December 2011
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So, just so we’re clear: a 15-year-old who had unprotected sex and knows that...
– Teen Girls Can Suck It: No Morning-After Pill Without Doc’s Consent (via feminismduh)
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Lack of motivation” is a generally misunderstood symptom of depression. It does...
– Maud, There’s Good News and Bad News. And Fat News. (Shakesville)
Wow, I have never seen this phenomenon explained so well and so accurately before.
(via autumnyte, kiriamaya)
Bolding mine for emphasis because DAMN is that ever relevant to my brain.
(via onlytowardschaos)
Fantastic explanation...
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Right now the United States is spending $100 billion a year to invade and occupy...
– Derrick Jensen in Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
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What happens when — and this is inevitable — a generation completely comfortable...
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org (via emptyage)
I think that this is coming, and sooner than we’d like to think. The Boomer generation is already reaching the end of its cultural dominance, and subsequent generations are going to be grappling with copyright issues from a completely different...
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I’m sort of embarrassed by how excited I am when I have new messages on Tumblr…and how bummed out I am when they’re inevitably all spam.
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Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a...
– How Doctors Die by Ken Murray.
This is a lovely, well-written piece that everyone should read.
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The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes... →
realitista:
Obamacare is turning out to be a lot smarter than I thought it was originally.
That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit.
Failure on the part of...
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The Nicest Place On the Internet →
I’m pretty sure that this is actually the nicest place on the internet. I’m only slightly embarrassed that I spent about twenty minutes there.
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To all those men who don't think the rape jokes...
oforganon:
I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something, or connect you to doing something, that, as far as you’re concerned, you’ve never done and would never condone. And they’ve told you about triggers, and PTSD, and how one in six women is a...
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