"She sang beyond the genius of the sea"

pushinghoopswithsticks:

I wrote about: “Men who pride themselves on their sophistication keep swooning over body types that blur the line between childlike and child.”

This has been bothering me for some time now, but I could never have dreamed of saying it better than Ayesha did.

howtotalktogirlsatparties:

Meet Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins aka Unlocking The Truth, sixth-grade metalheads from Flatbush, Brooklyn.

These kids are the greatest.

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howtotalktogirlsatparties:

Lord Disick for Yeezus.

howtotalktogirlsatparties:

Lord Disick for Yeezus.

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heroicallyfound:

i don’t know what show this is from but i bet i’d like it

heroicallyfound:

i don’t know what show this is from but i bet i’d like it

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"So the most terrifying supervillain on the world stage has been brought to his knees by term limits? That means he technically had less power than Michael Bloomberg!"

— The Daily Show’s JOHN OLIVER, snarking on term-limited Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Bloomberg famously engineered a third term as Mayor despite New York City laws limiting the mayoralty to two terms. (via inothernews)

It’s been a long, hard salty summer. I’ve felt my face wither from the wind and the tide. I don’t know what will become of me. All I know is that for us Sea Hags, it’s only going to get longer and harder…and saltier.

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"It’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead.

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school."

— Edward Snowden: Being Called ‘Traitor’ By Dick Cheney Is ‘Highest Honor’ You Can Receive (via mediaite)

"Across the country, schools are getting out for the summer. And while most students will leave their classrooms happy for the break, some parents will be fretting about how to feed their children without meals provided through schools."

— When school’s out for summer, many kids are at risk of going hungry - In Plain Sight (via robot-heart-politics)

nbcnews:

B for busted: Students changed grades by tampering with professors’ keyboards

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After four years of altering grades using credentials gained with keylogger equipment installed on professors’ keyboards, three Purdue University students were finally busted when one of those professors complained that one of his passwords mysteriously changed.

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nprfreshair:

If you haven’t read it yet, we highly recommend that you check out Patton Oswalt’s awesome essay about plagiarism in comedy, heckling, rape jokes, and the limitations of individual perception. It is brave and honest and oh-so-very-very-smart. Here’s a sampling from the section in which he grapples with the latest Internet controversy over a comedian’s rape joke:

In this past week of re-reading the blogs, going through the comment threads, and re-scrolling the Twitter arguments, I haven’t once found a single statement, feminist or otherwise, saying that rape shouldn’t be joked under any circumstance, regardless of context. Not one example of this.

In fact, every viewpoint I’ve read on this, especially from feminists, is simply asking to kick upward, to think twice about who is the target of the punchline, and make sure it isn’t the victim.

And now you can go listen to an interview with Oswalt here.

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This is one of the best posts/essays I’ve read. Please read when you get a chance.

A friend of mine is in Kuwait right now presenting at a World Bank/IMF conference.

She gets to travel (well) all the time for her job and studied at the Sorbonne and London School of Economics.

I’m pretty much in awe of her resume.