March 2012
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Public service announcement:
Group work is literally the worst thing ever.
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Police officer punches rape victim in the face and... →
When officers arrived, Gibson said she was hiding in a closet naked. She said the officers ordered her to leave the closet.
“I told them what had just happened to me and I asked for a female officer and the officer said I didn’t have that option because it wasn’t my house,” Gibson said. ”I told them I was naked. I told them I had just been raped and that I did not...
February 2012
Cafepress under fire for Anti-Mexican merchandise
thenoobyorker:
nbclatino:
Cafepress removed its Anti-Mexican page after complaints. An Anti-Mexico page remains up (Screenshot)
Cafepress is an e-commerce website where you can buy user-submitted t-shirts, mugs, tote bags and much more. All manner of merchandise is available for purchase — including anti-Mexican items.
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This is disgusting. With that said, let me stress that for...
That explains all the kids
Ann Romney, in Michigan, about her travels: This week I’ve been all over the state, up and down, to the tip of the mitt.
GOP strategist / CNN contributor Alex Castellanos: I guess that explains all the kids.
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uncdan:
How the clash between John Maynard...
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Currently listening to Brahms' 3rd symphony.
Fun fact, Brahms was such a perfectionist that he burned many of his early works. He spent 15 years working on his first symphony, and he’s said to have destroyed his first 20 string quartets before he was happy enough with one to release it. He also died in an insane asylum.
The relationship (“friendship”) between Brahms and Clara Schumann (the composer Schumann’s...
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lordoftheinternet:
I don’t think flowers give a fuck if he loves you or not.
Seriously, why you gotta go around ripping a living organism to shreds to guess whether or not he loves you? You could just look at the flower and count the petals. If they’re odd, he loves you. If they’re even, he loves you not.
Or you could just behave like a sentient being and ask him.
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whompkills asked: how do u get followers ^_^
Remember when the Spice Girls
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“We didn’t win by a lot but we won by enough and that’s all that...”
– Mitt Romney, speaking from his state campaign headquarters in Novi, Michigan. Romney won both the Arizona and the Michigan primaries tonight.
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“If you show patience, I’ll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep,...”
– Rumi
“In failing to implement a living wage for its lowest paid employees, the...”
– Joseph Williams
Williams is one of 18 Virginia students participating in a hunger strike — now more than a week long — to protest the poor wages paid to many of the university’s contracted service employees.
Williams decried the pay disparity between “hundreds of contract workers who may make as...
Tumblr: America needs to stop being racist and sexist, pay more attention to women and PoC ok
CBS: Hey guys guess what we decided Watson should be played by a Taiwanese, female actress in our version of Sherlock Holmes
Tumblr: NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT HOW DARE YOU I AM BOYCOTTING YOUR SHOW I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED
Watchjoshishollywood:
Josh, I don’t want to know what kind of nightmarish digging you have to do to find these videos, but I salute you.