January 2012
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The Most Badass Excerpt From Barney Frank's...
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
Interviewer: I thought you might explain why you support decriminalizing it but don’t smoke it.
Barney Frank: Do you think I’ve ever had an abortion?
December 2011
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Jay Smooth on making pro-choice activism even more... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
Jay Smooth has a few words to say about “Until Abortion Ends,” a site where anti-choicers pledge to give up something they love until abortion becomes illegal all over America. And by “something they love,” it seems they mostly mean “junk food.”
Because nothing says “solidarity with unborn children whom I believe to have souls and full Constitutional rights” like giving...
It was a widely misinterpreted movie, I think…. People tend to say, “Why didn’t...
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) Days of Summer (via theshadowofyoursong)
awesome. i didn’t see the movie, but apparently everyone just thinks it’s a goofy, quirky rom-com and they’ll end up together because he is such a nice guy and simply wants her bad enough.
(via eryntherat)
I watched the first...
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It's like he's a people!
My Christmas gift to myself has been feeding my dog peanut butter on granola bars. I’ll never not be tickled watching those chompers.
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I like to hold myself to an impossible standard of beauty so I don’t notice the...
– Some Women for Some Reason (via hellnope)
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November 2011
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You should date an illiterate girl.
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in...
– Charles Warnke (via jarrodis)
You read the word and without skipping a beat you know what it means. I am so...
– Heteronormative vampires - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Roger Ebert learns the word “heteronormative.” Twilight is just the right example to illustrate.
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My goal is to always come from a place of love, but sometimes you just have to...
– RuPaul (via funkyfest)
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Heterosexual male identity… I don’t want to get too pointy-headed about it, but...
– Dan Savage on why he maintains that the toughest sexual identity is straight male (in an interview by yours truly)
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It actually hadn’t become clear to me how much the discourse had shifted until I...
– Occupy Wall Street is Transforming its Participants, Our Country, and Democracy | | AlterNet (via alternet-working)
I’m having these conversations, too. I don’t “come out” as anti-capitalist. I don’t tell them how to think, I mostly just ask questions. But #OWS has...
October 2011
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