April 2012
A Couple of Thoughts on the Springsteen Keynote
markrichardson:
Finally got around to reading this. Very well done all things considered, and I can see why people who saw it in Austin responded so positively. I like this part at the end:
Don’t take yourself too seriously, and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but doubt – it keeps you awake and alert. Believe you are the...
March 2012
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The Bronx is so ugly
baddominicana:
howtobeterrell:
Nothing but brown brick buildings…like shit made out of stone…yuck
bronx hatred will not be tolerated round these parts.
the bronx is glorious and beautiful in all its scumminess.
*bangs gavel*
the bronx rules, the end.
Random question...
liquornspice:
spidersugar:
liquornspice:
Are there any studies on race and who doctors most readily give pain meds to?
Pediatricians’ pain-medication judgments affected by unconscious racial bias, says UW study (links to this study). The study is also discussed here.
This About page cites Pletcher, M., et al. “Trends in Opioid Prescribing by Race/Ethnicity for Patients Seeking Care in US...
jesus guns & nietzsche: A liberal muslim... →
superdiscochino:
nobastarezar:
A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist ”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!” At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion...
a hilarious joke
tanku:
three cats are competing in a race. there’s an american cat named “one two three”, a german cat named “ein zwei drei”, and a french cat named “un deux trois”. the cats all swim across a lake. the american cat finishes first, the german cat finishes second, but the french cat is nowhere to be found.
why?
because the un deux trois quatre cinq
lmaoooooooooooooo (via moniquill,...
“I like to look like a mistress. Like if I’m a country mistress, or a city...”
– -Willam Belli (via cocothinkshefancy)
hahahahahahahaha my new life motto! (via baddominicana)
Sounds like one RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant loved Easy A as much as I did:
Mom: No judgment, but you kind of look like a stripper.
Olive: Mom!
Dad: A high end stripper…for governors, or...
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allimmaturityandallcaps:
leonineantiheroine:
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US Government, called Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery. This report argued that transition-related treatments were medically unnecessary. As a result, consideration of federal and state aid for trans people was dropped, and private insurance...
Anonymous asked: My neighborhood is heavily black...
baddominicana:
karnythia:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
deliciouskaek:
yoisthisracist:
Yo, you’re here narcing on them now, right?
welp
People in store do something for their friends they won’t do for strangers off the street. Film at 11.
looooooooooool forever
Logic is so hard for some folks.
“how can i be down?”
you cannot.
good bye.
fucking lmao
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“I’d been playing with the app for almost two months. Why hadn’t I written about...”
– More things to read. (via katherinestasaph) This is a horrifying must-read about why “opt-out” privacy policies are fucking misleading. (TW: the specter of date rape?)
"my candidate clearly thinks anyone who's not a...
isabelthespy:
I just don’t see that being a very likely interior monologue, you know? which is horrible, but what part of anyone wanting santorum to be president was ever not horrible? everything is terrible, let’s colonize mars.
HATTIE McDANIEL: Fitting and Unfitting
chiseler:
I’ve seen Gone with the Wind (1939) many times, mostly on television, sometimes with commercials and sometimes not, and once in the theater, when it was released again in the late 1990s. The audience in that theater, when I saw the film on the big screen, was probably 80% African American. I kept watching the black members of the audience to see how they were reacting, and mainly what...
Santorum
allimmaturityandallcaps:
unpocalypse:
scarily, I think he said it on purpose. it definitely looks like a scripted “slip-up”. i think he wanted to tell the audience what he thought, with a wink and a nudge, and he thought it would get him approval because he’s said what they were all thinking. and it did - they all applauded. looks strategic.
Not for one minute do I think that was accidental....
thecranium:
hotblondecocktail:
So they found the bodies of the two missing best friends in Detroit- Ashley Conaway and Abreeya Brown. This story makes me so sad. I don’t know why but I’ve been following the story closely since they disappeared in February. For one, I spent a lot of time in that neighborhood and I feel a strange closeness to it. I’m not sure if it’s like a regular thing to feel...
