January 2012
79 posts
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thefrogman.me: A Christmas Eve Poem →
thefrogman:
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of…
Online Sales of Louis C. K. Special Cross $1... →
theclearlydope:
This makes me happy. The white man is not going to hold us down any longer.
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Repairing the Damage, Before Roe →
jesteractivist:
Part of the article: I am a retired gynecologist, in my mid-80s. My early formal training in my specialty was spent in New York City, from 1948 to 1953, in two of the city’s large municipal hospitals.
There I saw and treated almost every complication of illegal abortion that one could conjure, done either by the patient herself or by an abortionist — often unknowing, unskilled...
[TW mention of rape] i submitted my testimony... →
stfuconservatives:
mindyradabaugh:
My name is Mindy Radabaugh, and I am a 22 year old college student from Ottawa, Ohio. A few years ago, I was a believer that abortion was wrong. I was always taught that abortion was something horrible. I couldn’t imagine anyone who would be willing to make that decision. I believed that if you weren’t responsible enough to have a child, you didn’t need to...
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“The initiative would protect a prenatal person regardless of whether or not the...”
– A Nevada District Judge decided that the Nevada Prolife Coalition’s description of effect didn’t inform voters well enough. This is the language he required them to use…. because he’s fucking awesome, and he realized the true implications of what a “life and conception” amendment would mean for...
Hunger In America, By The Numbers | ThinkProgress →
17.2 million: The number of households that were food insecure in 2010, the highest number on record. They make up 14.5 percent of households, or approximately one in seven.
48.8 million: People who lived in food insecure households last year.
3.9 million: The number of households with children that were food insecure last year. In 1 percent of households with children, “one or more of the...
#occupywallstreet: kelsium: SOPA Emergency IP... →
kelsium:
SOPA Emergency IP list
anglophonic:
Here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 …