February 2012
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SO MUCH TREK ON MY DASH RIGHT NOW
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-notthedroidsyourelookingfor:
#THE SAME PICTURES LIKE TEN TIMES IN A ROW AND I AM L O V I N G I T
ACCURATEx
UNFOLLOW ME NOW I WILL NOT BE OFFENDEDx
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Romney is using the programs the poor depend on...
Cutting subsidies from Amtrak and Planned Parenthood is the equivalent of President Obama promising to close loopholes for corporate jet owners. It’s red meat for the base, but a rounding error in context of the budget.
Romney’s real savings come in the next section. He’ll “send Medicaid back to the states and cap that program’s rate of growth,” and then “do the same for other programs, like...
Why I Will Never Believe in the Fallacy of...
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Oslo, Norway. The dystopian capital of evil government coercion.
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic created by the United Nations Development Programme that measures a country’s standard of living. It takes into account life expectancy, education, adult literacy, years of schooling, and income. Based on these figures, lists can be created that rank...
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On equality, universal healthcare and government...
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I am a twentysomething year old female with a Bachelor’s Degree. I am pursuing my Master’s Degree. I come from an upper-middle class household. I am biracial, spiritual but not religious, outspoken, and saucy. I live in an apartment with one other person, a man I have known for the better part of a decade. I have health insurance. I am comfortable. I am, in many ways, privileged....
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A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
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One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech, but we do draw some limits. As a company, we’ve decided that some specific kinds of content...
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via musingsinfemininity)
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“When the woman answered the door, she looked at my daughter and said, ‘We don’t...”
– Girl Scout troop leader Kim Douglas • Discussing a recent situation her 10-year-old daughter faced when going door-to-door to sell cookies. Douglas’ daughter, by the way, didn’t know what abortion was. “It left my daughter very shocked, confused,” Douglas said. “She said, ‘Mommy, something creepy...
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How exercise fuels the brain
runslikeapenguin:
The New York Times has a really cool article today called “How exercise fuels the brain.” I highly recommend you read the full thing yourself, but here are a few excerpts with random bolded phrases:
For many years, scientists had believed that the brain, which is a very hungry organ, subsisted only on glucose, or blood sugar, which it absorbed from the passing bloodstream....
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What pro-choice advocates learned from the...
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Many saw 2011 as a perfect storm for a wave of abortion restrictions to sweep through the states. A heated battle during health reform over federal funding of abortion raised the issue nationally. When Republicans gained control of many more state houses in 2010, they were ready to act. States passed 92 abortion restrictions in 2011, more than double any other year in the past three...
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vinegarseas asked: I was gonna put a picture of poop in your submit but then I image searched poop and now I hate myself. Why do so many people take pictures of poop?
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