The sound bite from Cardinal Timothy Dolan on NPR just made it sound like he wishes catholic hospitals could reject patients who dont have baptism certificates…?! Wtf.
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I think that some people, now that Amendment 1 has passed in NC, think that “alternative lifestyles” are going to go away since marriage has been so clearly defined as between one man and one woman.
I’ve got news for you:
Banning gay marriage is not going to stop “gayness” just like banning abortions is not going stop them from happening.What its going to do is make the people involved less safe, by either denying them legal protection of their rights/money/family under the law or by denying them the cleanliness and professionalism of a legal medical procedure.
You may think, “oooh comparing marriage equality to abortions seems a little icky.” But that just means you think one of those things is icky. Both are services that all people should have access to if they need them, and are also none of your fucking business.
I’m sorry to all the LGBT people I know and love in North Carolina, I know how hard you’ve been fighting. I am ashamed of my beautiful home state, and I am annoyed with myself for switching my voter registration to NY.
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Went to go see Knuckleball! yesterday. And stood near RA Dickey for a while. He was excellent, as was the film.
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Maybe in lieu of birthday presents I can just set up a fund in my paypal account so I can fucking do something exciting this summer? Would anyone want to chip in? ….If for no other reason than to get me to shut the fuck up about this?
Um, maybe I could frame it as some kind of photography project and set up a kickstarter fund? IDK. But you know fucking well that I’d be taking my camera with me…
I would donate to your kickstarter, because I have also dreamed of starting one just on the basis of “I need some money so I can do a fun thing, for once.”
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Alright, I joined Pottermore
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HUFFLEPUFF! Y’all can hate on Hufflepuff all you want, but I am PROUD!
So far, and I’ve just gotten as far as being sorted, it seems pretty dull. Gotta tell you, Club Penguin is way more fun. Gonna kick around some, seems like the potions and duels and stuff could be more engaging.
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My diagram from last night of the floorplan for the local mall when i was growing up. Amazing how few chain stores there were.
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My Dad is in Tierra del Fuego this week. I am jealous. He’s supposed to be looking out for penguins.
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My baby! It’s gonna be a good day.
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MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA
BOBBLE-HEADED BIRDS
RABBITS MATING WITH RATS
TINY HERBIVOROUS BEARS
PLUSH TOYS MAGICALLY COME TO LIFE
LIZARDS-
WHAT THE FUCK
WALKING FEATHER DUSTERS
THE FUCK IS THIS IDEK BUT IT DESERVES A HUG
THE MOST FABULOUS BIRDS SINCE FLAMINGOS
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THING IT’S LIKE A DOG BRED WITH A MEERKAT
WELL IT’S PRETTY CUTE I G- JESUSFUCK
AND MORE LIZARDS
FUCK MAN EVERYWHERE HAS LIZARDS WHAT’S THE BIG D- WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK
AND WHATEVER THIS THING IS WILL FUCK UP A HONEY BADGER
WHAT YOU THINK CUZ IT’S LIKE 80% DESERT HERE WE DON’T GOT PENGUINS FUCK YOU WE GOT PENGUINS IN SWEATERS
HEY I THINK YOU SAW THIS ONE IN A MUSEUM ONCE
ALSO HEY ENJOY OUR BEAUTIFUL BEACHES ALSO THIS FUCKER
AND THIS GUY
AND THIS GUY WANTS TO KILL YOU TOO
AND HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THIS THING
JESUS CHRIST THEY COME IN POCKET VERSIONS
BACK TO THINGS THAT WANT YOU DEAD
WEREN’T EXPECTING THAT WERE YOU.
SO YEAH, COME VISIT AUSTRALIA.
WE’RE ALL FUCKING WAITING WITH OUR WEIRD SHIT.
P.S.
omg
always reblog.
penguins in fucking sweaters
I’m almost positive the penguins in sweaters were actually in New Zealand. Which is not Australia.
That one just above the penguins in sweaters (which are very cute) is a Tasmanian-fucking-Devil. C’mon, now.
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Jesus drove a Honda but didn’t talk about it. “For I did not speak of my own accord” - John 12:49
Yesss. Last night, the bf and I decided that if we ever won the lotto we would just buy hundreds and hundreds of used hondas. You know, for fun.
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There is a Yo Gabba Gabba themed episode of Cupcake Wars premering tomorrow at 8! How do these people continue to find my weaknesses?
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"When women write in the first person their work is often called “confessional.” And there’s an accepted template for female narratives that tends to be the only story you read in bestselling books and first-person essays in women’s magazines that goes like: “I was bad – [sordid description of bad behavior] – but then [love, my baby, my husband, AA, etc] saved me. I solved my problem. I am no longer bad.” I have nothing against redemption per se but I am really bored with that story. That story doesn’t reflect anything about what women’s or human beings’ lives are really like. I have always gravitated to books that resist the commercial impulse to make life conform to formulaic narrative conventions. This is how books are marketed, understandably, because it’s an easy story to sum up, and you can also sell it to the reader as instructive: this is how you, too, can get better and start living your best life ™! But I prefer to read books like, say, Glory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter, where the narrator goes to rehab, gets clean, and then the book is only half over and she still has to figure out life and it’s genuine and very complicated."(via emilygould)
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A Book Review—by me!
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health
by Judith Walzer Leavitt
This book, though written in a plain, almost bullet-pointed essay format, was a really interesting study of how we treat people with infectious diseases and the various perspectives on the case of Mary Mallon, the first identified healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the United States and how her life and agency were at the time, and have been since, continually overshadowed by the media persona of Typhoid Mary.
Beyond being an informative history of Mary Mallon and the NYC public health system at the turn of the 20th century, a major theme that Leavitt returns to again and again is the tendency of our histories to take agency away from persons and groups who are stigmatized, and how important it is, in trying to recall and learn from history, to remember that all parties, winners, losers, and everyone in between all have equal amounts of human agency, and are all at least partially responsible for their actions, reactions and place within the historical narrative.
Typhoid Mary was a figurehead, but Mary Mallon was a real person to whom these events happened. She was an independent person with a voice and opinions and a developing understanding of the science and politics of what was happening to her. And that applies today, in all circumstances. All people are people, and have functioning brains that lead them to at least attempt to make free-will-based decisions about their lives, even if it looks from the outside that they are being manipulated, taken advantage of, or brainwashed.
The book was first published in 1995, and spends its final chapters relating the complex tragedy of Mary Mallon’s lifelong isolation to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that was then peaking in the Western world. Leavitt emphasizes the importance of realizing that advances in medical understanding are not, and cannot be immediately accepted by the entire population, and as a result difficulties WILL occur in attempting to educate and regulate people with “new” kinds of diseases (Mary Mallon as healthy carrier in 1907, and HIV positive people in the 80s-90s). She does not propose any cut-and-dry solutions to the public health problems that HIV/AIDS raises or those that continue to linger from the time of Typhoid Mary, but rather takes a larger perspective, reminding the reader that all individuals, sick and healthy, come from different situations and histories, and their personal agency must be taken into account when attempting to protect the greater good.
Also, I learned from this book that when AIDS was first being described by the medical community, it was called GRID—“Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.” Seriously, WTF.
Thanks to Kate Beaton for recommending this book on her excellent website, that certainly you already know all about, because you are on the internet.
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I’ve never seen a gif that expresses my personal turmoil better than this.
