Miss Universe

So, last evening was the Miss World pageant, also it was won by Miss USA Olivia Culpo. USA! etc. This really is something which I normally wouldn't even mention, aside from the truth that, since you may recall, Culpo won Miss USA after giving a trans*-positive answer when requested (the bullshit question) whether she thought it might be fair if your trans* lady won.So yay on her and yay for all of us all.

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by homemade candle lights.Suggested Reading through:WJAC: [Content Note: Violence guns] Four dead in Blair County, Pennsylvania, Shooting Three military InjuredPeter: The 2012 Top List Nobody Wants to see [Content Note: Violence neglect.]Imara: We Can Not Fix Our Economy Without Facing Whitened SupremacyNikole: No Sting: Feds Will not Go Undercover to Prove Housing DiscriminationAndy: Chuck Hagel Apologizes for 'Insensitive' Anti-Gay Remarks States He's Dedicated to Open Service, LGBT Military FamiliesJennifer: Indonesia Declaration Provides a Progressive Vision for World's YouthFMF News: Gender Gap Drastically Increases After MotherhoodAmantha: War Widows Struggle Under Patriarchal TraditionsLiving ~400lbs: "Exactly what is a project for a dangerously obese lady?"Emjb via Libby Anne: How Fetuses Are MadeFuck Yeah Parks and Rec: Flush TonesTDW: Gangnam Style Reaches ONE BILLION ViewsNick: There should have been minimalism for the reason that old silk hat they found. Leave your links and proposals in comments...

John Kerry Nominated as Secretary of State

Leader Obama has formally nominated Senator John Kerry to exchange Hillary Clinton as Secretary of Condition. Okay. I've no particular feelings about this. I am disappointed in the manner it went lower, regarding Susan Grain being chased from the running by a lot of Republican dipshits. But Kerry is going to be fine.Chipsticks in the Obama Diary amusingly observes: "Ain't existence funny? To consider in 2004 an 'unknown' Obama was [then Democratic presidential nominee] John Kerry's keynote convention speaker."

John Kerry Nominated as Secretary of State

Leader Obama has formally nominated Senator John Kerry to exchange Hillary Clinton as Secretary of Condition. Okay. I've no particular feelings about this. I am disappointed in the manner it went lower, regarding Susan Grain being chased from the running by a lot of Republican dipshits. But Kerry is going to be fine.Chipsticks in the Obama Diary amusingly observes: "Ain't existence funny? To consider in 2004 an 'unknown' Obama was [then Democratic presidential nominee] John Kerry's keynote convention speaker."

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by homemade candle lights.Suggested Reading through:WJAC: [Content Note: Violence guns] Four dead in Blair County, Pennsylvania, Shooting Three military InjuredPeter: The 2012 Top List Nobody Wants to see [Content Note: Violence neglect.]Imara: We Can Not Fix Our Economy Without Facing Whitened SupremacyNikole: No Sting: Feds Will not Go Undercover to Prove Housing DiscriminationAndy: Chuck Hagel Apologizes for 'Insensitive' Anti-Gay Remarks States He's Dedicated to Open Service, LGBT Military FamiliesJennifer: Indonesia Declaration Provides a Progressive Vision for World's YouthFMF News: Gender Gap Drastically Increases After MotherhoodAmantha: War Widows Struggle Under Patriarchal TraditionsLiving ~400lbs: "Exactly what is a project for a dangerously obese lady?"Emjb via Libby Anne: How Fetuses Are MadeFuck Yeah Parks and Rec: Flush TonesTDW: Gangnam Style Reaches ONE BILLION ViewsNick: There should have been minimalism for the reason that old silk hat they found. Leave your links and proposals in comments...

Daily Dose of Cute

We've got just a little snow.Sophie is remaining cordially ensconced in her own mattress."No thanks.Inch

Miss Universe

So, last evening was the Miss World pageant, also it was won by Miss USA Olivia Culpo. USA! etc. This really is something which I normally wouldn't even mention, aside from the truth that, since you may recall, Culpo won Miss USA after giving a trans*-positive answer when requested (the bullshit question) whether she thought it might be fair if your trans* lady won.So yay on her and yay for all of us all.

