imfamousontumblr:

the only thing worse than a movie starring adam sandler is a movie starring adam sandler and adam sandler

thebergeronprocess:

blametaryn replied to your post: HOW TO MAKE EMMA LOVE YOU AS A HOCKEY PLAYER …

if you speak another language just get inside me now. omg what if he speaks some made up sci-fi movie language though

I wish I knew enough Klingon to say “I would not mind that at all” here but uh I don’t know any Klingon. It’d still be hot.

fek:

soupsoup:

A great interview with Jack Shafer on Reliable Sources about media criticism and having strong journalistic standards.

Only reblogging because I feel like Jack is—like anybody—baiting me by simply going on Reliable Sources to begin with. Howard Kurtz again proves to be about as insightful a media critic as I am a string theorist: I’m paraphrasing, but he asks if the proliferation of the internet puts additional “pressure” on media critics and whether or not their authority is minimized because of this, the foundation of that question of course being: Aren’t you worried about these hacks from the internet making us irrelevant? 

Too-easy answer aside, fact is, places like the Washington Post’s hostility at, skepticism towards, and slow adaptation of technology from 1997 onward is what has helped erode at what could be the resources to maintain the work of a media critic, superfluous or not, which is why it’s especially hysterical that Howard Kurtz left the Post for The Daily Beast before they could lay him off (not that they ever would, because he’s on CNN, which apparently means something to someone’s inherent market value. I’m still not sure I believe this, but Tina’s paying big bucks for him. Then again, Talk, amirite?).

Thankfully, Shafer comes up with the correct answer, because even though he’s on Reliable Sources, he’s still Jack Shafer:

“That’s always been a judgement call of editors, and sometimes editors make the wrong call. My editors, for example (until I was laid off) thought that I was the best, and paid me commensurate with that assessment.”

UPDATE: I just got to the part where Shafer looks at Kurtz, and calls him “a slow-moving target who bleeds profusely when hit. Who could resist?” 

shaferrr |m|

stfuconservatives:

agirlnamedhazel:

Powerful ad right here.

- That’s deep.

So this has shown up in the inbox a few times today. Pop quiz: at what point in the pregnancy can you guarantee that the embryo/fetus is not contemplating existentialism or its future? Answer: ALL OF IT. But especially before the pregnant person is even showing!

Another pop quiz: if a young girl lives with an abusive or judgmental mother, is it a wise idea for her to bring a child of her own into the world? Answer: PROBABLY NOT. So in this scenario, we have a VERY early pregnancy and a young woman who’s worried about her parents’ reaction. She looks like she’s in high school. At this point, the fetus weighs less than an ounce and has no brain activity whatsoever. The rights of the living, breathing, thinking, feeling person trump any “rights” the intruder in her uterus has.

So no, this is not deep, and this is not powerful. It’s emotional pandering and factually inaccurate. TRY AGAIN, PRO-LIFERS.

And this is actually a step UP from most “pro-life” ads, because the woman has a FACE. No joke.

timetruthhumor:

Rick Perry: Making George W. Bush seem sensible.

strawberryslady:

fsufeminist:

dothrakigypsy:

pearloftheswamp:

geekycrap:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

then make a move, sweethearts. this collar bone ain’t gonna lick itself…

On an unrelated note, my collar bone used to be so pronounced I could keep quarters in it. xD

Addendum: I also don’t really condone calling a woman a “bitch”. :P Going along that line, how exactly is calling someone a slang term for genitals supposed to be an insult? xD

Second addendum: Us nerdy best friends are fantastic lovers. You should look into it.

Sorry but this reeks of Nice Guy Syndrome. Just because a girl is best friends with a guy doesn’t not mean she’s obliged to fall in love with him. If she’s not falling for you, maybe YOU need to do something? Or maybe she just doesn’t have feelings for you. I don’t think anyone should have to settle just because you’re nice or a nerd, sorry.

^^^^^^^^^^^^

WOMEN: DO AS YOU’RE TOLD!

langer:

Ugh, so, seeing as Social Media Specialists refuse to stop shortening their links with those god awful stumbleupon/owly/etc things that put those stupid bars on the top of the page that every time I see them literally make me want to literally stab myself (and/or other people), I wrote¹ a detection script that gets rid of those stupid bars by automatically redirecting you to the actual page that you were actually trying to actually visit in the first place.

So if you use Chrome you can first install this thing called dotjs and then put this jobber² in your ~/.js/default.js (also available on my github):

jQuery(function() {
  var pattern;
  pattern = /([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,4})+\b(\/[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)+/;
  if (pattern.test(window.location.pathname)) {
    var url = pattern.exec(window.location.pathname)[0];
    if (url.indexOf('http') == 0) {
      window.location = url;
    } else {
      window.location = 'http://' + url;
    }
  }
});

¹by “wrote” I mean “reengineered some leftover code from my failled ‘startup’ formerly known as dashbrd formerly known as immerss”

²this might break shit for you, idk, ymmv, etc

Will this catch ALL those stupid bar sites? brb installing

timetruthhumor:

what’s wrong with ron paul?

