March 2012
94 posts
Disneyland is at capacity right now.
Ugh. This going to be one hell of a night.
February 2012
55 posts
Anonymous asked: u sooo uglyyy
Panel approves measure forcing non-athletes,... →
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
From MSNBC:
“Students at Arizona’s three state universities will have to pay — or borrow — at least $2,000 a year to get an education under terms of legislation approved by a House panel today.
Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said students should have some “skin in the game.” He said students will take their schooling more seriously and be less likely to drop...
Gay Texas judge, Tonya Parker, won’t perform... →
anticapitalist:
An openly gay Texas judge says she refuses to conduct marriage ceremonies for straight couples until same-sex couples can also wed.
Dallas County Judge Tonya Parker explained her decision Tuesday at a monthly meeting for the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas.
“I do not perform them because it is not an equal application of the law. Period,” she said, according to the Dallas Voice,...
Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional by...
abaldwin360:
Los Angeles Times - A judge on Wednesday declared the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and ordered the federal government to ignore the statute and provide health benefits to the wife of a lesbian federal court employee.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White was the first since the Obama administration announced a year ago that it would no longer defend a...
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I baked my first cake!
'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
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The other day at Olive Garden...
The waitress wanted to see if we wanted to split our checks.
Me: No, I don't want to be a hassle.
Cynthia: If you didn't want to be a hassle, you shouldn't have been born!
Everyone else: OOOOOOO
Me: *cries*
Me: *eats*
Me: *cries*
Me: *laughs*
Me: *cries*
Me: *eat some more*
“The Virginia Legislature has passed this law that allows — or mandates — that a...”
– BILL MAHER, remarking on Virginia’s personhood bullshit, on Real Time (via inothernews)
Arizona Republican Introduces Bill That Would Make...
nonplussedbyreligion:
Five GOP Senators in Arizona have introduced a bill in Arizona that would make the lives of teachers and professors a living hell inside and outside of school. Senator Al Melvin, Senator Andy Biggs, Senator Don Shooter, Senator Lori Klein, and Senator Steve Smith are the sponsors of SB 1467, which would prohibit teachers from engaging in “speech or conduct that would...
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I went to my professor's office hours today for...
It turns out they aren’t vampires that grade papers using the blood of their students.
Go figure.
(I’m just kidding. She was really nice and it helped a lot)
I got to examine 100,000 year old ice cores in my...
I got really giddy and excited!!
(Is it weird to get excited over frozen water?)
4 quarters left and only 11 classes to fill it...
Hmm…
I’ve added another possible minor to my list: Education.
That would put me at 18 more classes…
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via whomadewho)
New Tumblr Goal #1
I will try to stop reblogging posts.
(Unless there REALLY is a dire need to.)
This.
Teacher: A long time ago people thought there were only four elements. Can anyone guess what they were?
Me: Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.
Teacher:
Me:
teacher: what?
Me: what?
Who the hell is moving furniture at 3:30 in the...
STOP IT!
I need coffee.
Goddamn this midterm week….
Apparently, in my notes, I wrote that vegetarians...
Now, I can’t trust any of my notes…
“Temmie Breslauer says she was arrested on January 12 in a subway station for...”
– In NYPD Custody, Trans People Get Chained to Fences and Poles (via pantslessprogressive)