“The Europeans had a practice of exiling troublesome African leaders to the West...”
– Tony Martin (via gravalicious)
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This pattern is everywhere.
sanaa-tamir:
“Fighting back is wrong!” say the folks who never had to fight to survive.
“Defending yourself makes you just as guilty!” say the folks who think getting the victims to shut up with magically make the abusers stop. Hint: it doesn’t.
I always wonder, why is the message never directed toward the one who threw the first punch, figurative or literal? Why is it always and without fail...
Lynching in the Age of Color Blindness-A Crime... →
liquornspice:
james-bliss:
From the article by Ted Pearson, Co-chairperson of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression:
‘The rate of police killing in Chicago is almost 40 times higher than the rate of lynching in the United States during the worst period of jim crow segregation and white supremacy in the United States. The rate of police killings in the country as a whole...
Mockery and the perception of benefit
blackamazon:
Mockery is about deflation.
It is on topic and on task.
Rather than general self indulgent meanness or self aggrandizement , mockery is about am,ing something less powerful.
While snark and sarcasm are contests of based on ridiculous needs of intellectual dominance Mockery is about removing the contest or from the arena.
It is called a dangerous Callout culture not because it...
isabelthespy:
a lady being angry: jemimaaslana: allies-person: Inspired by various discussions of…
roseandtrilby:
jemimaaslana:
allies-person:
Inspired by various discussions of “racism is sociopathy” on Tumblr.
This may be a controversial opinion, but I don’t believe that something being in the DSM makes it a disability. Sociopathy/Anti-social personality disorder is essentially a...
I am not _____ : thoughts on solidarity through...
lowendtheory:
wordsandsteel:
“It is probably crucial to describe the way this book is coming together, the journey it is taking me on…
Take Boston alone, I think to myself and the feminism my so-called sisters have constructed does nothing to help me make the trip from one end of town to another. Leaving Watertown, I board a bus and ride it quietly in my light flesh to Harvard Square,...
isabelthespy:
“It’s not very manly, the topic of weeping while reading.”
— oh my god, Dwight garner, go fuck yourself and your male neuroses for thinking this is a good way to start off a review of any book ever (it’s of Cheryl strayed’s wild, obvs I’m biased, but truly I think this point holds as a general rule). this is like that review of the exile in guyville re-release...
Olympia Snowe gives Obama an “F” in “paying... →
lastbutnotleast:
That’s so weird, that President Obama stopped talking to [Senator Olympia Snowe] around two years ago. I wonder what happened? That wizard probably got him, and now he hates bipartisanship. That is the only explanation I can think of for why Olympia Snowe — a Republican the president could definitely try to work with! — hasn’t heard from Obama for around two years.
So this is...
““Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big...”
– A former slave responds to his old master’s request for his return via kateoplis. (via vastmachinery)
“I know every break and hit to ‘Flim’ verbatim; I’ve listened to it more than any...”
– Skrillex! Love this. If you’re keeping track, that’s now two divergent, conversation-starting 2012 artists who had formative moments via Korn. (Do a CTRL-F for “baller shit”)
And he was into Squarepusher at 16, which, of course. Maybe he’s another one for the “can’t get into their music but hey, at...
theeducatedfieldnegro:
[image removed: photograph of a spectacle lynching in Duluth, MN]
The Original Thugs!
(responses by simply-war, dignifiedking, p4wss snipped)
trubr0wn:
this is literally less than 100 years old. LESS THAN 100 YEARS OLD. AND WHITE PEOPLE KILLING BLACK PEOPLE IS STILL NOT A CRIME. honestly this picture triggered the fuck out of me and i’m about to burst into tears...
“Dear Obama,
Can you put some parents in parents school”
– most promising opening to a piece of first-grade writing unit for persuasive letters… EVER??? (via isabelthespy)
"In an effort to provide a balanced view of our... →
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“‘You could say that black people made progress, but to say black people have...”
– Chris Rock (via vagabondaesthetics)
More accurately, we reconfigured our “crazy” to conceal its institutional and systemic continuity. 