“Turn on the television. We have a wedding channel on cable TV devoted to the behavior of people on the way to the altar. They spend billions of dollars, behave in the most appalling way, all in an effort to be princess for a day. You don’t have cable television? Put on network TV. We’re giving away husbands on a game show. You can watch The Bachelor, where thirty desperate women will compete to marry a 40-year-old man who has never been able to maintain a decent relationship in his life. That’s what we’ve done to marriage in America, where young women are socialized from the time they’re five years old to think of being nothing but a bride. They plan every day what they’ll wear, how they’ll look, the invitations, the whole bit, they don’t spend five minutes thinking about what it means to be a wife. People stand up there before god and man even in Senator Diaz’s church, they swear to love honor and obey, they don’t mean a word of it. So if there’s anything wrong with the sanctity of marriage in America, it comes from those of us who have the privilege and the right and have abused it for decades.”
—Diane Savino, NY State Senator (via gayformarriage) (via fuckyeahlgbt) (via darkmovesoflove) (via chaichangechaos) (via reenamonster) (via naomiwaxman)
June 2010
17 posts
“Even scarier is why people have stopped thinking global warming is real. One major reason pollsters say is we had a very cold, snowy winter. Which is like saying the sun might not be real because last night it got dark. And my car’s not real because I can’t find my keys. That’s the problem with our obsession with always seeing two sides of every issue equally — especially when one side has a lot of money. It means we have to pretend there are always two truths, and the side that doesn’t know anything has something to say. On this side of the debate: Every scientist in the world. On the other: Mr. Potato Head. There is no debate here — just scientists vs. non-scientists, and since the topic is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote. We shouldn’t decide everything by polling the masses. Just because most people believe something doesn’t make it true. This is the fallacy called argumentum ad numeram: the idea that something is true because great numbers believe it. As in: Eat shit, 20 trillion flies can’t be wrong.”
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Bill Maher (via azspot) (via fuddmain) (via pete3) (via moorewr) (via conorh)
I love Bill Maher!
The Mann Landers Column: Job Hunters and Cougars →
mannlanders.com
Dear Mann Landers,
I would like to know what a man looks for in a mate and what scares a man off. I ask this because I am currently single, and have been for a number of years, but I believe I am a great catch. On more than one occasion by a number of men, I have been told that I am…
Like I've always said...
gotta love oprah.
“I think if you live long enough you understand really clearly that none of us are defined by our mistakes. You are defined by - if you get the lesson from the mistake…and if you can move on & move forward. Once you *get* the lesson, you don’t have to repeat that one anymore. But if you don’t get the lesson it shows up again and again and again.” -Oprah
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Cows
On my late night drive home from a friend’s I happened to catch glimpse of an eerie light in the distance. As I approached the one light turned to four and soon my headlights were illuminating, not just the reflective eyes but the whole of, two cows walking along the side of the road.
I don’t know where these cows were headed on their midnight stroll, nor where they came from (we’re rural, but not that rural).
But I do know that they were the freakiest cows I’ve ever seen.
“A petroleum engineer who’s worked in the oil industry tells me BP is doing the minimum to clean up the oil and everything it can to protect its bottom line. According to the engineer, here’s what BP should be doing right now to mitigate the damage. If the President were to put BP into temporary receivership, he’d have the power to get BP to…”
—Robert Reich (Closing the Hole in the Gulf: A Petroleum Engineer Responds) (via mikehudack) (via dubliner)
Circles of Hell
The circle of Hell that Dante conveniently forgot to mention: the one where you leave something on a plane and then spend hour after hour listening to awful elevator music while on hold to god-knows-who in an attempt to retrieve said item.
May 2010
55 posts
Freaky Illusions →
richardgregory.org
Using a Charlie Chaplin mask, Dr. Richard Gregory shows that the brain refuses, no matter what the external cues are telling it, to see a face as hollow.
This video is freaky… even when I told myself to see it as hollow, it didn’t work.
Holy shit!
My brother is getting married… when did we become adults?
