June 2011
“To listen to poor people, to talk about poverty, is to admit that there is...”
– s.e. smith (via thirdw0rld)
May 2011
In Pictures: Slave Lake - Two Weeks Later →
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““At some point in your adult life, you’ve probably walked into a party and felt...”
– Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby
If I was Oprah I would buy 10 billion copies of this book (Screw Inner Beauty/Lessons from the Fatosphere) and distribute them everywhere.
(via definatalie)
I think I’ve reblogged this before but need to again because it is so, so, so filled with ultimate truth.
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“Memorial day is from the men who worked hard to keep up your welfare cheque. GO...”
– sweet nonsensical comments on the internet: CNN Tupac Article Edition (via littleorphanammo)
“Personally, none of this makes me feel betrayed by Barack Obama. Rather I have a...”
– Ten years after No Logo, Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken over America The Guardian (via somethingchanged)
tesslynch:
the helio sequence — everyone knows...
Who actually came up with the heart state idea in... →
soupsoup:
Hint: It doesn’t appear to be the person many are defending on social media against Urban Outfitters.
James Avery has a similar design that dates back to 2004
Here’s where things get complicated.
We need to remember what's important in life:...
— LESLIE, Parks And Recreation
What I Learned In Joplin
thedeadline:
I’m going to write this in a stream of consciousness, the same way I experienced Joplin.
It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the tornadoes in North Carolina in April, and then the tornadoes in Alabama earlier this month. But the timing wasn’t right.
This time, it...
Soup: Not cool Urban Outfitters, not cool. →
thepunchbowl:
imakeshinythings:
One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link.
And here is my United/World of Love line:
My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job….
UGH this makes me SO ANGRY! Please re-post and spread the word. It really hurts when an independent...
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Watchnudawn:
Bridesmaids Outtakes - You want to watch this.
SUZI WEISS-FISCHMANN →
mar-see-ah:
Ever wonder who the Suzi behind all those great OPI shades (Suzi Skis the Pyrenees [a favorite], Suzi Sells Sushi by the Sea Shore, Suzi Says Feng Shui, Suzi Takes the Wheel [upcoming America collection - cannot wait for this one])?
She’s the Artistic Director and a badass. Here’s her OPI bio.
50% of Americans Couldn't Come Up with $2,000 in... →
jakke:
Nearly half of Americans are living in a state of “financial fragility,” a new paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research reveals. To determine this statistic, researchers from the George Washington School of Business, Princeton University, and Harvard Business School asked survey participants whether they would be able to come up with $2,000 for an “unexpected expense in the...
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Hey good lookin'
-rosasparks-:
You know?
Any person who tells someone else to lighten up because being catcalled, on the street or anywhere in fact, is a table.
The idea that being sized to the sum of your ass/bewbs/my neck/my back (sorry) is just ridiculous. If that jerkwad thinks that, somehow, it’s complimentary to be yelled at while walking down the street, then let’s try this.
SURE! It’s totally great to...
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was...”
– —Rebecca Solnit’s response to the recent rape allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the International Monetary Fund’s role in creating mass poverty and economic injustice. (via thenationmagazine)
Yes yes yes (via how-to-kiss-distinctly-american)
