think4yourself

The Business of Higher Ed

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:30:55 -0500

Anyone who is thinking about going into higher education really ought to read these pieces at Lawyers, Guns and Money. It’s grimmer than I wish it was …

And now, Warren Zevon

princesslynn777: A woman discovers her boyfriend’s terrible...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:27:53 -0500

princesslynn777:

A woman discovers her boyfriend’s terrible laundry secret

this is an extremely important video

teachthemhowtothink: Never stop learning.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:08:50 -0500

teachthemhowtothink:

Never stop learning.

nocrimeinthewasteland: sony uploaded an instructional video on...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:28:00 -0500

nocrimeinthewasteland:

sony uploaded an instructional video on how to lend games to your friends, oh my fucking god

This is brilliant

toocooltobehipster: instead of telling same sex parents not to adopt because the kid will get...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:52:07 -0500

toocooltobehipster:

instead of telling same sex parents not to adopt because the kid will get bullied, we should tell straight parents to teach their kids not to bully

"Education about consent can start before education about sex. If we teach our children to respect..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:52:04 -0500

“Education about consent can start before education about sex. If we teach our children to respect others, they’ll grow into respectful adults.”

- webelieveyou.tumblr.com (in relation to this post)

YES THANK YOU

(via our-lady-of-misandry)

"Toymakers will tell you they won’t sell enough, and movie people will point to the two terrible..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:47:23 -0500

“Toymakers will tell you they won’t sell enough, and movie people will point to the two terrible superheroine movies that were made and say, You see? It can’t be done. It’s stupid, and I’m hoping The Hunger Games will lead to a paradigm shift. It’s frustrating to me that I don’t see anybody developing one of these movies. It actually pisses me off. My daughter watched The Avengers and was like, “My favorite characters were the Black Widow and Maria Hill,” and I thought, Yeah, of course they were. I read a beautiful thing Junot Diaz wrote: “If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.””

- Joss Whedon (via hermionejg)

"Free speech is the right to speak your mind without government censorship and without fear of..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:44:57 -0500

“Free speech is the right to speak your mind without government censorship and without fear of extralegal retaliation like harassment or violence. That’s all!

Free speech doesn’t include the right to speak your mind on any forum anywhere. The government may not prevent you from speaking, but private parties, like blog owners or corporations, aren’t required to let you use their property as your platform.

Free speech doesn’t include the right to be believed or to be taken seriously. People may mock, ridicule or laugh at what you say, or they may reject it outright.

Free speech doesn’t include the right to be listened to. People who don’t desire to hear your opinion can hang up on you, block you on social media, change the channel, close the browser tab. Free speech doesn’t give you the right to bombard people with harassing messages or otherwise force them to pay attention to you against their will.

And free speech doesn’t include the right to suffer no consequences whatsoever for your expressed opinions.”

- Free Speech vs. Freeze Peach (via brute-reason)

Because so many people remain woefully ignorant of this fact.

(via thisisrapeculture)

And not everywhere in the world guarantees a right to free speech anyway.

(via sexistfacebookdudes)

kissing-whiskey: Funding this volunteer trip would be a hell of a lot easier if I were...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:44:33 -0500

kissing-whiskey:

Funding this volunteer trip would be a hell of a lot easier if I were religious.

People don’t like it when you do good things just for the sake of being good. They want me to tell them I’m bringing folks the word of Jesus… and well I just refuse to lie about that.

Even more reason to donate in my opinion

annaverity: mariavontraphouse: “im an atheist” said the atheist atheistly while being an atheist...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:40:53 -0500

annaverity:

mariavontraphouse:

“im an atheist” said the atheist atheistly while being an atheist just in case you forgot the atheist was an atheist

Meanwhile, Christians make a point to wear a dead guy hung on a cross around their necks, spend an entire day with ash on their forehead, and enjoy telling people like me that we’re going to burn in hell, so.

