May 2013
"Star Trek Into Darkness": Too many dicks on the... →
nezua:
“In 2009’s Star Trek, JJ Abrams successfully made the effort to appeal to new viewers as well as dyed-in-the-wool Trekkies. This time round, he seems to be going further afield— and alienating the original fanbase entirely.
The publicity for Into Darkness has been solidly high school: Don’t worry—it may be Star Trek, but it’s not for nerds anymore! In an interview with Jon Stewart this...
British cult hit ‘The IT Crowd’ to return for... →
funsizenightmare:
WHY DIDN’T ANYBODY TELL ME ABOUT THIS
yessssssss!
Nursing home chain accused of billing gov't for... →
sinidentidades:
Each year, Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars on unnecessary medical tests and treatments. It’s one reason why health care costs are so high.
In recent months, “CBS This Morning” has been looking into the rehab practices of Life Care Centers of America. It is the third largest nursing home chain in the country, with more than 30,000 beds in 28 states.
Half-a-dozen...
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Adventures in subbing:
On Tuesday I started my day in a class of 2nd graders and their teacher introduced them to me by telling me who all the “bad” ones who “get on her nerves” were.
She told me the worst ones were in the back of the classroom so they were as far away from her as possible and wouldn’t “annoy her.”
She huffed and said “this is what it’s ALWAYS...
Victory for Seattle Teachers’ Testing Boycott:... →
sinidentidades:
Four months after staging a boycott against their own school district’s testing regime, Seattle high school teachers and their student and parent supporters have won a huge victory. On Monday Seattle Superintendent Jose Banda announced that come the next school year, the controversial Measures of Academic Progress test will no longer be a required high school assessment,...
childrenofthewildone:
I feel very conflicted watching Firefly because Mal is awesome, but the first place I saw Nathan Fillion was as Caleb on Buffy and I just hated him so much.
Frankly you might want to watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog first then. If there’s anything that will get you to reframe Nathan Fillion in your head it’s him as Captain Hammer. Mal will be...
The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese Restaurant...
zuky:
This is the story of a racist myth that began with a light-hearted letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 and subsequently exploded in North American culture — in direct opposition to every shred of scientific evidence — becoming so prevalent that credulous eaters buy into it to the point of experiencing its effects on a purely psychosomatic basis.
It’s often been called...
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four years
In a couple days it will be four years since my aunt was murdered by her partner. It has been almost four years since I wrote this post.
FOUR.
YEARS. Her murderer sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. A trial I am quite sure he knows damn well he cannot win. For a crime I am quite sure he is still running from, still blaming her for and still refusing to feel any responsibility towards....
An Open Letter to Eve Ensler
chiefelk:
Dear Eve Ensler,
I want to start off by saying thank you. I appreciate the time you took to reach out to me, because I know you’re incredibly busy. I know there are much more important people in this world than myself, so I appreciate you engaging in dialogue with me and my colleague Kelleigh Driscoll.
This all started because on Twitter, I addressed some issues that I had with...
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talking about suicidal thoughts/attempts, cutting, sexual abuse
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My niece tried to kill herself yesterday. She just turned 13. She had been through a lot including a drug addicted abusive mother and a sexually abusive father. She’s been cutting, stealing, major behavior and grade issues, i mean a lot of things you might expect from someone who has been through such fucked up...
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theprophetlilith:
theawesomesauce93:
tainopunk:
werewolvesandstarships:
scooterpiebanana:
oliviawaite:
turdlewexler:
ladysaviours:
edgar allen poe joins a fraternity
edgar allen bro
edgar allen poe makes an enemy
edgar allen foe
edgar allen poe solves crimes in a van with a dog sidekick
edgar allen ruh-roh
edgar allen poe gets a makeover and looks super cute
edgar allen...
“Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or...”
– my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via maarnayeri)
April 2013
thealiensmadethisblog:
one time i went on reddit just to see what it was like and all it was was a bunch of white cishet dudebros laughing at boring memes and making fun of women
like why this
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fabianromero:
you know whats real? pain from knowing that you have privilege that you didn’t have before and the feeling that you are leaving your parents behind when they busted their asses to get you the privilege you have now. the grief from fear of losing touch of your roots is real whether it is:
leaving the fields for another job when your parent’s can’t
learning english when your...
i’m not dealing well today.
i’m supposed to be at work in a half hour
instead i’m sitting here crying and i just want to go back to bed.
all the normal day to day deconstructions/analysis/posting i can usually do are incapacitating me
i don’t really know what’s wrong. everything i think of, it doesn’t make sense for it to be affecting me this much or even...
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annespage:
the only reason america dropped the atomic bomb was because we were at WAR idiots, if we hadn’t dropped the bomb the war would’ve lasted at lot longer. 9/11 was an act of terrorism, why don’t you go watch a video of the twin towers as they burn after the planes crash into them and later collapse in on themselves burying not only the people that worked there inside,...
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