Dezember 2010
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”
– Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via khadeejafinds)
Perhaps, I was born with curiosity.:... →
Dehumanization is the process by which members of a group of people assert the “inferiority” of another group through subtle or overt acts or statements. Dehumanization may be directed by an organization (such as a state) or may be the composite of individual sentiments and actions, as…
“[“Multiversity:”] Described as a tour of the 52 universes, this upcoming...”
– Newsarama’s “11 for ‘11: Things to Watch in the New Year - SERIES/GNs” (via fuckyeahgrantmorrison)
Creepy Sleepy: Video - Hell Freezes Over: Pat... →
creepysleepy:
Charley Bravo - 12/23/10
Well baptize me with bong water! In a word of wisdom tantamount to admitting evolution is a fact, Pat Robertson has called for marijuana legalization.
“We’re locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you…
The Gender Imbalance in Family Movies (via... →
padaviya:
Larry Harnisch, of The Daily Mirror, sent in a link to a story at the NYT regarding study released by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media about the under-representation of women and girls in “family” movies — that is, movies rated G, PG, and PG-13. The authors looked at all English-language fictional G-rated films released in the U.S. or Canada between September 2006 and...
“As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (via liquidnight)
“As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (via liquidnight)
Tweet #MooreandMe if You Hate Rape Apologists!... →
padaviya:
Feminists of the blogosphere, if you haven’t been tweeting the #MooreandMe hashtag, it’s time to start.
For those of you outside of the Twitterverse/blogosphere/jargon-y tech world, yesterday Sady Doyle and Jaclyn Friedman started a Twitter campaign asking Michael Moore to apologize for his dismissal of the rape charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Because I certainly...
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" Repeal: This Day Has... →
creepysleepy:
@joshsternberg:
He was unconscious but still alive, gargling up blood. His face was so disfigured no one was sure of his race, much less his name. Patrolman Anthony Aptimes got a pulse, then lost it. He wiped the…
There’s so much win in this piece.
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
STFU, Conservatives: House passes repeal of DADT →
stfuconservatives:
Good news, but we still need the Senate.
…Many Republicans, led by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, argue that it would be a mistake for the military to undergo a major cultural change while the nation is fighting two wars.
The issue has also split the military. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and…
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“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to...”
– Virginia Woolf (How Should One Read a Book?)
Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the... →
creepysleepy:
Looking at things like this kind of makes the debate over taxes and the debt and almost every single argument that the political right comes up with in this country seem kind of stupid, doesn’t it?
Oh, they’ve always seemed that way.
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The Pope, Condoms, and Contraception: Let's Get... →
padaviya:
questions remain about the extent to which religious beliefs about sexual morality should influence global AIDS policy. Catholic positions against contraception and limiting sexual intimacy to lifelong monogamous heterosexual marriage have been seen as the major reason the Vatican, bishops in various regions of the world, and Catholic AIDS providers have refused to provide condoms...
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