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bmckinney: theduty: never forget.
Oct 30th
fuckyeahbabies: ginoid: o.o
Oct 30th
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Oct 30th
notemily: A minimum wage worker would have to work for...
Oct 30th
Is this the best we can do? Forcing people to buy private...
— Dennis Kucinich (via azspot)...
Oct 30th
HA
champagnecandy: abbyjean: via think progress: Former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales...
Oct 30th
Why do congressmen and senators rail on the supposed...
— David Sirota (via azspot) (via...
Oct 30th
Personal is Political: Crying While Arguing
Oct 30th
clingtomymouth: shireenali: Shibam, a town in Hadramawt,...
Oct 30th
somerset: (via loveyourchaos) An oldie but a...
Oct 30th
fuckyeahbabies: (via flyinggiraffes)
Oct 30th
When men focus on their urge to punish the rapist with their...
— Kate Harding, Not That You...
Oct 30th
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of...
— Gloria Steinem (via...
Oct 30th
thomaswheatley: tuppenhut: Dawn’s Early Light: Ralph...
Oct 30th
ohmyowls: (via killerwhales)
Oct 30th
If you don’t tell people you have a disorder, they think...
— a comment...
Oct 30th
thesmarttart: “Could Carrie Bradshaw Have Survived the...
Oct 29th
We also understand that just because you’re privileged in...
— Penny Red: Painful Privilege...
Oct 29th
Why is Rihanna Expected to be a Feminist...
Oct 29th
somerset: kidskidskids: constantflux: It Must Be Love,...
Oct 29th
External validation is nice. But it cannot be the only thing...
— Marianne Kirby at The Rotund...
Oct 29th
notemily: Probably Bad News
Oct 29th
Since I’ve started to write things down more often I have...
— “Why You Should Write Things...
Oct 29th
:)
Oct 29th
hungryghoast: Hi. I am an Archivist. I’m here to help. ...
Oct 29th
Oppression is a trauma that does not have to come from one...
— Oppression is a Trauma: Beyond...
Oct 29th
thomaswheatley: brookehatfield: tree in front of the...
Oct 29th
One of the diagnostic criteria for BPD is promiscuity. This...
— Jane Brazen
Oct 29th
abbyjean: igather: I’m just very, very tired. This dynamic here- someone a on the losing side...
Oct 29th
grabbingsand: Showed this excellent old snake oil ad to a...
Oct 29th
An American who exonerates himself because “[slavery]’s...
— stuff white people do: point...
Oct 28th
Men and women want the same things from sex—closeness,...
— When “Self-Help” is Part of...
Oct 28th
The fiction of history as such may be parsed as the...
— Make Your Own Academic...
Oct 28th
ekswitaj: tryingtofollow: Lollipops turn into...
Oct 28th
I have always tried to put my kids first, and then…put...
— Michelle Obama (via apsies)
Oct 28th
In a bad mood after reading a DailyKos...
katoleary: As you can probably guess, the gist of the comments was “Why are you maligning men?”...
Oct 28th
brooklynmutt: basketcasecomix
Oct 28th
It’s like anybody who had anything that made them feel...
— Ira Glass (via sade)
Oct 28th
loveyourchaos: yerawizardharry: andthegiantpeach: (via...
Oct 28th
Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my...
— President Obama via Reuters...
Oct 28th
Incidents like this are exactly why marginalized bodies die...
— Womanist Musings (via...
Oct 28th
what i always think when i’m told i’m ruining feminism or...
— abbyjean WORD.
Oct 28th
Addendum to the post about the pregnant...
bmckinney: Seriously? People don’t say a word about photoshopping or sexualizing of teen models....
Oct 27th
Umpteen discussions of humorless feminazis have led me to...
— Anna N. @ Jezebel (via...
Oct 27th
loveyourchaos: omg :’)
Oct 27th
Until more men care enough about...
katoleary: nothing is going to change. Reblogged for simple, terrifying truth.
