I can just hear it now, on Wednesday. All those people that poured all this money into Wisconsin, if you don’t show up and vote, will say, `see, we got them now. We’re finally going to break every union in America. We’re gonna break every government in America. We’re gonna stop worrying about the middle class. We don’t give a riff whether poor people get to work their way into it. We got our way now. We got it all. Divide and conquer works.’
Bill Clinton, speaking at a Tom Barrett rally in Milwaukee today (via quickhits)
Bill Clinton, you just made it onto my very small political hero list. Thank you!
(Source: Washington Post, via nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident)
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Finally, a makeup advertisement addressing the fact that makeup is an ARTFORM, and isn’t only used to “hide your flaws”.
Did Maybelline install surveillance equipment in my house? All of these things are so perfect. And I like how the colors used in this aren’t muted, desaturated tones, but bright, “unnatural” colors. Because I don’t wear makeup to hide any sort of flaws. I wear bright colors, lay it on thick, because it’s fun and expressive.
These make me wanna wear make-up.
(Source: lifeinthefastlaine)
“What a Piece of Work is Man”: Reflection on Masculinity and Gender Perceptions (Men With “Lady” Hair)
YOU GUYS
Um. Yes. I LOVE THIS.
I’m gonna leave this here…
much love for all of this
Mentlegen.
(via poupon)
Ironically, the behaviours we most revile in “mama’s boys” may be a product of the same social forces that caused people to roll their eyes at close mother-son relationships in the first place: rigid gender roles and sexism. It is not an excess of emotional intimacy and support that breeds a man who can’t take care of himself, after all, or who can’t find a partner who lives up to his mother’s image. It’s a society that says that men shouldn’t need to know how to take care of themselves, and that puts women in constant competition for male attention and validation.
The Myth of the Mama’s Boy: my latest piece at Daily Life.
(Source: rachelhills)
![theatlantic:
New York City Declares War on Soda
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a city-wide ban on sodas and other sugary drinks that are bigger than 16 ounces. The proposal would make it illegal for restaurants, delis, food carts, sports arenas, and movie theaters in New York City to sell sweetened drinks that exceed the size limit, or from even giving out cups bigger than 16 ounces if they offer self-serve beverages.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Reuters]
Can we stop using “war on ______” now? There are other, more accurate and original choices of phrasing available. The “war on” headline format is so derivative it’s the kind of cliche we’ll see reminisced about in 30 years on whatever station is the next VH1.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4w868IHSU1qcokc4o1_250.jpg)
New York City Declares War on Soda
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a city-wide ban on sodas and other sugary drinks that are bigger than 16 ounces. The proposal would make it illegal for restaurants, delis, food carts, sports arenas, and movie theaters in New York City to sell sweetened drinks that exceed the size limit, or from even giving out cups bigger than 16 ounces if they offer self-serve beverages.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Reuters]
Can we stop using “war on ______” now? There are other, more accurate and original choices of phrasing available. The “war on” headline format is so derivative it’s the kind of cliche we’ll see reminisced about in 30 years on whatever station is the next VH1.
So to sum up, one candidate is portrayed, accurately, as being extremely rich, with a wife who has rich-person leisure-time pursuits; and the other candidate is portrayed, accurately, as someone whose secretive policies have wrought dead children, broken promises, violated due process rights, and possibly created more terrorists. And our political culture in the United States is so blinkered that the story about the rich candidate whose wife rides horses is regarded, by conservatives and savvy Politico journalists, as the one that is noteworthy for being negative; whereas the story about the Orwellian turn in the White House doesn’t even merit mention.
Conor Friedersdorf, on the lost moral perspective of the 2012 election.
THANK YOU. Obama has done good things, socially speaking. But the man is following Bush’s lead on expanding executive powers and is conning us all through redirection while he brings the country closer to a police state.
(via theatlantic)
nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident:
This would be awesome.
C-can we make this a virus that affects Tumblr, too?
Someone needs to get on this immediately.
(Source: monkey-with-a-gun)
A Church posts a billboard apology to North Carolinians for “judgmental, deceptive, manipulative actions” done against the LGBT community with the passage of Amendment One.