• He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
• He believes abortion should be illegal.
• He doesn’t support the repeal of DoMA and didn’t support the repeal of DADT.
• He doesn’t support putting more money into inner-city schools, but does support vouchers for religious schools.
• He believes creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
• He doesn’t believe HIV causes AIDS.
• While he doesn’t support a federal ban on gay marriage, he also doesn’t support a federal law legalizing gay marriage. Some see this as a states’ rights issue, and this is how he frames it, but he does support other federal legalization movements (drugs, for example).
• His newsletter spouted horrible racist content for twenty years. He denies writing any of it, but if he allowed this content to go out under his name, he either approved it or was so ignorant of both the type of people he associates with and the type of content going under his name that he shouldn’t be trusted to run anything.
• He believes in reinstating the gold standard, which most economists believe was one of the major causes of several financial crises during the early part of the 20th Century, including the Great Depression.
• He believes in free market capitalism.
• He wants to get rid of Affirmative Action.
• He is a frequent guest on the Alex Jones radio show. Alex Jones is a government-hating conspiracy theorist nutter. If you don’t know who Alex Jones is, then Google him.
• Any of these items should keep a sane liberal from voting for Ron Paul.

His stance on drugs and wars win him a lot of liberal fans, but only if they don’t look at literally anything else he stands for.

Source: steviemcfly 

Ron Fucking Paul. And not in the good Amanda Palmer way.

cognitivedissonance:

Recently, The Heritage Foundation released a report on poverty in American, largely trying to debunk the idea that poor people are poor. They included facts like the majority of people living in poverty have refrigerators, microwaves, and air conditioners. Never mind these things might be attached to a rental unit of some kind… it’s not like those items listed are big-ticket items, particularly when bought used. 

I met a family the other day who, according to the Heritage Foundation, is living in the lap of luxury. I’ll let you folks make up your minds. 

I was at the Salvation Army last week and was looking at the appliances. There was an older microwave for $5. A woman in front of me (I’ll call her Ann) at the register bought the microwave and was telling her kids they’d get microwave popcorn again. It looked like that $5 microwave made those kids’ day. Now, that microwave would have been included in The Heritage Foundation’s analysis because she also receives WIC, and Heritage Foundation is especially interested in those receiving federal benefits.

I know she receives WIC, because she asked me if all the grocery stores in town took it. Ann just moved here about three weeks ago and was staying with a friend who was now in the process of moving away. I talked to her for about half an hour outside the store. She asked if I knew which hotel was the cheapest and cleanest, because she couldn’t afford the rent here (college is about to start, so the cheapest rentals are gone) and she’s on a list for a housing voucher.

I helped her put a suitcase on a luggage rack on the top of her car to make room for the microwave in her trunk. She mentioned she was glad to have a place to work and, she hoped, a place to live. I asked where she moved from. She said Denver, and that she and her kids were living in their car for a few months (in the midst of a heat wave) because her landlord kicked her out and she had nowhere to go. Ann said she never signed a lease and the landlord evicted her with just a few hours notice because her two-year-old was too noisy. She was afraid to go for DFS for help because she thought they’d take the kids, what with them living in the car. She interviewed for a job at a fast food place here about a week ago and starts this Monday. She’d been out of work for about 5 months when she moved up here.

I gave her the phone numbers for every community resource I could think of, pointed her towards the hotels I knew were cheap and clean, and offered to help in any way I could. Ann said that I’d helped, that she already knew how to get along the best she could, and that “being poor takes skills you don’t know you have ‘til you need them.”

But according to Heritage Foundation, she’s not poor. She and her 3 kids are living in a hotel here that has a fridge, a queen bed (or two), a $5 microwave she bought, and she’s living in the lap of luxury (as defined by them)? I don’t think so. Their report exemplifies what I (and others) call “Poor people can’t have nice things.” Basically, if you have a very basic amenity, like a microwave, you’re obviously not poor. Apparently, being poor involves some kind of “noble suffering” and if you aren’t suffering Oliver Twist-style, you aren’t poor. 

I can see Ann and her kids were struggling. But that’s seemingly not “low” enough for folks at the Heritage Foundation. I don’t care what “amenities” people in poverty supposedly have - to me, one person being one paycheck away from homelessness or food insecurity is one too many. One in seven Americans currently rely on food stamps to eat. And never mind those folks trying to subsist on the goodwill of others and/or unemployment. I’m not going to quibble about a cell phone or a television. 

I hope she’s doing alright, the job works out, and the kids get microwave popcorn.

itsnotaprybar:

3r1u:

stormcloudsandstars:

friendship-dies-true-love-lies:

Lyra tried to say what she meant, whispering close to his little pale face in the darkness.

Vimes remembered late-night patrols when he could practically see by the glow coming from some of the windows.

This Skill includes a First Aid Specialty, which is how the average unskilled guy can patch somebody up (Medicine is Skilled Use Only).

She flashed me a triumphant smile as she linked her arm in mine.

A concrete path curved towards the brow of the hill.