12.21.12

Simple

[Content Note: Guns disablism.]This piece by Adam Gopnik for that New Yorker concerning the simple means to fix preventing gun violence is fairly great (even though it does start adding some disablist language from the "using sane/crazy as synonyms for decent/indecent" sort).I absolutely accept the idea: You will find complex institutional failures contributing someone to get a gun and begin shooting, however the simplest and many sensible factor to repair is use of guns. And That I can make a side observe that, despite Scotland's very tight gun laws and regulations, individuals who need guns (e.g. maqui berry farmers) have them. This narrative in america that there are not a way to balance serious gun reform against involve possessing rifles for maqui berry farmers, subsistence predators, etc. is bullshit. Obviously that's possible.

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by homemade candle lights.Suggested Reading through:WJAC: [Content Note: Violence guns] Four dead in Blair County, Pennsylvania, Shooting Three military InjuredPeter: The 2012 Top List Nobody Wants to see [Content Note: Violence neglect.]Imara: We Can Not Fix Our Economy Without Facing Whitened SupremacyNikole: No Sting: Feds Will not Go Undercover to Prove Housing DiscriminationAndy: Chuck Hagel Apologizes for 'Insensitive' Anti-Gay Remarks States He's Dedicated to Open Service, LGBT Military FamiliesJennifer: Indonesia Declaration Provides a Progressive Vision for World's YouthFMF News: Gender Gap Drastically Increases After MotherhoodAmantha: War Widows Struggle Under Patriarchal TraditionsLiving ~400lbs: "Exactly what is a project for a dangerously obese lady?"Emjb via Libby Anne: How Fetuses Are MadeFuck Yeah Parks and Rec: Flush TonesTDW: Gangnam Style Reaches ONE BILLION ViewsNick: There should have been minimalism for the reason that old silk hat they found. Leave your links and proposals in comments...

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by homemade candle lights.Suggested Reading through:WJAC: [Content Note: Violence guns] Four dead in Blair County, Pennsylvania, Shooting Three military InjuredPeter: The 2012 Top List Nobody Wants to see [Content Note: Violence neglect.]Imara: We Can Not Fix Our Economy Without Facing Whitened SupremacyNikole: No Sting: Feds Will not Go Undercover to Prove Housing DiscriminationAndy: Chuck Hagel Apologizes for 'Insensitive' Anti-Gay Remarks States He's Dedicated to Open Service, LGBT Military FamiliesJennifer: Indonesia Declaration Provides a Progressive Vision for World's YouthFMF News: Gender Gap Drastically Increases After MotherhoodAmantha: War Widows Struggle Under Patriarchal TraditionsLiving ~400lbs: "Exactly what is a project for a dangerously obese lady?"Emjb via Libby Anne: How Fetuses Are MadeFuck Yeah Parks and Rec: Flush TonesTDW: Gangnam Style Reaches ONE BILLION ViewsNick: There should have been minimalism for the reason that old silk hat they found. Leave your links and proposals in comments...

Daily Dose of Cute

A Portrait of Watch Dog and never-Watch Dog.

Open Thread: Connecticut School Shooting

[Content Note: Guns violence terrorism.]The prior thread was beginning to obtain lengthy and unwieldy with updates. This is a fresh thread for discussion and knowledge discussing. I'll make updates came from here forward in comments.Please be certain to keep up with the recommendations from the safe space. Also: As I realize many articles significant updates will contain photos of sufferers/witnesses, I am likely to request that people not publish or link individual photos of sufferers within this thread for that reasons of talking about the photos. No sufferers/witnesses have agreed to obtain their photos taken. I understand nobody here would share all of them with not undiluted empathy and empathy, but nevertheless, I do not feel better about connecting towards the images. I can not make a worse factor than other people gawking at me within my grief.

Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Rape culture description of sexual violence.]"I am not really a doctor, but I will tell you something: If a person does not wish to have intercourse, your body shuts lower. Your body won't permit that to occur unless of course lots of damage is caused, and that we heard nothing about this within this situation."—California Superior Court Judge Derek Manley, throughout a situation about "a guy who threatened to mutilate the face area and genital area of his ex-girlfriend having a heated screwdriver, beat her having a metal baton making other violent risks before carrying out rape, forced dental copulation, along with other crimes." It had been Judge Johnson's estimation the victim "did not set up a battleInch throughout her assault, because her vagina wasn't "shredded," and that he sentenced the attacker to simply six years, "saying that is what the situation was 'worth.'"In reaction, the California Commission on Judicial Performance chosen 10- yesterday to impose a public admonishment of Manley.He ought to be taken off the bench. For fuck's sake.

Open Thread: Connecticut School Shooting

[Content Note: Guns violence terrorism.]The prior thread was beginning to obtain lengthy and unwieldy with updates. This is a fresh thread for discussion and knowledge discussing. I'll make updates came from here forward in comments.Please be certain to keep up with the recommendations from the safe space. Also: As I realize many articles significant updates will contain photos of sufferers/witnesses, I am likely to request that people not publish or link individual photos of sufferers within this thread for that reasons of talking about the photos. No sufferers/witnesses have agreed to obtain their photos taken. I understand nobody here would share all of them with not undiluted empathy and empathy, but nevertheless, I do not feel better about connecting towards the images. I can not make a worse factor than other people gawking at me within my grief.

Learned Hatred

[Content Note: Racism.]I spent the mid-day in the doctor's office, for additional tests with this ongoing whatever I have got leading to me chronic exhaustion. It had been a loooooooong stretch within the waiting room, however i was stored entertained by two wee siblings, most likely age range 4 and a pair of, who had the best personas and were natural comics. It had been a present they inherited using their mother, who corralled and scolded them within the most amusing way. At some point, a mature lady and that i lost our fight controlling laughter and exploded into gales of giggles in the trades between your boys as well as their mother, and that we apologized to her—"I am so sorry! They are so cute!"—but their mother was laughing, too.Another lady arrived together with her toddler, and that he immediately desired to wriggle from her arms to experience using the siblings, which she happily obliged. They welcomed him immediately, and much more silliness ensued.Shortly after that, two more wee siblings, an infant along with a boy about 5, putting on a Superman shirt and sporting a Kool-Aid stained face, showed up. Superman became a member of another boys in a children's table within the waiting room, and that he introduced themself and requested their names. It had been this type of formal little exchange: "Hi, I am Superman! What's your title?" And when the introductions have been made, all of them confabbed until they found consensus by what game they desired to play.Moms and Grandmas smiled their way, and also at me and also the older lady watching, because they performed together.Let me tell you the first couple of siblings are black. The 2nd boy is Latino. The 2nd set of siblings are whitened. And not one of them gave a flying shit about this.In the other finish from the waiting room, there is a middle-aged whitened lady grumpily and noisally completing documents, and from time to time searching for to be able to make choice about parents who'd let their kids watch cleaning soap operas with sexual content. As though the mother and father selected as to the station work had the tv switched. As though the children were having to pay the smallest little bit of focus on the tv.She reached the part around the form where it requested her to point her race, and revealed a commentary about needing to identify like a "non-Hispanic whitened.""Why can't they simply say whitened? America gets so blah blah blah. Individuals people blah blah blah." You realize. The typical.All of us faithfully overlooked her.I switched my face farther away from the seem of her bitter voice and viewed the boys who have been playing together and attempted to not cry when i considered how their world had been trying to socialize them from the natural affinity they'd found.

Daily Dose of Cute

This iz mah srs face.

Fuck Pranks

[Content Note: Pranking/bullying self-harm.]I have written before about how exactly I personally don't like the fuck from pranks, which so far as I am concerned are a kind of bullying, which story is, when the particulars of the story are accurate, the worst possible consequence of a "amusing prank."The particulars are these: Two Australian radio DJs known as a healthcare facility where pregnant Duchess Kate Middleton was remaining earlier within the week, plus they pretended to become the Full and Prince Charles. The nurse who clarified moved the phone call to Kate's room, in which the DJs could determine some good info about Kate's condition and care, that they then broadcast.The DJs heavily marketed their awesome prank, and also the call went viral, leading to lots of embarrassment for that hospital (even though the Structure was apparently very understanding) but for the nurse who placed the phone call (even though the hospital defended her).The nurse, a married mother of two sons, has committed suicide.Well. Hopefully was well worth the laugh.

