by the way...

"If you happen to feel at your personal best and most attractive when you are at your most minimally..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:21:51 -0400

““If you happen to feel at your personal best and most attractive when you are at your most minimally altered, good for you. But it is never anyone’s job to tell a woman concealing her blemishes, or putting on a pair of Spanx, or styling her hair, that she is somehow less real. The only thing we should be shaming, when it comes to what women do, is our weird cultural need to maintain control over other women’s bodies.””

- Thought Catalog: The Only Real Women Are ‘Natural’ Women (via cinnamon-spiked-blues)

by Donald Pickel

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:48:01 -0400

yobaba:

I pledge allegiance to the NRA
and all of corporate America.
And to the mighty dollar, for which it stands,
one nation, under guns, where people are invisible,
with no liberty, no justice, at all…

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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:49:48 -0500

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat..."

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:27:52 -0500

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

- John Steinbeck (via landsalmon)

“‎I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:37:17 -0500

“‎I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.”
Sister Joan Chittister, Catholic Nun

THE. BEST.

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Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:55:24 -0500

oldest-man-on: nightlocke-d: bestnatesmithever: I just...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:31:50 -0500

oldest-man-on:

nightlocke-d:

bestnatesmithever:

I just thought of something. If Jesus was born today…in Bethlehem, how accepting would Americans be of him? A 32-year-old man from Palestine who speaks Hebrew and tells you to give all your money to the poor?

Burn

^This

"Here’s something you may not realize: Gun ownership has been declining for decades. According to the..."

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:20:48 -0500

“Here’s something you may not realize: Gun ownership has been declining for decades. According to the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, in 1977, 54% of American households had guns. By 2010, the number had fallen to 32%. Yet gun sales are at record highs. That means that existing gun owners are buying more and more guns. It’s not enough to have a hunting rifle over your mantle; you need an entire arsenal, just in case the government falls, society disintegrates, and you have to protect your cave — sorry, your home — from the marauding hordes.

That’s exactly what the gun manufacturers want you to think, so you keep buying. They know that hunting will never again be the pastime it once was, and as more Americans move from rural areas to the suburbs and cities, their natural market withers.

That “responsible gun owner” politicians talk about, the one who reverentially passes down to his son the bolt-action rifle his father gave him? That guy isn’t good for business. The manufacturers need the other guy, the one who fears he may not be all the man he could be.”

- Paul Waldman, discussing masculinity and gun ownership in his piece, “Not man enough? Buy a gun.” (via cognitivedissonance)

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Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:58:28 -0500

STFU, Conservatives: Do you ever have days where you just lose all hope that there’ll ever...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:37:47 -0400

STFU, Conservatives: Do you ever have days where you just lose all hope that there’ll ever...:

stfuconservatives:

Do you ever have days where you just lose all hope that there’ll ever be any kind of equality in the world. because there are just too many people who seem to have a mission to make everyone else somehow worse off than themselves, with the only justification being that they’re different? - …

The dull ache

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:51:18 -0400

sincesheleft:

you feel when she’s gone (not forever, but gone nonetheless) reminds you that you are still alive. It’s like a beacon, to guide you to her, or for her to find you.

This bed is emptiest in the morning with out you.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:23:32 -0400

sincesheleft:

It’s empty at night, too, but at night I lay down with all of the problems of the day in bed, in my head with me. When I awake, it’s just me, alone with my thoughts of you.

The bed is empty in the morning, I feel so empty in the morning.

latenightthoughts

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:58:16 -0400

I’ve got some issues in my head, and i knew we should’ve started fixing them back when she left you. I’m not trying to get you down, I know you’re different now… but your little girl just wants you to listen now. I’m over twenty, can’t maintain relations, all these people wanna hurt me and I just don’t have the patience. I can’t trust them & they’re not much help… when they start to push and pull the buttons I don’t trust myself.

What pride, fists, and words just might do? I’m afraid of my fate, don’t wanna turn out like you.

this truly breaks my heart

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:48:42 -0400

this truly breaks my heart:

10knotes:

I pledge to read the printed word

Whiskey gives me nightmares.

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:08:00 -0500

No, really. Whiskey gives me nightmares.

I’m talking the kind of nightmares where you’re fighting with your boyfriend about real-life things and when you wake up you have to think really, really hard about your night to determine if you were dreaming, or if you finally bitched about all those little things that have been bugging you lately, like how he always takes the best pillow. I’m talking about the kind of nightmares where you’re at a strangers house looking for water and you drink liquid clothes soap instead.

Maybe that’s why I don’t drink whiskey. It’s the kind of drunk where I’m confused about my level of drunkenness. The kind of drunk where I don’t feel drunk but I probably (okay, most likely), am. The kind of drunk where after pounding 4 glasses I want to pop open a bottle of eight dollar and fifty fucking cent champaigne and eat a shit load of hummus or something stupid like that.

Or maybe I don’t drink whiskey because its disgusting and it makes my head hurt in the morning. Who knows.