February 2011
125 posts
January 2011
237 posts
libraryland:
lineone:
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.”
The Road - Cormac McCarthy.
Such a beautiful, heartbreakingly bleak book.
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Celebrate Adam turning 29 on the 29th!...
http://www.mycharitywater.org/p/campaign?campaign_id=12617
Gefallener Engel: Constitutional Court of Chile... →
gefallenerengel:
First things today welcomed processing and declared it admissible on the grounds that the constitutional inapplicability of Article 102 of the Civil Code, which allows only heterosexual marriage, he “finds reasonable grounds.” Movilh welcomed this new development. In an unprecedented…
This subject is worthy of much more articulation,...
The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the...
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via amiquote)
Why secondhand bookstores (and libraries!) smell...
mcnallyjackson:
powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a...
“We have people who think you should throw battery acid in the faces of little...”
– Sam Harris
This quote goes out to all the people who say “No need to hate, let people believe what they want, lashing out only makes you look insecure.”
(via sixtyforty)
mmmfelicious:
Oh My Ra - Adam Lambert
Never...
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Mother Jailed For Sending Her Children to the... →
Anonymous asked: http://papercut-.tumblr.com/post/2913829746/who-is-your-best-friend-random-questions
7 Tips for How to Respond to Victim Blaming and... →
homotronic:
trastorn:omnivory:
Via genderviolence:
When someone says something which helps support an anti-rape culture, thank them and praise them to others.
When someone says, “Boys will be boys,” when they learn a boy has been accused of rape ask them, “Do you really believe all boys are rapists?”
When someone says, “The only way to prevent sexual violence is to teach girls and...
