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September 28

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September 27

Vincent D'Onofrio leaving "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" after eight seasons

noooooooooooooooooo

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I still don’t think Fran Kranz is as funny as Joss and company think he is (or want him to be), but having the show more overtly question the morality of the Dollhouse - and making Topher have to hear and absorb those questions - he’s becoming less of a wacky sociopath and more of a tragic figure. He’s worked so hard and so fast proving he was the smartest kid in the room that he’s only now coming to realize he should have slowed down to ask “Should I do this?” before he asked “Can I do this?

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What’s Alan Watching?: Dollhouse, “Vows”: Who am I this time?

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littleorphanammo: (via gatekeeper)

herenowthanks!

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breathsoftruth: aaaartstar:

meow meow me-ow me-ow

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On Healthcare and Personal Responsibility

And you know, the reality is, health care costs are skyrocketing out of control. It’s probably not unreasonable, in a logistical sense, to punish the folks more likely to go and be sick (but not to up and die, as they are relatively cheap healthcare recipients) by making them pay more for their coverage (if they’re allowed to have coverage at all). In fact, I have a better idea, one that would likewise save the industry quite a bit of money in healthcare costs.

Let’s just punish all sick people.

It cuts out the middleman. After all, it’s the sick people of all walks of life who are costing the US billions in taxpayer dollars that could be better spent blowing people up halfway around the world. So, henceforth, I propose that anyone who gets sick immediately has their coverage slashed and their premiums raised to pay for all the coverage their stupid sick selves will inevitably require. You’re diagnosed with lung cancer? Tough luck, you irresponsible oxygen-breather. You get critically injured by a drunk driver on your way home from work? Better have your checkbook on you when you get airlifted to the hospital.

Obviously, I’m being glib. It’s a preposterous suggestion. The truth is that this is how insurance works: we all pay, so that thesome of us who require healthcare at any given time can access it. That is the purpose of insurance, to pay into a collective system that we can then draw on if we require it. This means some of us will pay in more than we take out, and some of us will take out far more than we put in. But that’s how insurance operates and how it always has. There’s a term for putting money into a system that only you can access, and only when you want to: it’s called a savings account.

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All the Single Babies

the littlest backup dancer.

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Mr. Usaji’s favorite food is carrots, and his least favorite food is “something that is meaningless.

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Domo (NHK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maureen Johnson is right, this article is awesome.

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My understanding of the definition of rape is that it requires force or the threat of force, so no. Using deception to trick someone into granting consent isn’t quite the same thing.

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Marvel Fail: rape culture apologism from writer, where the hell were the editors?

YES. YES IT FUCKING IS.

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Matthew McConaughey cannot stand up by himself!

September 26

stuff white people do: have an aversion to non-white names

I was at a party recently, talking to a young woman of Korean descent named Hae Sook. We’d just met, and as we were talking, a middle-aged white woman I knew approached us. Since Hae Sook didn’t know her, it was up to me to introduce them.

“Hae Sook, I said, “This is Margaret. Margaret, Hae Sook.”

As I told them a little more about each other, they smiled and shook hands, said “nice to meet you,” and so on.

Then Margaret said, “Your name is really hard to catch! How about if I just call you Helen.”

I didn’t write a question mark at the end of Margaret’s question, because her tone implied that she wasn’t really asking a question. It was more like an announcement, a statement about something that she was going to do from now on.

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I was very jealous of boys as a teenager — not because I wanted to look masculine, but because their puberty, pimples and cracking voices and stink and all, was taking them closer to the adult ideal for their gender. When the “ideal” woman shares characteristics with a prepubescent girl, my normal changes seemed to be taking me away from thinness, cuteness, smallness, and hairlessness and turning me not into the supermodel woman that was the hope and dream, but into a freak who should suck it.

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Purple Primate

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What we are talking about here is access to healthcare. We are talking about mothers and fathers losing their homes and their life savings trying to save their children. We are talking about families helping a loved one to fight cancer. We are talking about people suffering with diabetes, asthma and AIDS. We are not talking about death panels and for God’s sakes we are not talking about Nazi Germany. We are talking about tending to the sick and the poor… does that sound familiar to anyone? You Value Voters out there claim to read the Bible. Maybe you should crack the cover on that one again. You are so damn worried about who is marrying who and what immigrant is getting the best shift at the Taco Bell, but God forbid someone’s suffering doesn’t come with a price tag. Honestly, if I could , I would put the entire Republic party over my knee and give them a good spanking. What does it say about our country if the biggest debate of the decade is no longer about the two wars we are fighting but rather about preventing children and families from having access to affordable healthcare? I’ll tell you what it says to me. It says the Christian Right never really was and Value Voters aren’t very valuable.

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Margaret and Helen (via thesmarttart) (via apsies) (via think4yourself) (via purpleprimate)

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stuff white people do: have an aversion to non-white names