March 2012
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“It’s all about being the cause of an erection. That’s our value. And if you...”
– Roseanne Barr
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lmao
People v. Watts, 66 Ill App 3d 971, 384 NE2d 453 (1978) (spectator in courtroom wearing t-shirt with words “Bitch, Bitch, Bitch” was not so obviously disruptive as to eliminate necessity of proving intent to commit criminal contempt.)
February 2012
officialkylieminoguedragqueen:
rihanna update she hates bananas
Anonymous asked: how come you never wear any makeup? not that it's a bad thing
Anonymous asked: ur sexy & u kno it
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Anonymous asked: you seem really even-handed and logical whenever you express an opinion and i really appreciate that, but it never betrays the intensity of your (perceived) feelings or beliefs. i find myself nodding to your eloquent and sensible thoughts so often that i am at the point of default agreement, which is actually something i need to shake off. Thank you so much, you are one of those rare voices that...
Reblog if you want anonymous opinions about you.
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Anonymous asked: What's the best way to make yourself enjoy work? Self-imposed rewards morph from happy little aids into ugly distractions... And failure as an incentive works, but only as a really limited expedient, like hobbling with a crutch instead of healing the leg itself. Please help!
remembering when i’d wait for hours after school in 6th grade and had nothing to do so sometimes i’d try 1 800 numbers on the payphone by the administration office. and my favorite was 1 800 flowers because i would try on different characters and occasions for different flower arrangements
i stopped after i tried just being myself ordering flowers and the operator snipped...
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"Meryl Streep Was the Comfortable Choice And... →
If anything, it seems like giving the award to Streep wasn’t a political choice or an artistic choice, it was a comfortable choice. From Billy Crystal’s old soft-shoe razzle-dazzle opener to that timely Sammy Davis Jr. impression (plus blackface!!!), this year’s Oscars were nothing if not a pre-chewed paean to old-timey comfort. Meryl Streep is familiar, Meryl Streep is safe,...
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America’s wealth was essentially created by the slave trade. Scholars have traced how the Industrial Revolution was funded directly by capital accumulated in the slave industry. Malachi Postlethway, an eighteenth-century economist, described the slave trade as “the first principle and foundation of all the rest, mainspring of the machine which sets every wheel in motion.” There...
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my mother was in two verbally and emotionally abusive relationships. when she was still married to her second husband, she told me that “it wasn’t really…well, you know, he’s just like that…this relationship’s not like that…i couldn’t make the same mistake twice…
…i want to take him to therapy but he refuses…he’s just...
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"Why kids need solitude" Alice Karekezi... →
You write that we “mistake distraction for engagement”? How so? How does it affect even mental cognition?
I’m not a psychologist, but in the classroom and in many discussions on education, what I see is an emphasis on keeping the students busy from start to finish. Not letting a moment creep in where they don’t have something specific to do, something concrete where they are actually producing...
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Watchfuckyeahharajukubarbie:
Dirty Money - Nicki Minaj
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mattywhatever asked: post a poem you like
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nothing compares 2 u - me
messing around with my...
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i finally finished earthbound and now i’m filled with courage and strength and appreciation for family and community
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bapeonion asked: i'm in a class where we often discuss modernizing 17th century plays. "would a mixed race cast affect the story; would racial stereotypes change this play" come up a lot. the class is 99% white. (full disclosure: me too.) the responses are uneducated backwards ingrained shit: "racial stereotypes are unavoidable," "mixed race casts are troublesome," "lovers...
karl rove just called fox news “the mothership”
you gotta get a babe who will cook with you
and when you come home tired, they’re cooking for you ;)
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of the… )
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Anonymous asked: do rapists deserve to be raped? i'm inclined to say yes. thoughts?