February 2011
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Illinois Signs Civil Unions Law
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Get ready for an influx of save-the-dates from Illinois! The state’s governor, Pat Quinn, signed “historic” legislation on Wednesday allowing civil unions for both gay and straight couples. The bill is considered a hard-won victory for gay and lesbian couples, since it will give gay couples many of the same rights as married couples—although it does not...
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January 2011
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The Fix - RNC is $23 million in debt →
iwasjustsayin:
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evangotlib:
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The Republican National Committee has about $23 million in debt as it prepares for the 2012 election cycle, new Chairman Reince Priebus announced Monday.
They can’t run anything right…whether a country or their own internal organizations.
Maybe they should cut expenditures?
The Party of Fiscal Conservatism shows its true colors....
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SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK
therealestsocksinthegame:
HATING IT
ME TOO! I HAVE DRUNK SO MUCH GREEN TEA! IT HAS MADE ME LOOPY!
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Take a survey, help influence a new artists... →
clio-jlh:
hydeordie:
This one is NY-centric.
Hey, I’m pretty sure some of my NYC artist friends are reading this tumblr. Look! Survey!
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Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: The Proposed... →
lazybookreviews:
I do not care why you want an abortion. You want an abortion? That’s good enough for me.
I am so happy to have my tax dollars pay for it. I would rather help a struggling young woman pay for an abortion than a) more unnecessary construction near my house, b) more subsidies for the corn and soybean industry, c) more studies on whether this abstinence thing is going to kick...
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Broadway World: Reeve Carney and band to open for... →
Carney, the band that plays onstage for SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark and whose lead singer, Reeve Carney, is the show’s star, will open for U2 this summer.
As per the band’s website, “Carney will be joining U2 for the last date of their epic 360° Tour alongside Arcade Fire at Magnetic Hill in Moncton, New Brunswick on July 30th 2011”
I suppose they can take a...
Breast-Feeding Debate Closed? Brain Science Weighs... →
If America knew what breast milk can do for the brains of it youngest citizens, lactating mothers across the nation would be enshrined, not embarrassed. Though the topic is much debated, there’s little controversy about it in the scientific community.
Breast milk is the nutritional equivalent of a magic bullet for a developing baby. It has important salts and even more important vitamins. Its...
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yes means yes: Forced Birthers Try To Narrow... →
(1) this rolls back 40 years of legal reform. In the dark ages, rape excluded spouses and required, in many states, “utmost resistance.” State laws have moved on. Now, rape or sexual assault is defined, in varying degrees in different states, but usually includes intercourse with minors, sometimes includes penetration of a woman unconscious or very incapacitated, mostly includes penetration...
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Mubarak’s Last Breath →
Egypt has never been a democracy. The military has always dominated its political life. Even during the age of liberal nationalism after the First World War, when it had a lively parliamentary life, popular sovereignty was sharply curtailed by British power. Since the 1952 coup which brought Nasser to power, it has been ruled by military dictatorship, although the establishment of multi-party...
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You know what made me laugh today? That there's a... →
I know it’s goofy of me, but names like that always make me smile. And they’re almost ALWAYS British.
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“We support the universal rights of the Egyptian people including the rights to...”
– Hillary Clinton (via soupsoup)
‘Atta girl.
(via villagevoice)
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Rahm back on ballot, court rules →
looseteef:
downlo:
The challenges to his candidacy make me think he is not going to sweep triumphantly into office as smoothly as many have predicted.
I read this as Rahm back into ballet, court rules.
WE CAN ONLY HOPE!
(his l’apres midi d’une faune would be to die.)
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Artistic Choices: What's Happening in Egypt... →
promotingpeace:
The basics: Egypt is a large, mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country. At around 80 million people, it has the largest population in the Middle East and the third-largest in Africa. Most of Egypt is in North Africa, although the part of the country that borders Israel, the Sinai peninsula, is in Asia. Its other neighbors are Sudan (to the South), Libya (to the West), and Saudi Arabia...
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Study: Family History Of Alcoholism Raises Risk Of... →
CHICAGO—According to an alarming new study released Monday by the University of Chicago, children raised in households where alcoholism is present are at a significantly greater risk of writing and performing a one-man show than those who grow up in a more stable environment.
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A guide to houses no gentleman would dare to... →
Fabulous article about a 19th-century Zagat’s guide to New York City’s brothel scene.
Readers of the book, “The Gentleman’s Directory,” learned that “an hour cannot be spent more pleasantly” than at Harry Hill’s place on 25 East Houston Street. And they learned that Ada Blashfield of 55 West Houston Street had “8 to 10 boarders both blondes and brunettes,” playing host to “some of...
ohhellocolin replied to your post: Boss scheduled early meeting. Left for work even…
CUNY actually closed! I was taken aback to have a snow day. So much so I went back to bed. How is it in the city? Out here it’s not too, too bad.
I live and work on the stretch of the A that is usually unaffected by snow, and don’t have to walk much at either end, so it’s rarely bad for me....
Boss scheduled early meeting. Left for work even earlier to allow for delays.
Boss isn’t here.
I’ll just be over here, twiddling my thumbs.
I mean, is it really so terrible that we have...
msavignon:
That the U.S. government recognizes the need to support the arts and humanities?
National Endowment for the Humanities, Recent Awards
National Endowment for the Arts, Recent Grants
The budget for the NEH is $167.5 million dollars (2010), and the NEA requested $161.3 million dollars for 2010. I’m wondering if conservative-types realize that federal funding for the arts doesn’t mean...
“Really? This is why you don’t get to read my novel until it’s published. Every...”
– SOME PEOPLE JUST DO NOT APPRECIATE MY FREE EDITORAL ADVICE. (via seventeen76)
She really does think every story would benefit from FBI agents who had been in foster care.
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msavignon:
damekatharsis:
Republicans Try to Abolish Arts Groups - NYTimes.com
fridaphile:
I rarely mention this at all-but my grandfather was a Congressman and fought every year to keep the NEA and NEH alive. I’m afraid that without an advocate the GOP will be all too happy to abolish these institutions. And I’m not too entirely sure the Democrats give a shit.
I’m so fucking tired of...
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Because if you're talking to Condie or Hillary,... →
At the link, find excerpts from an interview with Condoleeza Rice and one with Hilary Clinton. Condie gets asked if she still wants a fairytale wedding, and Hillary about the state of her daughter’s womb. And then vomit.
Take a moment to consider this. We live in a world where it’s okay to badger brilliant and accomplished human beings—who presumably have many, many fascinating...
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GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data →
The House Republicans’ first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.
I’m sure they’ll allow the ISPs to pay for this with yet another unspecified fee assessed on our phone lines or whatever. In addition to the massive invasion of privacy.
seventeen76:
the vp will cut a bitch.
Nobody puts Barack in a corner.
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jonathanbogart:
mootpoint:
I am already bored of the Oscar Nominations, so I’m armchair casting for the James Mason role in the Beyoncé Star Is Born. (I’m not letting the fact that Clint Eastwood is attached to direct get me down because this prospect is so exciting to me. He’s done music movies before, and no one in Hollywood really makes musicals anymore - except Adam Shankman and Rob...
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“Robert L. Lynch, president of Americans for the Arts, a lobbying group, said in...”
– Arts, Briefly: Republicans Try to Abolish Arts Groups
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Anonymous asked: Are you and Amanda girlfriends or for real roommates?
seventeen76-deactivated20110416 asked: i bet your hair smalls good.