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Profound and hilarious poetry written by arranging book spines
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All the President’s Men
Pissing in the Snow
With No Fear of Failure
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Down and Out in Beacon Hill: Elizabeth Smart's takedown of abstinence-based education as complete trash is absolutely wonderful.
“It’s feelings of self worth. Feeling like, who would ever want me now? I’m worthless. That’s what it was for me the first time I was raped. I was raised in a very religious household. One that taught that sex was something special that only happened between a husband and wife that loved each…
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Whenever something involves basic math
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The most illuminating questions are simple and specific. In the fall of 2009, I interviewed President and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama about their marriage. My goal was to get them to avoid soundbites, to give honest, unrehearsed answers, and because I had been reporting on them for more than two years at that point, I knew what to avoid and where to go.
I had come to understand that equality was a serious issue in the Obama marriage, and that in the White House, the president and first lady are not treated in the same way at all.
So I summoned up my nerve and asked them, “How do you have an equal marriage when one person is president?”
The first lady immediately made a sound like “hah!” as if she was glad someone was finally asking that question. And then she did something very smart: she let her husband answer the question.
He tried. Barack Obama is normally so eloquent, but he botched his reply three times, stopping and starting over. It was such a hard question to answer — Michelle Obama had been his supervisor at the law firm where they met, and yet she had made sacrifice after sacrifice for him, and now they were living in a world where he was like the sun, with everyone else rotating around him. Finally on the fourth try, he half-joked that his staff was more concerned with satisfying the first lady than satisfying him.
Then Michelle Obama stepped in to rescue him, giving the obvious politic answer: They were equals in their private lives if not in their public lives. The whole exchange was incredibly illuminating.
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Jodi Kantor, New York Times correspondent, Author of The Obamas
“Nine years ago Friday, same-sex marriages started happening in Massachusetts, and the time since then has proved wonderfully unremarkable. The sky has not fallen. The earth has not opened to swallow us up. Thousands of good people, contributing members of our society, have made free decisions about whom to marry. Most have been joyful and lasting. Some have failed. Ho-hum. And even as this principle of government treating people equally spreads to 11 more states and the District of Columbia, even as mean-spirited politicians stoke discord over marriage equality in election years, people just keep on being people, choosing their life partners by the same old mysteries, regardless of sexual orientation. Gays and lesbians, like blacks and whites a generation ago, want nothing more than to be ordinary.”
Governor Deval Patrick
Did you guys know about TietheKnot.org? I sure didn’t, but now that I do we are one bow tie closer to marriage equality.
“Founded by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita, the goal of Tie the Knot is clear: to advocate for the civil rights of gay and lesbian Americans throughout the United States and to look damn good while doing it.”
Public Shaming: Angelina Jolie Undergoes Mastectomy To Avoid Breast Cancer; Losers Mourn Her Boobs, Send Brad Pitt Condolences
In a piece for the New York Times, Angelina Jolie revealed she underwent a preventative double mastectomy. I’m not going to summarize it here because you should hear it coming from her. If you haven’t yet read it, you really should read it right now here.
Angelina Jolie shared a personal…
RIP Humanity. But for reals though, if you are of the opinion that sexism is not a modern concern, click on through for a display on how the tradition is being kept alive.
Poor Brad Pitt, stuck with a woman who’s hoping not to die young. The nerve of Angelina Jolie to take preventative measures to save her own life, and publicize something she could’ve kept private to draw attention to important genetic testing that should be available to those who aren’t über wealthy. The nerve.
“I really like your idea. If we had guns that shot chocolate, not only would our country be safer, it would be happier. People love chocolate. You are a good boy.”
Joe Biden wins at constituent services. This letter, to a Wisconsin second-grader, is so sweet and sad and just right.
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