February 2012
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7 worst international aid ideas →
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Maybe their hearts were in the right place. Maybe not. Either way, these are solid contenders for the title of “worst attempts at helping others since colonialism.”
1. One million t-shirts for Africa
2. TOMS Buy-One-Give-One
…dumping shoes in places where people might otherwise be employed to make them.
3. Machine gun preacher
Problems with Sam Childers, the...
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Manny and Luke are so hilarious. I love how they live in their own little world. Can’t wait til Lilly can talk more.
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Neighborhood # 1 (Tunnels) Funeral Arcade Fire
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i want to watch paradise ranch again. i have no right to ever comment on how good a drama is ever. although i remember thoroughly enjoying it and really loving the heroine. i hate how reading all the negative reviews of it have tinged my experience of it.
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“Chat tombe nan dlo cho, li pe dlo fret.
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– Haitian Saying
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Sometimes times I return to thing’s I’ve written and I’m like, “Who wrote this? What the hell is it saying?” and it just seems like it took so much energy and I become exhausted just thinking about it.
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Can someone explain to me why Retta isn’t on that photoset going around with the Parks n Rec cast as kids/before they were famous? Would having her upset the delicate balance of the photoset?
The guy who plays Jerry is on there, right? Jerry.
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“It took an activist campaign that brought out the Ku Klux Klan and police dogs,...”
– Geroge Lakey, from here
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Brazil’s Construction Boom Eases Integration of... →
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PORTO VELHO, Brazil, Feb 21, 2012 (IPS) - Pierre was in the next-door country of Dominican Republic when the January 2010 earthquake destroyed half of Port-au-Prince and killed at least 200,000 of his fellow Haitians, including his wife and his mother. His two sons, ages 13 and 14, survived. He left them with friends when he came to Brazil. But his tragedy did not end there. His...
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As I Lay Me Down Whaler Sophie B. Hawkins
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Mmmm, I love me some confession scene goodness. Mmm.
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Oh, oh, Kyung Jong, my squishy, food-loving, baby, my fav of all the boys, has a single mom, like me! He’s just so cute.
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Ugh, god, then Seung Hoon comes in and ruins it. GO. AWAY. I wanna hear Su Ah playing.
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oh no.
this always happens. i fall for the heroine of a show and then the show sticks it to her.
please be good to su ah. please?
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OH MY GOD. OH. MY. GOD.
SU AH PLAYS THE PIANO. SU AH PALYS THE PIANO!!!!!!!
PLEASE, GOOD GOD, HAVE HER MUSICAL TALENT BE SOMEHOW EMPLOYED IN THIS SHOW PLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEE. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!
I wish I had the coherence right now to explain how much I want her artistic talents, whether they lie in music or in drawing, to be a significant part of her story and...
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“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off.”
“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Good god, I think I’m in love with Margaret Atwood.
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The Edible Woman is just delightful. So good. Marian may be a new favorite character. She’s hilarious. So is Clara. I’m only about halfway through the book, but so far Marian’s full of imagination and makes up these fantastic stories in her head to give reason to the world around (and to justify her fiance’s assholery) but she’s also kind of listless and meandering.
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Ultrasound Abortion Bill Nears Vote in Virginia →
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Richmond, Virginia - A bill requiring a woman to get an ultrasound before having an abortion is poised to pass Virginia’s legislature this week, placing it on track to be signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell.
The bill, which could pass the Republican-led House of Delegates as early as Tuesday, is one of the stronger ultrasound laws passed by states in recent years. If it is adopted,...
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Occupy Movement Targets Corporate Interest Group... →
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One of the better known examples of Alec’s influence can be found in Arizona’s SB 1070 bill. The legislation, seen as one of the strictest anti-illegal immigrant laws in America’s history and criticised by Barack Obama, was modelled on Alec’s “No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants Act”, which had been approved by an Alec task force made up, in...
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Building Sustainable Future Needs More Than... →
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“When we talk about sustainability we are talking about the future, how things could be. This is the landscape of imagination,” Robinson told IPS. “If we can’t imagine a better world we won’t get it.” This imagining will be complex and difficult. Sustainability encompasses far more than just scientific facts – it also incorporates the idea of how...
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A violent gangster woke up one day and decided he wanted to become a chef. ‘Cause, you know, that happens.
{Insert 90s Michael Jordan McDonald’s “It could happen” gif]
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WHAT THE HELL WILD ROMANCE PREVIEW?
Show, I have accepted all your nonsensical-ness/ity (? It’s early in the morning!). But. If you don not have Eun Jae saing Mu Yeol’s ass. If you have Mu Yeol, the baseball player, saving Eun Jae, THE BODYGUARD…Well. That’ll be the end of our relationship. I will move on to Kimchi Family. I’m warning you.
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OMG, Kimchi Family is hilarious. We’ve got a gangster with a heart of gold and a delicate tongue, a spunky, perfectionist chef, who stands up to assholes and FOOD.
Hello, new kdrama, goodbye life.
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[TW: Rape Culture; TW: Sexual Harassment]
A Documentation
Last week while walking with a friend two men started calling after us about how much they “liked [our] thighs.” We just continued walking.
Today I was walking home from my sister’s at around 10:30 pm when I was approached by an older man. At first I just avoided him by lowering my eyes, and turning my head...
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It’s like Shut Up Flower Boy Band is made for gifs.
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Deep at Night (Adam K & Soha Remix) Ercola...
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[Spoilers]
from dramabeans:
“In the end he realizes that he isn’t ready for marriage, and plans to work hard from the ground up and make something of his life, which is the first really big moment of maturity for the youngest. He asks Yeo-wool to wait two years, but she knows better and asks for a clean break.
They’re both heartbroken, but they leave it open-ended, and this is one...
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Donna’s hair is just so fabulous on Parks n Rec, I can’t stand it!
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That Awkward Moment When…you discover someone and you wish you hadn’t.
Camille Paglia is just unsavory. I’m reading quotes from “The M.I.T. Lecture: Crisis in the American Universities” Sex, Art, and American Culture, and everything she says just makes me want to puke. Rape is abut ethics, yes, but it does belong in women’s studies, and it is a feminist issue....
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“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
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“American, French, I don’t care. When you start bombing the brown races of...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“I grew up with traditions from my country, but later, more often, from your...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“The ends of the earth are never the points on a map that colonists push against,...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“I am so tired Kip, I want to sleep. I want to sleep under this tree, put my eye...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“A novel is a mirror walking down a road.”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“They were not romantic people. They had survived the Fascists, the English,...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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“Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them. Or from something as...”
– The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
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Racialicious: 2 Days in New York Sundance Review →
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“Madcap comedy” is the only phrase that really describes the absolute ridiculousness that is Julie Delpy’s 2 Days In New York. There really isn’t any other term that fits–the experience is akin to watching a circus unfold in your living room, which I assume is the point. Julie Delpy is Marion, a deeply eccentric Parisian-born artist based in New York who is trying to juggle the demands of a...
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