephen Colbert early last year for one of the most memorable Colbert Report interviews ever.

"A lot of us running around talking about politics don’t even know what politics is. Did you ever see..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:14:26 -0400

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A lot of us running around talking about politics don’t even know what politics is. Did you ever see something and pull it and you take it as far as you can and it almost outstretches itself and it goes into something else? If you take it so far that it is two things? As a matter of fact, some things if you stretch it so far, it’ll be another thing. Did you ever cook something so long that it turns into something else? Ain’t that right?

That’s what were talking about with politics.

That politics ain’t nothing, but if you stretch it so long that it can’t go no further, then you know what you got on your hands? You got an antagonistic contradiction. And when you take that contradiction to the highest level and stretch it as far as you can stretch it, you got what you call war. Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. If you don’t understand that, you can be a Democrat, Republican, you can be Independent, you can be anything you want to, you ain’t nothing.

”

- Fred Hampton (via whitedenial-ontrial)

thepoliticalfreakshow: The GOP’s Gameplan: In case you were...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:57:28 -0400

thepoliticalfreakshow:

The GOP’s Gameplan: In case you were still unclear, Texas Tea Party leader, Ken Emanuelson clears it up for you.

No, seriously, tell us what you really think. A Texas Tea Party leader admitted recently what most of us already knew, the Republican party doesn’t want African-Americans to vote.

When asked at a meeting of Texas Republicans “what can Republicans do to get black people to vote,” a Texas Tea Party leader, Ken Emanuelson, gave the following answer:

“I’m going to be real honest with you, the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.”

Ruh roh.

Vote by Shutterstock.

The Tea Party, for all of its short years, already has a long history of racism. Remember when Tea Party protesters spat on civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis and called him the n-word? Or Tea Party darling Rand Paul’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act? Or just the other day when a Tea Party leader, and former GOP party chair in Texas, accused Republican anti-tax activist Grover Norquist of being a stealth Muslim because he has a beard?

Not that the GOP is any better (and honestly, let’s stop the facade of pretending that the Tea Party is anything more than a group of conservative Republicans). The Republican party has its own checkered past of trying to impede the black vote, especially in the south. And in recent years, the GOP has doubled up its effort to disenfranchise voters from all walks of life:

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. “What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century,” says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.Republicans have long tried to drive Democratic voters away from the polls. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. “As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” But since the 2010 election, thanks to a conservative advocacy group founded by Weyrich, the GOP’s effort to disrupt voting rights has been more widespread and effective than ever. In a systematic campaign orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council – and funded in part by David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who bankrolled the Tea Party – 38 states introduced legislation this year designed to impede voters at every step of the electoral process.

We’ve seen GOP voter suppression in countless states. Ohio was one, just this past November. Arizona is another, where the GOP is challenging the Voting Rights Act itself. As our own Gaius Publius has explained, that’s the Republicans’ ultimate goal in all of this, taking down the Voting Rights Act, which was put in place specifically because racists didn’t want blacks to vote.

But it’s not just African-Americans they’re targeting, Republicans are also trying to stop college kids from voting, since college kids tend to vote Democratic. And even on the issue of voting rights for felons, when we see movement on the GOP side, it’s done in a way that’s only half sincere.

The Republican party has a long history of voter suppression, so it’s no surprise that they still want to suppress the black vote in 2013. It is surprising, however, that they’d actually admit it.

[AmericaBlog]

ostracizedpoodle: “Truth or dare” “Truth” “What’s your credit card number”

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:51:10 -0400

ostracizedpoodle:

“Truth or dare”
“Truth”
“What’s your credit card number”

stfuconservatives: manuxinhace: Fox News talks about working...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:22:38 -0400

stfuconservatives:

manuxinhace:

Fox News talks about working mothers’ negative impact on their children. AKA “When Fox News gets so misogynistic that their own anchor is 1026% done with them.” [x]

So glad we finally got some gifs of Megyn Kelly raging and laying down facts.

wilwheaton: crookedindifference: National Geographic Picture...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:19:48 -0400

wilwheaton:

crookedindifference:

National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe (1980)

I recently bought this used from Amazon for something like four dollars. It’s just as amazing and wonderful to read today as it was when I was eight.

This.

Photo

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:08:44 -0400

"You have probably figured out by now that education is not really about grades or getting a job;..."

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:10:40 -0400

“You have probably figured out by now that education is not really about grades or getting a job; it’s primarily about becoming a more aware and engaged observer of the universe. If that ends with college, you’re rather wasting your one and only known chance at consciousness.”

- John Green, commencement address, Butler University (via politicalprof)

meanplastic: future is now

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:46:37 -0400

meanplastic:

future is now

vdubali: edwn: Just to provide some perspective on the...

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:36:24 -0400

vdubali:

edwn:

Just to provide some perspective on the accusation that Obama spends like a college freshman who just got a credit card. It’s no wonder Republicans hate fact-checkers…

THANK YOU

dailykos: Surprise! CBO report shows 50% of government tax...

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:34:50 -0400

dailykos:

Surprise! CBO report shows 50% of government tax expenditures go to top 20% of earners