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A spokeswoman for McDonald’s told the Orlando Sentinel that the person who left the voice message for Bellamy with antigay slurs was let go. She said that the employee “acted outside the scope of his authority and was not responsible,” adding “[McDonald’s] has a zero tolerance policy prohibiting discrimination or harassment in the restaurant.”Good to hear!! What an asshole!
You may recall the deranged “ex-gay” advocate Richard Cohen, whose ridiculous “reparative therapies” such as beating out one’s homosexual tendencies with a tennis racket and a pillow became the laughingstock of YouTube. Well, it turns out that Cohen isn’t quite the relatively harmless lunatic we all thought. His book’s completely fabricated “statistics” about gays “recruiting” and molesting children (courtesy of fellow mental patient Paul Cameron) are being used to promote Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. Last night Rachel Maddow ripped him to pieces. When Cohen attempts to deny some of his words, Rachel blasts, “I’m reading it from your book, dude.”
(JoeMyGod)
I also find cats on roombas quite zen.
John Lithgow is so frickin’ scary in this departure from his typically comic character. Frustrated, because I already know next week is going to be a cliffhanger.
When the owner’s away, the cats will … Leo-Hector is one of 50 cats given a collar camera that snaps a pic every 15 minutes in a Nestle Purina-funded study. The findings indicate that cats don’t sleep as much as their owners assume: 22 percent of the felines’ time was spent looking out of windows, 12 percent was used to interact with other family pets and 8 percent was spent climbing on chairs or kitty condos.
Photo: Lyn Thornton / AP (via SFGate: Day in Pictures)
I’ve been wishing someone would do some serious kitty-cam research for so long.
"Every citizen of this country should have that legal right to be married. Marriage the word actually does mean something because people who see a gay coupling as a lesser thing in society can continue to [think] it’s lesser than marriage when really it’s the exact same thing. The exact same love, the exact same commitment, love of family."
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Portia de Rossi on The View yesterday.
This came after one of the most ridiculous statements to ever come from Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s annoying mouth: “Women want all the rights of men, but they’re not asking to be called men. Do you think…is the word [marriage] more important than the rights?”
WHAT?! How does that woman even have a job? Portia handled the ignorance with grace, of course. <3 her!
(via girlfriendisahomo)
Ave Maria (Franz Schubert) - Jessye Norman
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” - Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
Listen to a maiden’s prayer…so indescribably beautiful
I mean… I MEAN… WASHINGTONPOSTOMGWTFWHAAAAAAAT!@!()#$*$ [head explodes]
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
Didn’t Fear of a Black Planet come out in the early ’90s?? For fuck sake…
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jax, let’s watch it togeva! <3
OMG! Adorbz Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Thomas Balmes’ Internet-ready do-coo-mentary, Babies: The Movie.
A release date has been set for April 16, 2010.
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This is for you, Cretin. You mama you!
Cutie Patooties!
Oh dear. This trailer disturbed the puppy (who couldn’t figure out where the crying was coming from) as much as it did me.
Obviously the Asian baby is the cutest, although the Namibian babies sure give em a run for the money.
Gross. babies. gross.
RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after she, her parents, and her four brothers and sisters, received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County Deputy Constables in Waco, Texas, December 31, 2008. (via)
The incredible resilience of children at work…
Photo by Ian McAllister
“For seventeen years, Ian McAllister has lived on the rugged north coast of British Columbia, one of the last places on the planet where wolves live relatively undisturbed by humans. This book describes his experiences over that period following two packs of wolves, one in the extreme outer coastal islands and another farther inland in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest.
The behavior of these animals - which depend on the vast old-growth forest and its gifts - is documented in words and pictures as they fish for salmon in the fall, target seals hauled out on rocks in winter, and give birth to their young in the base of thousand-year-old cedar trees in spring. Most interestingly, scientific studies reveal a genetically distinct population of wolves - one that is increasingly threatened by human incursions.”
Image via Design You Trust
thanks to wolfandfox and loups
"I don’t imagine that 1970s feminists envisaged the rejection of educational opportunities, the refusal of family planning options, and the graft of bringing up children alone and on the breadline, as brave-new-world female choices for a post-liberation era, any more than they envisaged the advent of boob-jobs, pole-dancing supermodels and store-card bankruptcy. Actually, it is a big fat irony that feminists are now obliged to defend the right of lone mothers to stay at home with their young children, when the initial idea was to liberate women from the obligation to, well, stay at home with their young children."
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Is feminism really killing the family? (via gauntlet)
There we go. Another dig at pole dancing. SO SICK OF IT.
Hello. I AM A FEMINIST AND I POLE DANCE. I am sick and fucking tired of one of my favorite activities being used as THE example of faux feminism, faux empowerment, the failure of feminism, etc.
HOW ABOUT PUTTING DOWN THE JUDGMENT and learning what the fuck you’re even talking about before taking pot shots??
(via amberlrhea)
You’re so fabulous, Amber. Everything you post makes me smile.
