July 2010
17 posts
If you're pro-choice you should read this
The New Abortion Providers - NYTimes.com
It’s a piece about the state of abortion in the US that doesn’t make you want to curl up into a ball and cry.
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Hey, you.
Yeah, you.
I miss you.
Come be with me soon.
Hold my hair back while I throw up cheap breadsticks.
Snuggle with me in a nice clean hotel bed.
Kiss me good night.
I love you.
I miss you.
My girl.
I don't want to call my family a bunch of racists.
aedison:
But they have never looked kindly upon Alesha, my best friend. It’s not the fact that she’s from Africa that bothers them. It’s that’s she’s a giraffe. Specifically, a Rothschild giraffe. There are many different kinds, and sometimes they get offended when you mix them up.
People think it’s weird that Alesha and I are friends. People ask me what we do all day. Do I feed her leaves?...
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Jesus count
Day one, Slingerlands, NY to Findley Lake, NY: 0
Day two, Findley Lake, NY to Effingham, IL: 10 crosses, one billboard
This hotel is disgusting.
Illinois, you are not impressing me. I mean, granted, Ohio had a sloth, so the bar is set pretty high.
“I’m pretty sure the woman in the apartment downstairs is off having her baby...”
– Update!
The baby is born. Based on a conversation with the grandmother, we’re pretty sure it is 7 pounds and believe it to be named Julia. Or possibly Tulia. And we assume it’s a girl.
She doesn’t speak much English.
I'm pretty sure the woman in the apartment...
Her car (which has the carseat and window shade in it) has been gone all day.
The father’s car has not been gone, which means he didn’t go to work, but he’s not home, which means he went with her.
NO ONE is home, including her mother, who has been visiting from some European country with an accent we cannot determine, speaking a language we cannot eavesdrop on.
She was due...
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Wondering how many people are going to write Dooce...
after learning that she stood and watched—nay, encouraged with her filming—as her child wasted toilet paper when there are people out there who don’t have any toilet paper at. all.
For shame, Mrs. Armstrong!
The Intersection of Tumblr and The West Wing
dooeypig:
(Being completely serious. Just go with me..)
Tumblr, I like to think of this thing we have together as being comparable to Toby and CJ’s relationship. For some of you it’s more along the lines of Josh and Amy, but that’s for another post.
In this case, I’m Toby (clearly) and you’re CJ, and whereas the unnecessary ramblings of nearly everyone else on the planet Earth annoys the hell...
George Steinbrenner, Peter Rose and Shoeless Joe →
I have no idea if he’s right, and I quibble over a couple of commas*, but here’s my dad’s latest Huffington Post piece, because I am his number one PR person.
*I always do. I have very strong feelings about commas.
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Also I used to think Oliver North and Oliver Stone...
Assassinations, Central America, it made perfect sense to an eight-year-old.
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Confession
I was quite a ways into algebra before I figured out that the “least” in “least common denominator” meant lowest. Before that I thought it was the most uncommon denominator, perhaps the one that was least likely to work, and figuring it out was really quite baffling.