May 2012
I was singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” today waiting for some food and I was told I sounded like Zooey Deschanel. I’ve got a mild sore throat, but I didn’t know how I should take it.
/personal blurb.
“Why is it, do you think, that children are always too young to hear the truth but never too young to be lied to, systematically, conscientiously, in the name of ‘education’?”
— Ward Churchill on Perpetual War and State-Sponsored Terrorism
violentopinions:
“Almost every tow we did contained plastic, regardless of the depth.”
— Giora Proskurowski, a University of Washington researcher. His new research has found that natural ocean processes such as wind, drag, turbulence and wave height can push the plastic deep down, where it floats along, suspended underwater and unobserved by people examining the ocean’s surface. The new report...
“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?”
—Sir Ken Robinson
April 2012
I am so horrible at talking to people online…jesus. Small talk online is not something I’m good at. Particularly when he and I used to be assholes to each other (it was only teasing, though) and being nice is, well, different.
I work for a Rape Crisis Center in Florida, and I...
dirtywhrrrl:
…which are pro-life, Christian based organizations masquerading as medical facilities and use their money and time to push a pro-life, anti-abortion agenda, regardless of the health or desires of the pregnant person.
My head executive director just got this news, and the whole building is fucking livid.
Let me reiterate that for you.
Rick Scott took money from neutral, victim...
Trying not to look too far into the little things. I can hope, though.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in...
– Clarence Darrow, “Scopes Trial” courtroom speech, July 13, 1925
Before anyone takes offense to the use of word fagot, please note that a fagot is a bundle of twigs and sticks often used as fuel to set things on fire; namely people in the 16th century.
With that cleared up, how sad it is that...
Had a dream about saving kittens from the rain with pieces of an umbrella, then another about standing on a huge wooden head with my friend, fighting off large, skinny tarantulas…
So clearly, I’ve been dealing with the stress the last week and half well. Hopefully one good night of sleep in this very short break?