December 2008
86 posts
Rule Shields Health Workers Who Withhold Care... →
Oh, hey, fuck you, George W. Bush! And your last minute pandering to the religious right. I hope you get testicular cancer and your doctor exercises his right of conscience not to treat you.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1802 (via hellovagina)
“There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons— That oppresses, like the...”
– Emily Dickinson, No. 258 (via enquotations)
Arkansas family welcomes 18th child, a girl →
The Duggar family freaks me out, yet I can’t stop watching those TLC specials on them. (It does bother me that none of the TLC specials have ever mentioned the deep involvement of this family in the Quiverfull movement…which is, you know, kind of a major part of the story).
Oh, and the oldest son, Joshua? He’s kind of hot, in a sheltered, khaki-wearing,...
Bush says 'no debate' about his keeping US safe →
I hate this shit. You cannot say “I kept America safe….except for that day when 3,000 people died. But except for that, I kept you safe!” It doesn’t work that way, douchebag.
You know what sucks? When people smoke in your non-smoking flat. What sucks even more is when they smoke in the hallway, and not in their rooms with the door closed, because they don’t want their room to get smokey. Well, no shit. It smells horrible. So don’t make everyone else suffer from your disgusting smelling habit.
And now I’m going to have a headache all day. ...
THE GRADUATE STUDENT'S TOP 10 →
(via thebrightsideoflife)
My personal favorite is 10: “Knowing you can get drunk every night for thirty-five days starting now.” (Friday, actually, for me.) That is exactly what I will be doing.
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (via thoughtsdetained)
“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via reluctantbuddha) (via kari-shma)
What the fuck happened to Jezebelover the weekend?!?
I feel as though Nick Denton and all of Gawker Media are involved in a conspiracy to destroy my life. Seriously, the new Jezebel hurts my eyes (and my heart).
“I am a fervent pro-American. You say Big Mac is a culinary disaster. I say...”
– Boris Johnson, mayor of London. I heart him.
Open Letter To The People I Live With
When one runs out of washing-up liquid for dishes, it is common knowledge that one should then go buy more.
It is not acceptable, in any way, to fill the empty container with water, shake it up, and leave it next to the sink, as if more washing-up liquid has been magically created. A container of water with half an ounce of soap in it does not adequately clean dishes, and I don’t want...
Brazilian Waxes: The Trend That Never Really... →
“A man must chose hymselfe some secret solitary place in his own house as far...”
– St. Thomas More
You know what I really don’t understand? Why people think you’re being rude when you don’t want to hang around them if they’re sick.
Because my flatmate keeps seeking out my company, even though she is practically at death’s door. And now I can actually feel myself getting sick.
So, I have to take alot of vitamin C, and then kill her. Obviously.
from the inbox of lindsey
“At 13.30, after lunch (we recommend you try one of Southend’s many fish and chip shops!), we will head off to Bluewater Retail Park. Bluewater is Europe’s largest retail park, so if you have a lot of Christmas shopping to do or simply love shopping, then you’ll love Bluewater! Shop till you drop or perhaps visit Bluewater’s multiplex cinema and return to the coach...
You know, I love my Magazines: Craft and Critique class on Wednesday nights. I really, really do. I love my professor and I love the lectures and I love my (two) classmates and I love everything about it. Throughout all Wednedays, I walk around all day like, “Yay! Class tonight! Exciting!”
And then it gets to be 4:40 pm, and class starts in 20 minutes and I just go,...
leitch:
I have decided that, when I have an extra ticket to a sporting event, I am not going to “scalp” it. I am now going to “Blago” it. I think it could catch on.
“When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream...”
– Maya Angelou
“I’m a cold girl.
I prefer a ghost in shoes to a man,
for ghosts can be...”
– Kathryn Maris, “Transference”
“I’d never been very interested in boys, either. This wasn’t because I didn’t...”
– Now I understand why I’m single; I got all of my dating advice from Mary Anne of The Babysitters Club. Damn you, Ann. M. Martin.
“A friend of mine who is completely uninformed about the subject made an observation that I, who am also completely uninformed about the subject, found quite apt: the police are extremely laissez-faire about things because they don’t want to seem… COMMUNIST. Afterall, it’s only been about 20 years since they were.”
Jess, from Jess and Josh Talk About Stuff, on...
Sometimes (Sheenagh Pugh)
Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.
A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man; decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what there were born for.
Sometimes our best efforts do not go...
When one goes to sleep at 6 am, one has strange dreams. Like last night:
I was home, for Thanksgiving. Except Little J and Eric from Gossip Girl were members of my family, and they made Thanksgiving dinner for us, and Thanksgiving dinner consisted of baked potatoes, biscuits, and no turkey. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, our neighbors, ate dinner with us. Tom Cruise was getting pissy because...
Knights Defeat USF in Front of Boisterous UCF... →
Thank you, God of Sports!
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank (via reluctantbuddha) (via present) (via kari-shma)
“I put my makeup on a Saturday night
I try and make it happen
Try to make it...”
– The ever-wise Hilary Duff
“Life is water, not stone. Life is a process. So be a person or a being who is...”
– Robin Artisson
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (via overflowing) (via kari-shma)