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“I’m glad that you played the Rachel Maddow clip because I think she is the best...”
– A Fox pundit, acting like a first grader. Take a guess, did anyone at the Conservative Political Action Conference condemn the comment? (via think-progress)
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Tales From the Kitchen Table →
The issue of covering contraceptives in health care plans has Catholic bishops in an uproar. Let’s try to talk through this in a calm, measured manner. Fantastic op-ed by Gail Collins. 
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Did you know that the FDA ensures that generic...
My organic chemistry professor went into this big tirade about that years ago. What crooks! 
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Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change...
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Anderson Cooper with Syrian Activist Zaidoun on... →
mohandasgandhi: musafeer: thearabspringrevolutions: The man starts crying claiming, “It’s too much.” This is so horrible. This is so absolutely horrible. Oh my God.  This is really heartbreaking. Hearing the anguish in Zaidoun’s voice is… beyond words.
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“That every year I have cried, “At length My darling understands it all,...”
– WB Yeats
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A Visit from the Goon Squad is seriously one of...
I’m about halfway through, and I’m flabbergasted by Jennifer Egan’s downright musical ability to create this world, full of interconnected characters who aren’t prose - they’re flesh. I can’t wait to finish it. For right now, I’m in awe. 
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“The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with...”
– Elizabeth Bishop
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Block it out. Block it out. Block it out.
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This weather fits my mood.
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“I creep back into my heteronormative shell in front of my parents. The return to...”
– On being South Asian, queer and trying to come out - A guest post on Rabayl Memon’s blog by “Chatkhara.” (via mehreenkasana)
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“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)
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WatchWatch
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus: Maddow on contraception battle. This seriously makes me want to stand on my desk and raise my fist in solidarity. [NB: more than just people who identify as ‘women’ need/want access to contraception and abortion]
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Confessions: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
ch-ch-ch-cherrybomb: I have said “I love you” and not meant it to multiple persons. I often struggle with the idea of matrimony, let alone monogamy. I’m singing Avril Lavigne at the top of my lungs while I write this. I guess this is a “thing” now. YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME. 
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Wallace Stevens makes my soul soar.
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“We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or...”
– “Sunday Morning”
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Judge Stephen Reinhardt, in a federal appellate court’s majority opinion overturning the notorious California anti-gay marriage law. (via motherjones)
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“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its...”
– Roald Dahl  (via emotional-algebra)
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Private First Class Bradley Manning Nominated For... →
everyflavour: badass.
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“Joel: What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that...”
– Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via lilmissmagick)
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