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nudityandnerdery:

Somebody made this! I was hoping it would happen, as soon as I saw the previous version. High fives to that person.

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vicemag:

People are understandably upset after video emerged of what appears to be U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses. If they’re surprised, however, they need to pick up a history book. Soldiers piss on corpses in every war. On both sides. Soldiers rape civilians, as a rule, in every war that has ever taken place since time immemorial. Rape is a weapon of war. Piss, some people are now learning, is a weapon of war. Some fucked-up, disgusting combination of the two, plus shit and dismemberment, is a weapon of war. Bad guys do it. “Good” guys do it. When a country’s government decides to wage war, they are deciding to sanction piss, rape, and the torture and murder of women and children who had the colossally bad fortune to be in the midst of the war. When the U.S. decided to enter into Afghanistan and then Iraq, they (i.e. Congress and the president, and the myriad companies that profit from war) knew this. I’m not singling out the U.S. here; while we’re as good at implementing the more horrific, soul-erasing weapons as anyone, we’re not alone. Does your country have a military? In times of war, they kill people, and sometimes they piss on them.

If it isn’t clear why I’m detailing this, it is because I want to express an old thought: war is the very worst thing there is. And if you command an army, you better the fuck understand, in your probably cowardly, definitely privileged, likely draft-dodging bones, that when you send soldiers out to fight and die, they are going to do some unconscionable, irreversible things. And they are doing it in your name. Because you told them to.  And pissing on a corpse is a FUCKING POEM compared to issuing an order for beautiful young people to go and kill other beautiful young people in a land far away, because you, in essence, “felt like it.”

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Best Christmas card of 2011.

mightyhunter:

culturalsavage:

johnthelutheran:

A reminder that Lego used to understand that they already have a “girls’ range”.

As previously posted last year.

This. Why don’t we have advertisements like this any more? Girls don’t need toys that have hair brushes, mirrors, and pink. Girls (and boys) need to be able to explore and express themselves, not be told that boys like sports and girls like hair school.

If I ever have a child, and he wants an Easy-Bake Oven, or she wants a Birdhouse Tony Hawk Firecracker Skatedeck with Grind King trucks, I will make it happen.

Damn right.

liquiddiamonds:

frageelay:

nicky36:

If you are reading this, then I’m sure you know Elizabeth and Daniel.

In the time that I have known them they have both gone through a lot, both separately and together. They are both amazing people with big hearts and complicated lives who work hard to be good parents and good partners. 

And now they get to be good partners to each other and good parents together. 

In celebration of this awesome internet arrival, and in conjunction with Elizabeth’s family in friends in Kansas, who are having a shower for Elizabeth on January 8th, I’d like to invite you to join me in being part of an “internet” baby shower!

Elizabeth and Daniel have chosen to go to a local midwife for care. A ChipIn has been set up to help offset the cost of that care.

If you have been following along with Elizabeth and Daniel and were wondering how you could show them your love and support, please consider helping them with a donation toward the gift of great medical care!

Please feel free to reblog as much as you would like!

I love this idea, I love Elizabeth and Daniel, and I am as excited to spread the word as I am to shower their baby-to-be with love!

Elizabeth and Daniel are good peeps. Happy to share the love.

Word.

ronbailey:

thunderdolt:

mattmeetstheinternet:

Simple, right?

Trillions for our national budget are too complicated: Hard to rationalize. And the 38 1/2 billion in cuts sounds like a lot. But removing 8 zeros makes it rational. And the cuts some are proud of are fucking irrational!

Pardon me, but this is bullshit.  If you want to compare the United States Federal Government to a family, then you damn well better mention that the family would several hundred trillion dollars in its savings account. And mention the fact that the family is such a huge part of the world economy that it is effectively borrowing money at a negative interest rate on 15 year loans.

I’ve pointed it out a hundred times - people who talking about the national debt are doing so because it sounds scary to people who don’t understand all the details. It’s a cheap and easy way to score political points. 

And even if it actually was a big deal? Worrying about it when you are faced with 9% unemployment and millions of families who can’t afford to pay their mortgage is just asinine.

mattmeetstheinternet:

Simple, right?

No. Not really. A family can’t borrow money at close to 0% interest, and print money (if necessary) to repay it. 

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