October 2010
18 posts
Confronting Life (via Good Men Project) →
padaviya:
Aaron Gouveia and his wife were already having the worst day of their lives. Then came the abortion protesters.
“You’re killing your unborn baby!”
That’s what they yelled at me and my wife on the worst day of our lives. As we entered the women’s health center on an otherwise perfect summer morning in Brookline, two women we had never met decided to pile onto the nightmare we had...
lostmustard-deactivated20110424 asked: Could you please delete that photo you reblogged?
Reblog this if you want to be asked something...
lostmustard:
cathairtumbleweeds:
j-ethan:
I’m gonna regret this in the morning.
Ditto.
Okay, sure.
“Gays and lesbians are not allowed to legally marry. Gays and lesbians are not...”
– Dorothy Surrenders: Make it a better place (via thewayshewalks)
“The thing is this. It is not OK to use gay as a pejorative, joking or not. I’m...”
– Richard Lawson (via bluebears)
Silent AJ Speaks: Why James Not Only Deserves Me,... →
silentaj:
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” —Marilyn Monroe
Stumbling across that quote earlier made some things I haven’t been able to fully say bubble up, and now they just have to spew forth.
I am, if I haven’t made...
“It’s pretty hard to teach a kid who has been raised by the television, when he...”
– Robert Freeman (via AZspot), addressing the biggest problem our modern educational system faces: not bad teachers or bad schools, but the downward spiral of poverty and the decimation of the middle class. (via marco)
Today is National Coming Out Day....
sarkastickunt:
I kissed my first girl at 12.
Had sex with a female for the first time at 17.
And fell in love with a woman for the first time when I was 19.
I have never hidden nor denied my sexuality.
I will never lie to my children about it.
I will embrace what ever decisions their hearts make.
And I will love them all equally no matter what.
Love is love. Period.
STFU, Conservatives: Punishment and... →
damekatharsis:
With regard to this post and this quote specifically: “Can you stuff your hang-ups about paternalism so that someone can try to do some good by protecting people from their own (terrible) purchasing decisions?”
I’m not feeling able to articulate myself well today but here…
I love how when the right has something SUGGESTED to them, they get all up in arms, but they just...
World-Shaker: Censorship at its Finest: One... →
world-shaker:
This was originally posted here, but was taken down by the author due to too many readers contacting (harassing) the author’s former superintendent and school district. With respect, this story is too important to die. Please don’t abuse this by contacting the district. If you wish to respect…