Oct 27th
The thing is, these people who committed this crime are not...
— Comment here on the...
Oct 27th
When we’re all constantly told that women’s primary worth...
— Kate wins. She is also perhaps...
Oct 27th
onlycupcakes: Via Coco Cake Cupcakes :D
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
alfff: (via tokyo-nights) Monorail cat v2.
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
Out of curiosity, and because I’m sure we could all use a...
— Crickets Indeed (via igather)
Oct 27th
Memo to self:
igather: Don’t read articles about gang rape. Just….. don’t.
Oct 27th
bmckinney: abbyjean: The Georgia Republican Party is...
Oct 27th
A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot...
— George Carlin (via crowth)...
Oct 27th
I do not want the bare minimum. I want the best effort that...
— “Hard Work” « Renegade...
Oct 27th
R.I. prostitutes speak out against bill to...
Oct 27th
abbyjean: Despite Yahoo’s user demographic being 52% female, they decided it would be a good idea...
Oct 26th
bmckinney: theduty: Disney Floozies. Indeed. And my...
Oct 26th
I thought I got the birth I wanted because I was determined...
— sweet | salty - sweet | salty...
Oct 26th
this really happens
This is why I immediately stop listening whenever people start whining about “free...
Oct 26th
There is still a considerable economic price to pay for...
— super freakonomics, via ezra....
Oct 26th
abbyjean: Maybe, however, this inattention is dangerous; an implicit message that if you are...
Oct 26th
here’s another little pet peeve of mine: pretending that...
— amanda hess @ tigerbeatdown...
Oct 26th
Visitation policies
It unnerves me to think that people actually need to be told most of these things (especially the...
Oct 26th
xkcd - A Webcomic - So Bad It's Worse -...
Oct 26th
These doctor see “delivery” (not “birth”, note) as a...
— Utah OB practice declares its...
Oct 26th
Beltway elites have health insurance and thus the costs and...
— Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com ...
Oct 26th
lickystickypickyme: Behind the scenes. By Steve Byland ...
Oct 26th
How can you tell who all is following you on Tumblr? Does that option not exist anymore?
Oct 26th
bmckinney: clingtomymouth: ...
Oct 26th
somerset: feminismisforlovers: Brooklyn.
Oct 26th
madeintheshade: Woman with Baby - 1940s
Oct 26th
myparentswereawesome: Cicely Submitted by Amber :D My...
Oct 25th
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Oct 19th
You say: That's so gay.
ihatethismess: You say: That’s so gay. Instead say : That’s so awful. You say: It’s so lame...
Oct 18th
Welcome Back to the Ranks of the Uninsured
Oct 18th
Oversharing is a charge that is overwhelmingly leveled more...
— Michael Chabon (via heartbeat...
Oct 18th
ohmyowls: (via loveyourchaos) Love the one in the top...
Oct 18th
apsies: suicideblonde: Dita von Teese’s kitchen OMG.
Oct 18th
My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society...
— Rush Limbaugh No, these...
Oct 18th
WANT.
Oct 17th
People who were born in 1989 are 20 years old. They don’t remember the 80s at all. Also, for...
Oct 17th
As intimate and vulnerable as a lot of my sex writing is, it...
— Gina de Vries
Oct 17th
hey-y-owls: snuh:dukkha:acacia226:Flickr Photo Download:...
Oct 17th
The hole is the latest clever device to use ‘metamaterials’,...
— Researchers create portable...
Oct 17th
The controversy over Brown’s sanity and over the...
— Re-evaluating John Brown’s...
Oct 17th
EXACTLY.
Betsy McCaughey:
You're so rich. You can afford to provide care for anybody in your family, whatever they need.
Jon Stewart:
That's right. That's why I don't mind being taxed a little more to help people who are not in as favorable a situation. I don't mind that. In fact, I welcome it, because it's a way for me to give back to the country that has allowed me to come this far.
Oct 17th
Please, for the love of all that is virtuous, do not tart up...
