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This Cat Care article at Cracked made me lol so freaking hard.

sandwichesandpie:

(I might just be easily amused, though).

“Many cats, especially when young, do not fully grasp the concept of burying their work and may try creative variants such as stepping in it, burying a completely unsoiled adjacent patch of litter, or pawing retardedly at the side of the litterbox.”

hey, kitsune made it in here!

“Trimming the claws regularly also keeps them blunt which is good for when the cat decides to climb Mount You. While having its nails trimmed, the cat may scream like it is dying, which is just inexcusable whining.”

“You also have a choice of cat color. The least chosen color is black. Why do people hate black cats? Because they’re racists. Pick a black cat.”

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stuff white people do: slip past security more easily

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The HijiNKS Ensue Store — Team Edward [James Olmos] T-Shirt

December 2

I’m still confused about why Jessica is so nasty. She was Bella’s first friend, and now, just because Bella likes to slowly walk toward bars in Port Angeles, she hates her. I hate Bella too, but at least I have my reasons. (I hate people whose names are also stupid questions. “Is a bell a swan?” Of course it isn’t!)

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SparkLife » Blogging New Moon: Part 9

tee hee

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atticus_flinch: в ролях

aww, those crazy kids.

click through for way more awesomeness.

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In hours of searching, I found no single plan that would cover standard maternity care for a woman in rural Colorado.

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Pregnant in Colorado? One Reporter’s Search (and Failure) to Find Maternity Coverage | RHRealityCheck.org

Read the whole thing; this is ridiculous. I can’t imagine being a pregnant woman in that situation.

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Tiger Woods admits transgressions: That would be ‘sin’ for you and me

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USA Today headline

Dear USA Today,

You’re an asshole.

Love, me

December 1

The women who genuinely can’t afford $500 bucks for an abortion are the women closest to the poverty line. Those women will be covered by Medicare, and they won’t get abortion coverage anyway in most states.

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megan mcardle at the atlantic, a major magazine that presumably employs fact-checkers.

see, medicare is an insurance program. you become eligible for it by paying into the system via payroll taxes, similar to paying regular premiums for insurance. then, when you turn 65 or become disabled, you get access to the insurance that you’ve paid for over the years.

then there’s medicaid. it’s a welfare program, because eligibility is determined by income and asset levels, rather than by work history. there are no premiums or payroll taxes that you pay in order to get medicaid coverage.

so women close to the poverty line would likely be eligible for medicaid, not medicare. unless there are a whole lot of women over 65 (the majority of medicare recipients) who cannot afford but want abortions, this is a massive mix up.

YOU NOW KNOW MORE THAN MEGAN MCARDLE REGARDING FEDERAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS. which is nice for you and too bad for the atlantic who employs her to write about such matters.

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I heart abbyjean.

(via sexartandpolitics)

Me too.

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naked people should not say dude

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puppy break!

November 30

robot-heart:

winter wonderland (via i.Anton)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

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If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average job-seeker has spent looking for work — is more than six months, the highest level since the 1930s. You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There’s a pervasive sense in Washington that nothing more can or should be done, that we should just wait for the economic recovery to trickle down to workers. This is wrong and unacceptable.

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Paul Krugman (via azspot) (via unburyingthelead)

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I, for one, find it appalling/discouraging/soul-sucking the amount of time people spend at work these days. It’s bad for health, bad for relationships, bad for kids, bad for pets, bad for neighborhoods, bad for homes and gardens and arts and other expressions of our less linear selves — essentially bad for all the things we “work” for. Meanwhile we’re told that Americans are fat and sedentary, drive angry, let TV raise our kids, shoot each other at astonishing rates, don’t read enough, and feel alienated? No kidding.

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Carolyn Hax: Let’s dump the extended workday - washingtonpost.com

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This Cat Care article at Cracked made me lol so freaking hard.

stuff white people do: slip past security more easily

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)