Photo of the Day

In the Telegraph's Pictures during the day for six December 2012: An uncommon sundog is observed in heaven above Burqin County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region in western China. A sundog is definitely an atmospheric phenomenon triggered by ice deposits on the horizon, leading to vibrant spots of sunshine, frequently inside a luminous ring or halo on each side from the sun. [HAP/Rex Features]

Quote of the Day

"Basically did know, I would not let you know.Inch—Former Leader Bill Clinton, when requested whether his wife, Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton, will run for leader in 2016.Because whenever a lady does not provide you with what you would like once you badger her directly and openly bully her passive-strongly, the very best factor to complete is attract her husband.This, around in our the almighty Jesus Johnson two 1000 and twelve. Inform us what's inside your wife's mind, mister!That's fucking gross when it is a salesperson who will not request us a direct question and rather asks Iain, like he's my owner and may read my thoughts. When it is the Secretary of Condition receiving treatment this way...Wow ,. OMG.

Question of the Day

What'sOrwas for supper?Tuna fish touches and celery here. Type of a strange one, I suppose, lol.

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

The 4 Seasons: "December, 1963 (Oh, Exactly what a Evening)"

Discussion Thread: Why We Need Feminism

[Content Note: Rape culture.]Earlier today, the comedian Wendy Liebman, whom I follow on Twitter, retweeted this from singer and activist Chely Wright:Something to consider twitter.com/chelywright/st…&mdash Chely Wright (@chelywright) November 30, 2012If you cannot begin to see the image, it is a photo of the youthful whitened lady supporting a handwritten sign reading through: "I want feminism because my college shows 'How to prevent Getting Raped' rather than 'Don't Rape' at freshmen orientation."It helped me think about all of the reasons I want feminism, that is concurrently overwhelming (that is my positive spin on "discouraging") and strengthening.Now I place it for you: Why do you want feminism?

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Bow Wow Wow: "I Would Like Chocolate"

Daily Dose of Cute

"So why do we've a lot of remote controls?"

The Puppy Room!

For a lot of college students, faculty, and staff, it is the Most Not-Wonderful Season: Finals! This season, Dalhousie College includes a solution: the pup Room. Dalhousie College in Halifax is popping with a large, slobbery experts to assist students cope with the strain of approaching exams. A student union is opening a Puppy Room on Tuesday where students can spend time with several dogs, including Roc, a St. Bernard who is surely a therapy dog. "They comes in and sit lower, they are able to pat the dogs, speak with the dogs," stated his owner, Mark Grant. "That's our hope – the dogs brings just as much comfort towards the people that we are likely to meet because the people brings towards the dogs." Roc is going to be became a member of by other dogs, together with a Dalmatian along with a golden retriever. "Many of the people who we are likely to enjoy seeing most likely have dogs home. They miss their dogs, and would like to hug your dog,Inch stated Grant. I hereby decree that schools and places of work must have a Puppy Room. World: allow it to be so! (Until we obtain that factor going, though, this is a virtual version. No final exams needed.) The Whizzing Puppy! Food-Seeking Counter-Jumping Beagle! Tap-Dancing Corgi! An Very Excited Basset! The Truly Amazing Beagle Escape!

Attack at Casper College

[Content note: mass shooting, deaths] You will find reviews of the shooting at Casper College in Wyoming. Although details are still unclear, recent reviews indicate that three individuals have died consequently. It's being reported like a bow-and-arrow attack. Based on updates in the college's Facebook page, a lockdown continues to be lifted, but personnel not associated with the attack happen to be urged to visit home and advisors are for sale to individuals who require them. You will see a briefing at 1.30 PM local time, which is live streamed here. ETA: The briefing occured at 1 PM. My ideas and sympathies are with your family and buddies from the deceased, in addition to using the campus community who coping this horrible situation. Don't hesitate to make use of the comments as a spot for discussion, being careful with content notes along with other measures to keep this like a safe space. Update: The neighborhood newspaper comes with an update here which verifies the attacker is probably the deceased. (h/t Shaker Teaspoon, in comments.)