"I just don’t know any longer what I’m supposed to think about a political movement whose primary..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:40:07 -0500

“I just don’t know any longer what I’m supposed to think about a political movement whose primary raison d’être, one they no longer even bother to conceal, is an almost gleeful immiseration of the poor for the benefit of the rich. How is it that the wealthiest country on earth has come to this?”

- Kevin Drum, on the cruelty of the Republican party.

Why would you want to end SNAP in this economy? Even in the best times, you need food assistance programs. But in hard times?

Republicans kick you when you’re down, then complain you can’t get up quick enough. They want perpetual poverty. Bastards.

(via liberalsarecool)

Politicalprof: Well, the Democrats have abetted, and for the very same reason the Republicans have sold out: they were (very) well paid to do so.

—the thing is, as we have reformed the income tax code in a way that enriches the rich (and it does, since cuts in tax rates benefit the rich far more than the middle and working classes), we have given them ever-larger amounts of money to lobby government to promote their class interests. The real reason we have SuperPACS and 501c4s is that there are people with enough money to fund them. From which basis they then lobby for things like destroying public pensions, eviscerating public services, reduction in services to the poor … and tax cuts for the rich.

—it’s really not that complicated

(via politicalprof)

niknak79: You have a valid argument a win for logic in...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:39:54 -0500

niknak79:

You have a valid argument

a win for logic in advertising

cosmic-nerd-angel: If Sherlock was an animated show. I took...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:47:50 -0500

cosmic-nerd-angel:

If Sherlock was an animated show.

I took random screencaps from A Scandal in Belgravia and redrew them as cartoons.

Amelia Jo, The Girl Who Lived

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:48:24 -0500

Amelia Jo, The Girl Who Lived

cream-and-stars: bigmamaunikorn: picturesque-scene: they saw...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:35:39 -0500

cream-and-stars:

bigmamaunikorn:

picturesque-scene:

they saw the chance

they took the chance

I FUCKING LIVE FOR THIS. Journalists live for this.

Heard about it on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Couldn’t believe it. And yet: here it is.

janeturenne: humancastiel: tonysboypussy: blueisacolour: WHO...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:34:46 -0500

janeturenne:

humancastiel:

tonysboypussy:

blueisacolour:

WHO SAID IT WAS OK TO POST SOMETHING THIS HORRIBLE!??!??

hahah wow brb straddling a fencepost

My first reaction was ‘Nice thought but there’s no way, Coulson is much younger than…’ and then I stopped mid-thought.

Because you know what.

You know what.

After Steve, the US government had to keep trying to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum.

And who

and who

would be the FIRST DAMN PERSON IN LINE to volunteer?

They told us it never worked again. And that was kind of true. They never again recreated the super-strength or the gleaming pecs. But other things, they got right. They got the vastly delayed aging. And the kind of reflexes that make a man able to take out two armed thugs with a bag of flour. And the talent for leading through example. And they got the most important part, Erskine’s favorite part: the magnification of moral fiber, taking the loyalty and selflessness of a loyal and selfless man and making him into something spectacular.

Coulson didn’t buy those vintage cards on Ebay.

He’s had them since he was a little boy.

That little boy right there.

h-ella: hola-caracol-gr: consultingsuperhusbands: glorzsz: Ow...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:31:03 -0500

h-ella:

hola-caracol-gr:

consultingsuperhusbands:

glorzsz:

Oww

do you know how happy these make me

thisss

AD

bbcone: Twitter reacts to news of Matt Smith leaving...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:30:10 -0500

bbcone:

Twitter reacts to news of Matt Smith leaving #DoctorWho: http://on.fb.me/148wUkd . We’ll be adding more to the gallery, include #Thank You Matt.

Watson and Pokemon…why not

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:03:41 -0500

Watson and Pokemon…why not

silveralida: tomhiddleston-h: We’re all going to be like No...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:41:28 -0500

silveralida:

tomhiddleston-h:

We’re all going to be like

No guys seriously.

During the Mishapocalypse, My friend who works with tumblr had to wake up at 3 am to help make sure that the servers didn’t crash.

Fandoms can break tumblr and November is going to be a long month.