— AZspot
Oct 17th
(via retrospace)
Oct 17th
You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to...
— A Dress A Day (via...
Oct 17th
ihatethismess: kapitalisthippie: igather: ...
Oct 17th
Also, the whole "pick your battles"...
katoleary: Assumes that I’m not picking my battles. Maybe the reason why you think you do this...
Oct 17th
I was told to pick my battles so I...
katoleary: because simply not getting mad about things that remind me of rape myths and how sexual...
Oct 17th
To the person who posted the picture of...
See, I think there needs to be a trigger warning on *that* kind of thing. I know Tumblr...
Oct 17th
abbyjean: Since 2001, perceptions of crime have become far...
Oct 16th
Via Rusty; sent to my mom :)
Oct 16th
AP: Interracial couple denied marriage...
Oct 16th
fuckyeahbabies: shaylablogs: Who is the hobo baby on the...
Oct 16th
fuckyeahbabies: natashaviolet: Moses & Jace »...
Oct 16th
1 in 12 transgender Americans faces the chance of being...
— reach out people! open arms...
Oct 16th
Oct 16th
Baby + 1950s tile = WIN
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
I can’t resist a good Poe joke.
Oct 16th
Be wary of those who tell you to ‘get over it.’ They are...
— The Encouragement of Strangers...
Oct 16th
meinekatze: via nukoup.nukos.net
Oct 16th
hey-y-owls: I’m no expert, but I’m gonna call that one an...
Oct 16th
A is for abortion | Megan Carpentier |...
Oct 16th
I can bet you that child is alternately getting the piss...
— My father weighs in on the...
Oct 16th
i'm just saying
abbyjean: on average, three kids age 5 or under are murdered every two days. some years it’s higher...
Oct 16th
Katiepalooza was right.
rosasparks: Little Falcon was hiding… AWESOME. This whole thing reminds me of the part in...
Oct 16th
"They use my bathroom"
pilgrimsoul: This is my new go-to excuse for why I don’t hate men.
Oct 16th
(via sweet-formality)
Oct 15th
And I certainly won’t let the sanctimonious women’s studies...
— Daily Kos: Pie fight ad ...
Oct 15th
Name something...
bmckinney: rrrrred: …a sensibility, belief, value, action… …good or bad… …that you see as...
Oct 15th
Do not call me 'hysterical'
Oct 15th
From Flickr user aaardvaark in the Grumpy Birds pool
Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
nyanyanya: 1255414931373.jpg
Oct 15th
onlycupcakes: Via Bath Baby Cakes
Oct 15th
(via papertissue)
Oct 15th
My irritation was caused by men who who think that, because...
— sexartandpolitics I’m...
Oct 15th
The Daily Beast | Meghan McCain: Stop the Fat...
Oct 15th
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why...
— Dom Helder Câmara, late...
Oct 15th
telegantmess: think4yourself: kbels: ...
Oct 15th
hortenseg: Of all the symptoms available in that...
Oct 15th
Ed Note: Sorry, guys, comments disabled. This site is not a...
— Awesome. (via pilgrimsoul) ...
Oct 15th
I do not think all men are RUINED by privilege. I think all...
— jgh (via gauntlet)
Oct 15th
OMG OMG OMG Via Retro Renovation… I can barely...
Oct 15th
bmckinney: thedailywhat: Buy This: “Grammar Nerd...
Oct 15th
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested...
— Essay - The Collider, the...
Oct 15th
fuckyeahbabies: zachisaac: The smallest things can mean...
Oct 15th
My opinion is: yeah, most liberal dudes I know are sadly...
— Wannablessedbe: unicorns and...
Oct 15th
Additionally, I’m sick of the “You need to know better men”...
— Kat O’Leary
Oct 15th
…oh wait, I didn’t get reamed on that post, it was another one. Going to edit the Tumblr...
Oct 15th
Danny...
I’m confused by this part of your post: I’ve been seeking a term that doesn’t distance...
