February 2012
36 posts
Gay Judge Refuses To Marry Straight Couples →
Dallas judge Tonya Parker says she won’t conduct any marriage ceremonies until she and every other gay person in Texas have the same right to marry. When she turns straight couples away, Parker tells them: “I’m sorry. I don’t perform marriage ceremonies because we are in a state that does not have marriage equality, and until it does, I am not going to partially apply the law to one group of...
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library....”
– Lady Bird Johnson (via ourpresidents)
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blamscuits:
do you ever do something really stupid and then you just sit there every night for weeks and think about how stupid it was
the other night I actually caught myself obsessing about something stupid I did when I was in COLLEGE. that was TEN YEARS AGO! it wasn’t even a major thing, it was just a minor thing!
I think about how I did something mean and petty in 2nd...
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January 2012
27 posts
The Long, Dark Tea-Time of a Librarian's Soul:... →
iggyjack:
dagseoul:
You won’t like this, but too bad.
For centuries white people have developed a sense of modernity with an ideal that looks like an educated, modest, upwardly mobile, Christian, white male. That’s a fact.
For centuries, non-white, not-male bodies have been the…
“I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not...”
– Margaret Atwood looks back at writing The Handmaid’s Tale. (via thebronzemedal)
All of which add to the realistic horror of the book.
“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– Pres. Obama vowing to protect abortion rights in a press release today (via nowaitninjas)
(I will never understand how the republicans can claim to be the party of “small government” when they want to intrude into people’s lives on a family, and worse, bodily level.-S)
“It’s treating a woman politely
As long as she isn’t a fright:...”
– Chivalry by Alice Duer Miller
How To Get Over Your Mid-Winter Reading Slump →
Reading slump so bad.