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defilerwyrm:

AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE

FUCKING NAILED IT

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jackpowerx:

acornfarm:

defilerwyrm:

AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE

FUCKING NAILED IT

A+ commentary!

THANK YOU

Some of you are graduating summa cum laude. Some of you are graduating magna cum laude. And some of you are graduating thank you laude.

PRESIDENT OBAMA, giving the commencement speech at Morehouse College (via CBS News)

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annaverity:

I am so here for this.

Sophia Phillips receives a flag from Brig. General James Parquarette as her mother and widow Christine Phillips watches as members of the US Army honor guard perform a full military honors burial service for US Army Staff Sergeant Francis G. Phillips IV at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on May 20, 2013. By Jim Watson/AFP/Getty.

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Sophia Phillips receives a flag from Brig. General James Parquarette as her mother and widow Christine Phillips watches as members of the US Army honor guard perform a full military honors burial service for US Army Staff Sergeant Francis G. Phillips IV at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on May 20, 2013. By Jim Watson/AFP/Getty.

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amymebberson:

Princess Time Lords

Pocket Princesses will not be seen this week. The girls are currently at New York Comic Con, cosplaying along with everyone else.

jcatgrl:

freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up. it doesn’t mean that i am not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up.

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nodaybuttodaytodefygravity:

greatleapingocelots:

Ryan and Colin throughout the years.

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david:

“Spaceflight finale: To some this may look like a sunset. But it’s a new dawn.” – Col. Chris Hadfield

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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick (via uni-tea)

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“Mr. Sulu, remind me to never piss you off…”

Sulu’s a badass

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vegansanfrancishet:

So, I paint my nails pretty regularly these days. I also work as a barista/cashier pretty regularly these days. A few weeks back, I had a customer come in, a fairly typical, sheltered, suburban soccer mom, and she ordered a latte from me. She saw my brightly colored nails and said, “Wow, you’re so brave! My son asked me about painting his nails, and if it’s okay for boys to do that. Now I’ll tell him there’s a cool guy who does it too!” It was a nice moment, very cute.

Then, last week, she came in again, and said, “Hey, I’m so glad you’re here! I want you to meet someone!” She then brings her son forward, and says, “Okay sweetie, show him what you did!” And he throws his hands up, showing off his bright, sparkling blue nails. He shows them off, and I show mine off to him. He smiles. We fist bump.

Guys, I’ve only wanted to cry once at work before, and that was when someone ordered a large dry soy cappuccino on ice.

This time, though. This was a good cry.

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The dark side of home schooling: America's Christian right tried to train up 'culture warriors' →

The fundamentalist home schooling world also advocates an extraordinarily authoritarian view of the parental role. Corporal punishment is frequently encouraged. The effects are, again, often quite devastating. “People who experienced authoritarian parents tend to turn into adults with poor boundaries,” writes one pseudonymous HA blogger. “It’s an extremely unsatisfying and unsustainable way to live.”

In America, we often take for granted that parents have an absolute right to decide how their children will be educated, but this leads us to overlook the fact that children have rights, too, and that we as a modern society are obligated to make sure that they get an education. Families should be allowed to pursue sensible homeschooling options, but current arrangements have allowed some families to replace education with fundamentalist indoctrination.

As the appearance of HA reminds us, the damage done by this kind of false education falls not just on our society as a whole, but on the children who are pumped through the ideology machine. They are the traumatized veterans of our culture wars. We should listen to their stories, and support them as they find their way forward.

Let’s face it, the Dow is so high not because the economy is great, or even because it is projected to be great soon. It’s mostly inflated out of a combination of easy Fed money for banks, which translates to easy money for people who are already rich, and the fact that world-wide investors are afraid of Europe and are parking their money in the U.S. until the Euro problem gets solved. In other words, that money is going to go away if people decide Europe looks stable, or if the Fed decides to raise interest rates. The latter might happen when the economy (or rather, if the economy) looks better, so putting that together we’re talking about a possible negative stock market response to a positive economic outlook. The stock market has officially become decoupled from our nation’s future.

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tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

George Takei is flawfree.

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