February 2012
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Obama Offers an "Accomodation" on Contraception... →
Dear Obama,
THIS exactly is one of the reasons a lot of your supporters are frustrated with you. You have NO reason to compromise here. Most Americans agreed with you. Fuck, most CATHOLICS agreed with you. Why do you offer the compromise and concede important high ground for no reason? Not everyone is going to like you, especially not the folks who will find ANY reason to demonize you. Get over...
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And this is why we've been friends since the age...
Me: When I live near you, can we put on music and dance around my house for no reason? Like when everyone is home alone and dances around, just together.
Kally: I would be really pissed if that didn't happen.
deenaroo asked: I posted some photos of my apt the other day. Still needs some more work, but I'm getting there.
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and I'm gonna need to step away from the tumblr...
too much discussion about things that are filling me with rage and/or tears. good discussions, mind you… I just can’t, today.
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I find myself wondering
kalamazu:
mrsbadcrumble:
how many people would be vigorously nodding their heads in agreement if the government declared that all Jewish institutions/schools had to serve pork and would say it’s not a big deal because “a lot of them eat pork anyway.”
We need to disentangle insurance from employment. We need to get back to thinking of it as a safety net for catastrophic things, not for free...
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safron Foer
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deenaroo:
So last week I bought a polaroid camera and I today I ordered a record player.
What decade am I in?
who cares what decade?
life. deena’s doing it right!
“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “I’m Working on the World” in Poems New and Collected, trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (via proustitute)
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Watcha short film about being out for hours dealing with crowds of people who care about football, coming home and being really content to have a tiny beast sleeping on my belly as I get to quietly read.
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One Town's War on Gay Teens | Politics News |... →
Just read this heartbreaking article (massive trigger warning for bullying/hate/violence) - it’s really worth reading if you are able to get through it. I wasn’t able to without tears/rage, but I’m glad I read it. I can’t really handle the amount of people who would say that what is happening in this first quote has nothing to do with what is happening in the second.
I...
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“People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they...”
– Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto (via thechocolatebrigade)
yes.
(and so much love for Banana Yoshimoto, I read “Lizard” in college and was absolutely obsessed with it. I should pick up more of her work.)
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