Oct 15th
I love this country but you have to love your country like...
— Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) (via...
Oct 14th
Suffering, disease, and death are our common lot. They ought...
— America’s Blind Spot: Health...
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
It is time for women to realise how little they are...
— The subtle art of misogyny...
Oct 14th
jgh: hono-lulu: bringmethathorizon: thedailywhat: ...
Oct 14th
A Geneva High School teacher is being accused of making...
— Geneva High School teacher...
Oct 14th
Why is my A/V receiver so heteronormative?
Oct 14th
dominickbrady: blacksoappalace: ric stultz.
Oct 14th
10. In a section devoted to “future leaders,” there were...
— Top Ten Reasons Why The GOP...
Oct 14th
kelsium: I never delete emails from ex-anythings: boyfriends, friends, bosses, roommates. You never...
Oct 13th
sexartandpolitics: phantasmagasm: why It is only due to...
Oct 13th
Why I like Tumblr
Oct 13th
abbyjean: A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Oct 13th
Though Obama is in many ways more liberal than Clinton, it’s...
— Feminism’s Last Line of...
Oct 13th
katoleary: Dexter so small :D
Oct 13th
Watch
ekswitaj: heckyeahlaurakelly: gilmoure: Let’s all laugh at the working poor who want to pay...
Oct 13th
ohmyowls: (via pacificcru) I hope these little owls are...
Oct 13th
Oct 13th
Underlying every complaint of “PC” is the absurd notion that...
— The Greatest Cliché: The...
Oct 13th
ihatethismess: thedaysarenotfullenough: ...
Oct 13th
Mental Health Services and the Welfare System
Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
(via pacificcru) Puffball!
Oct 12th
A learning experience is one of those things that says, “You...
— Douglas Adams (via...
Oct 12th
(via unburyingthelead) Published by Washington Square...
Oct 12th
I’m not saying this is a great situation, but my point...
— Penelope Trunk Have I...
Oct 12th
Someone has to pay for women to live while they take care of...
— Penelope Trunk (via notemily)
Oct 12th
somerset: loveyourchaos: (via pacificcru) I love owls...
Oct 12th
bmckinney: nerdgasms: 12minds:ewalker9:samfreakintastic:...
Oct 12th
Heavy infant in Grand Junction denied health...
Oct 12th
Hey, progressive types. Do you ever say anything like...
— Chally
Oct 12th
Rape Culture 101
Oct 12th
The problem is that if there is any chance of danger to the...
— Equal Writes: How women deal...
Oct 12th
ohmyowls: (via pacificcru)
Oct 12th
ohmyowls: pacificcru
Oct 12th
How hard it is to trust the part of you that cares whether...
— Samia (read the full post)...
Oct 12th
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is...
— Martin Luther King Jr. (via...
Oct 11th
It shouldn’t be a problem to assert these two things,...
— Are You There, God? It’s Me,...
Oct 11th
ANDREA DWORKIN NEVER SAID ALL SEX IS...
historicupstart: pilgrimsoul: If you bring up Andrea Dworkin in any kind of argument, and you...
Oct 11th
AP: 2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans...
Oct 11th
lickystickypickyme: Sanitized tapeworms…THE answer to your...
Oct 11th
If you're able to drink milk, you have a...
illuminatethenos: The human body isn’t supposed to be able to digest lactose. But, in some places in...
Oct 11th
(via sarahbearkat) YES!!!
Oct 11th
Hopefully you were saying that about the...
Oct 11th
This breaks my heart. The person who lives in this house...
Oct 11th
(via katiekatie)
Oct 11th
(via witofthestaircase) Adorable house sparrow = instant...
Oct 11th
gauntlet: lacontessa: In 1945, 18-year-old Princess...
Oct 11th
Here’s the thing: teenagers are sexual. They just are,...
— Sady Doyle (via gauntlet) (via...
Oct 11th
(via clingtomymouth)
Oct 11th
clingtomymouth: ursamajor:(via fuckyeahhappy)
Oct 10th
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed...
