If it’s no surprise, why is this breaking?
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Whedon on Romney.
(via Michael, Dryade - FB)
So… about that local parcour and urban survival group…
(Source: facebook.com)
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legitimate rape
I read about this in the Australian news today. I don’t even know where to begin.
Does he think there’s a switch in your body that goes “Far out, is this rape? Is it legitimate rape. Let’s see. Did the human consciousness I’m attached to say ‘no’ when she really means ‘yes’? I’m not sure. Well… actually, she seemed like she really meant it. Right then, blocking all reproductive operations now!”
Is this the state of the American education system? That a man his age has nfi how the human body works? Or did he completely skive off during the human biology bits? Does he also think that virgins can’t get pregnant when they have sex for the first time?
And he said he was advised this by doctors. Which doctors? Can we have their names so that we can ensure they never practice ever again?
“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Akin said, referring to conception following a rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”
-representative todd akin on abortion in the case of rape.
whole article here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rep-todd-akin-no-pregnancy-from-legitimate-rape-20120819,0,7447581.story
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Listen to the new President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins — a noted intellectual, having written two volumes of poetry — unleash his wrath on talk show host Tea Party mouthpiece Michael Graham.
Yay, Ireland!
I wish more politicians included “Wanker!” in their debates.
Fucking awesome.
Oh, snap.EPIC BURN
This was beautiful.
What a wonderful rant.
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We Stopped Dreaming (by lhite)
Neil deGrasse Tyson killed it on last Friday’s Bill Maher talking about the defunding of the space program:
“First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA?
And so when someone says, “We don’t have enough money for this space probe,” I’m asking, no, it’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that the distribution of money that you’re spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.
You remember the 60s and 70s. You didn’t have to go more than a week before there’s an article in Life magazine, “The Home of Tomorrow,” “The City of Tomorrow,” “Transportation of Tomorrow”. All of that ended in the 1970s. After we stopped going to the Moon, it all ended. We stopped dreaming.
And so I worry that the decision that Congress makes doesn’t factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow. Tomorrow’s gone. They’re playing for the quarterly report, they’re playing for the next election cycle, and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation, and the rest of the world is going to pass us by.”
To plan for the future, we not only have to envision it, but we have to at least make attempts — even if they fail — to achieve it. We don’t anymore.
That’s where you’re wrong. De-prioritizing education and the arts, encouraging and facilitating corporate greed, ensuring that the rich get richer at any cost, engaging in ill-advised and costly wars, holding the nation’s economy hostage in order to force an idealogical agenda… that IS planning for the future. It’s just not the future you or I want.
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France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prior to a meeting of Group of Eight powers, on March 14, 2011 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (Getty)
(via napifix, davidberes)
Lovely candid shot.
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Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers.
(via mustamuseme, insideoutnight, suitep) (by Nevine Zaki)
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The Most Brilliant Thing Ever Said About Republicans [VIDEO]
Yes, I must say this is quite amusing.
Arr.
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