February 2012
12 posts
The Political Notebook: Fact-checking the debate... →
I never even thought to question this claim (why I dimwittedly didn’t is a subject for another day, I think). Though this doesn’t actually refute the notion that male combatants might be inclined to be particularly or even recklessly protective of their female colleagues, it does refute the notion that we know for sure one way or the other.
thepoliticalnotebook:
I’ve been told on...
Things I Post to Tumblr in Ascending Order of How...
Pictures that make me smile.
Reblogged memes whose popularity peaked no less than two weeks ago.
Mildly humorous videos everyone has already seen.
Links to the New Yorker that allow me to feel less guilty about never ever reading an entire issue but more guilty about the fact that I feel even the slightest need to try to lay claim to the normative trappings of a mostly shallow kind of public...
Two Maps I've Been Looking at Today
From whorevidal (via fuckyeahcartography):
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From Yo, Is This Racist? "Anonymous asked: It...
Ah, “proper English,” one of the last strongholds of the modern racist. YO, DICKFACE, LISTEN TO ANY TEENAGER OF ANY RACE TALK, IF YOU THINK IT’S ONLY PEOPLE OF ONE RACE OR ANOTHER, YOU ARE A RACIST B-HOLE
The concept of “improper English” makes my blood boil, and not just because it is a type of speech most commonly attributed in the United States to African Americans.*
[Let me...