— Kay Redfield Jamison, An...
Oct 10th
I think what really bugs me is that it plays in to the...
— Thoughts of a shy woman
Oct 10th
The 10 mysteries of human behaviour that...
lickystickypickyme: 1 - Blushing: Charles Darwin struggled to explain why evolution made us ...
Oct 10th
(via loveyourchaos)
Oct 10th
sexisnottheenemy: Chris Craymer Romance
Oct 10th
notemily: evoke: oddish: zombieparty: (via tryphena) ...
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
nrrdgrrrl: i am literally laughing out loud.
Oct 10th
(via loveorsomething)
Oct 10th
spontaneouslove: weird thing about babies # 79801: you...
Oct 10th
Great moments in Biden
rosasparks: pilgrimsoul: Him choking up during the debate with Palin last year when talking...
Oct 10th
joyfulgirlphotography: (via boomswaggaboom)
Oct 10th
nevver: Fridays
Oct 10th
CNN: "Is your little girl hyper, maybe...
jgh: dailyhuff: Me: Maybe it’s an AWESOME thing, you mean. I want my little girl to kick ass, CNN....
Oct 10th
dominickbrady: igather: ...
Oct 10th
The government still behaves too much (but ever less) as if...
— An outdated vision of women’s...
Oct 10th
And this is the entire history of feminism and anti-rape...
— Sady Doyle (via gauntlet)
Oct 10th
Rape culture is 1 in 6 women being sexually assaulted in...
— Shakesville | Rape Culture...
Oct 9th
10 things you need to stop tweeting about -...
Oct 9th
bohemea: Jim & Pam - The Office Wedding
Oct 9th
bohemea: Mental Snapshot - The Office Wedding
Oct 9th
bohemea: Kelly & Ryan - The Office Wedding
Oct 9th
(via loveyourchaos)
Oct 9th
yeah, pelosi!
abbyjean: via think progress, Earlier this week, the National Republican Congressional Committee...
Oct 9th
Obama Girls to Dad: Nobel is No Biggie
Malia:
Dad, you won the Nobel Peace Prize. And it's Bo's birthday.
Sasha:
And we have a three-day weekend.
Oct 9th
And how dare a rape survivor actually respond to her trauma...
— Cara
Oct 9th
champagnecandy: amberlrhea: sexartandpolitics: Your...
Oct 9th
dailyhuff: Found via Reddit. New Google Street Views from...
Oct 9th
(via ohmyowls)
Oct 9th
apsies: President Barack Obama helps his niece, Sevita, as...
Oct 9th
Mr. President, tell us the truth about the failed health...
— Letter to Obama From the Mad...
Oct 9th
ohmyowls: loveyourchaos
Oct 9th
onlycupcakes: Via PMT Cupcakes
Oct 9th
onlycupcakes: Via Annie’s Eats
Oct 9th
kittenskittenskittens: Scary Outside
Oct 9th
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to...
— Ray Bradbury (via presidents)...
Oct 9th
(via iamthecrime)
Oct 9th
10 Reasons Not to Bring Someone Back From the...
Oct 9th
somerset: heyfatchick: (via thethickness: ilovefat:...
Oct 9th
Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to...
Oct 9th
sexartandpolitics: Your Race Affects Whether People Write...
Oct 9th
And let’s face it, those reviews you so pain-painstakingly...
— Burned Out on Blogging? Give...
Oct 9th
Today, I asked a little girl I was...
(via papertissue) This sounds like me when I was little.
Oct 9th
I am not the thought police. I am challenging you to think...
— Shakesville: Teaspoons 101: I...
Oct 9th
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to...
— Clare Boothe Luce (via...
Oct 9th
ekswitaj: loveyourchaos: THIS, my friends, is the story...
Oct 9th
So this is not really just about these high schools boys and...
— Commenter Hiroine Protagonist...
