Sick'ov it

"You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:42:31 -0600

“You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it?”

- GlobalComment » Hey Stupak, women’s bodies are not bargaining chips, by the kickassed Sarah Jaffe (via pcquotes) (via novazembla) (via thesmarttart)(via clingtomymouth)

Thanks Jane.

Damn right.

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No way, the series finales of both The Office UK and Spaced...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:54:34 -0600

No way, the series finales of both The Office UK and Spaced feature this song at pivotal(ish) moments.

Tim and Dawn say goodbye at the Christmas party while Lee gets their coats.

Tim hangs out of a tank playing the song from a stereo in an attempt to apologize to Marcia.

Incredible.

momentarily: gabsy: ionsquare: allshallfade: “Do you wear...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:20:24 -0600

momentarily:

gabsy:

ionsquare:

allshallfade:

“Do you wear wigs?”

“No I do not.”

“Have you worn wigs?”

“No I have not.”

“Will you wear wigs?”

“Maybe.”

“When will you wear wigs?”

AUTO REBLOG.

I miss the gold old days of this fandom.

The dolphin from flipper died in a car accident lololol they’re so sweet at the end

(via mindset) If Michelle was this badass all the time,...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:18:49 -0600

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If Michelle was this badass all the time, I’d like her more. Suck it, Tony.

mindset: You don’t see that every day. <3

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:18:05 -0600

mindset:

You don’t see that every day.

this goes out to people telling me that the amendment was necessary for the overall bill to pass

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:16:08 -0600

abbyjean:

As usual, if you want to get anything done in America, step one is to sacrifice the mental and physical health of women by making it an Abortion Issue. So although HR 218 passed about forty minutes ago, it passed with an amendment which prohibits any insurance company receiving federal funds from covering abortions. This has the charming effect of probably killing insurance coverage for abortion altogether, notes NARAL:

The Stupak-Pitts amendment makes it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women. This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private-insurance plans cover abortion services.

Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans onboard SOMEHOW, this is just a battle but we won the war, etc etc. It all makes me want to crawl back up across the border. Why don’t these men ever notice that their go-to bargaining chip is women’s bodies? And if they do notice, why doesn’t it bother them? (harpyness)

(via vitallunacy) Jane? :)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:14:23 -0600

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Jane? :)

unburyingthelead: “I just felt this strong connection with her—just this fundamental rightness,”...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:12:34 -0600

unburyingthelead:

“I just felt this strong connection with her—just this fundamental rightness,” he said. When the couple got off the bus, they went shopping for a set of silver-spiked brass knuckles. “Not to sound too crude—not to degrade the romantic aspect of it—but an engagement ring is what?” asked Mr. Cubitt, who was wearing frayed, fingerless gloves. “It’s essentially you peeing on your territory. It’s a way to mark your lover, to say she’s accounted for. What better way to ward off potential suitors than with brass knuckles?”

- Countdown to Bliss

I mean, YES.

"The fan fiction is amazing: I’ve been sent whole novels featuring me as myself, in the Twilight..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:08:06 -0600

“The fan fiction is amazing: I’ve been sent whole novels featuring me as myself, in the Twilight world, with Edward in it as well.”

- (via robquotes)

hahahaha. I wanna know who sends him them.

This is a wonderful collision of worlds

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:37:16 -0600

“Gervais and Merchant return after making the second series of The office. All three of them are also just back from the Edinburgh festival where Pilkington produced a radio show with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.”

- rickygervaisshow.com talking about xfm over the years

Okay, so..

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:51:50 -0600

Ricky Gervais is on Spaced (circa 2000/2001) for half a second.
Stephen Merchant appears in Hot Fuzz and Fun, Fatboy, Run in scenes with Simon Pegg.
Karl co-hosted xfm with Simon and Nick Frost one day in 2002?? (stupid internet will not help me out with specifics)

I really hope that they are all pals since The Office/Spaced. :D

Spaced! “Pop Fiction” har har

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:27:49 -0600

Spaced! “Pop Fiction” har har

Conor Knighton won 10K on Pyramid?! Amazing.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:13:32 -0600

Conor Knighton won 10K on Pyramid?! Amazing.

alexandra-ewing: infoMania | October 22, 2009 edition I don’t...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:06:11 -0600

alexandra-ewing:

infoMania | October 22, 2009 edition

I don’t think I’ve ever posted the entire show before, but this was a perfect episode:

Ben goes to the red carpet of the Fox Reality Channel’s Really Awards over-dressed and upstages every “celebrity” he runs into

Conor introduces the new “How the !*#@ is This a Vibrator?” segment of “We’ve Got You Covered”, and later accidentally walks in on Sarah while ghost hunting

Sergio counts down the Top 5 Rap Videos on YouTube, which led to this exchange—
Sergio: Starting things off at #5 is the Killers with “Somebody Told Me.”
Me, outloud as video plays: What the hell? This song is like five years old.
Sergio: Yep, you heard right—the five-year-old rock song is the fifth most viewed rap video. Get your shit together, YouTube.

Brett gives the best Viral Video Film School I’ve ever seen (completely redeeming him in my eyes—you’ve earned it, Brett), which brings us to the high point of the episode: deeming himself the Baby Machine “because I have so much sex with girls—high-five, you guys, high-five” while high-fiving himself

So if you aren’t watching this, you are just depriving yourself of an underrated show that deserves more viewership.

Curious: what did Brett do before that he had to redeem himself in your eyes?

Ew. Ew ew ewwww.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:17:17 -0600

“So does that mean that my struggle as a woman and a feminist less valid because I am white? Is it uptopian to think that women could unite on one front, that is being women! I was not raised to see the differences in people immediately, rather the similarities. Am I automatically going to be categorized as privileged and therefore the enemy, even though when I argue for “women’s rights” I don’t mean black women or white women, I mean WOMEN? Is my opinion forever tainted? How do I truly rectify this without becoming one of Hoffman’s white feminists who misguidedly “include” women of color? And how am I to truly understand the plight of someone else, when I am not them, and therefore their experience is subjective, regardless of whatever “group” they belong to. See, there we go with the groups again.

I have the best intentions here, but I truly feel that continuing to marginalize and categorize only furthers the problem. I don’t mean to diminish the experiences of women of color, but I realize that as a white woman I can never truly feel what she feels. But I can identify with her on our commonalities.

What I meant by laywoman was not in the slightest way meant to be derogatory or elitist, although I am sure that’s how it was perceived. It was simply a figure of speech used to describe a woman who has not taken upon herself or had the opportunity to engage in feminism.

I mean, at the end of the day, in the vacuum we all are WOMEN aren’t we?”

-commenter “powerandstilletos” at bitchmagazine.com

shut up.