Oct 8th
4 Anti-Feminist Cliches: Highlights Of The...
Oct 8th
This reminds me of Charles Karelis’s “The Persistence of...
— Ezra Klein (via abbyjean) (via...
Oct 8th
Free Depression Screening - National...
Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
jessicasjunk: ZOMG Jesus, you make me LOL!! via...
Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
juliasegal: Red and Blue don’t make Orange…
Oct 8th
Watch
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine head to the ends of the earth in search of animals on the...
Oct 8th
bmckinney: savagemike: Pigeons. Will they ever learn?
Oct 8th
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It was hard being in a feminist band in the early 90’s, I’m...
— Kathleen Hanna (via...
Oct 8th
But here’s the question: how do you think sex ed ought to...
— Que(e)rying Sex Ed...
Oct 8th
My guess is that the busybodies who accuse child-free women...
— You keep using that word. I do...
Oct 8th
(via wasting)
Oct 8th
Sex columns vary widely and don’t always include feminist...
— Alex DiBranco, The Nation:...
Oct 8th
(via loveyourchaos)
Oct 8th
It makes me want to smash things. It makes me want to smash...
— Penny Red: Little Lolitas?
Oct 7th
To say this was the single greatest thing I have witnessed...
— Pacing The Panic Room: The...
Oct 7th
These data points suggest a rather simple approach to...
— The health effects of...
Oct 7th
somerset: (via killerwhales) OMG. Instant reblog.
Oct 7th
Confession: I wasn’t fully aware of ableism until the...
— Robot Heart: Sex, Religion,...
Oct 7th
Advice for women who are too pregnant to function anymore:...
— Design Mom: Practical...
Oct 7th
The ‘predator state’ describes what happens when chicken...
— James K. Galbraith (via...
Oct 7th
Via someecards
Oct 7th
bmckinney: prolix21: via www.code-muse.com
Oct 7th
champagnecandy: amberlrhea: fuckyeahbirds: yenners:...
Oct 7th
Cobb teen told he can't dress like a female...
Oct 7th
via PostSecret
Oct 7th
Missing someone isn’t about how long it has been since you...
— thundrrr (via deiiu) (via...
Oct 7th
My cleavage ain’t gonna ruin your revolution.
— champagnecandy
Oct 7th
Perhaps I should start the mansplaining...
abbyjean: pilgrimsoul: I want to hear one more time how it’s just like a racial slur. oh i love...
Oct 7th
Jesus' General: Suggestions for the new...
Oct 7th
smutandsparkle: skinnydipp: (via thecoffinaffairs)
Oct 7th
For several decades women inside the secret services were...
— From Top secret: a century of...
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
savethekitties: mariusu: 207 (via Cabana Portraits)
Oct 6th
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Oct 6th
fuckyeahbirds: yenners: beautefragile: Kate Doodles
Oct 6th
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal...
— James Carroll (via...
Oct 6th
Verification of illegal immigrants is...
Oct 6th
Women are trained to be polite, non-aggressive, and above...
— Cimorene
Oct 6th
Which is all to say that this is a very long rant expressing...
— thecurvature (I changed the...
Oct 6th
skybarn: Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ...
Oct 6th
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Oct 6th
mariadiaz: An escort service’s 1980s New Wave ad...
Oct 6th
Some secrets can be toxic, is the truth, they hurt people...
— therapydoc
Oct 6th
mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every...
Oct 6th
abbyjean: chuckmore: My award for best photo of the decade...
Oct 6th
igather: lazz: Six of the country’s best pole dancers...
Oct 6th
Anyone surprised by the venomous, over-the-top opposition to...
— Paul Krugman, NYT (via...
Oct 6th
When people say they do not care what others think of them,...
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon...
Oct 6th
heartwarming: sunshinesong: (via calikalie) I won’t be...
Oct 5th
Voters didn’t know much about Democrat Franklin Pierce when...
— via Mental Floss (via...
Oct 5th
And it’s taken a good long time for him to wrap his...
— Liss at Shakespeare’s...
Oct 5th