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November 7

Wal-Mart bans gay couple for NOT shoplifting

This is fucked-up.

I'm totally outraged....but at least proud to say I live in a district whose representative voted NO on the Stupak Amendment.

twofish:

Thanks for trying to protect my rights, Gwen Moore.

Ditto.

PostSecret: Sunday Secrets

Excedrin for Your Racial Tension Headache. (via Feministing)

Snowy Grill Totally Looks Like Karl Lagerfeld

November 6

Anti-choicers treat the whole process of reproduction as if getting pregnant is a rare and precious event, like finding a giant lump of gold in your backyard, and as if nature was stingy about attempts to create life. If this was true, they might have more of a reason to get offended at attempts to control when you give birth. But outside of those people who suffer from infertility (in which case, they have every reason to grab onto every chance at childbirth that comes along), the biological fact of the matter is that our reproductive systems are all about waste, all about killing billions in order to save the few that have the best shot.

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“What If My Mother Had Aborted Me?” (via katedanger)

November 5

Mystery of Argleton, the 'Google' town that only exists online - Telegraph

Paper town!

Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries - Boing Boing

The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee: Four Kittens and a Feather Wand

The best part is at 1:29.

gabrielle union on the richmond gang rape:

abbyjean:

I’m sad more than anything. After googling the gang rape story in Richmond and reading comments on blogs, it just leaves me sickened and really sad. The fact that race and socio-economics have been used to explain away a brutal gang rape…just sad…maybe I just have seen every kind of rapist and survivor…every race, color, religion, socio-economic status group…it’s all the same…a lack of regard for violence against women. Tolerated, and in this case encouraged by the mob surrounding the perps…laughing, joking and taking pics.

When I was 19 years old, I was raped. I was working at a shoe store in California, and the store was robbed. The person robbing the store ended up putting a gun to my head and raping me. As he was raping me, I felt as though I was floating over myself, thinking, ‘This isn’t happening.’ I blanked out and had an out-of-body experience, like I was hovering above seeing this horrible thing happen to someone else…not me. I was fortunate enough to go the UCLA rape crisis center after this horrific ordeal. It gave me my life back. My dignity and self-esteem were gone and they helped me find them again.

That’s why I now lobby for state legislatures across the country and the federal government to help raise funds and awareness for rape crisis centers, and I speak to all different kinds of people across the country about what happened to me. My goal is to never hear the words ‘me too’ from someone after I say ‘I was raped.’ (shakes)

My goal is to never hear the words ‘me too’ from someone after I say ‘I was raped.’

(via *lalalaurie)

ZooBorns: The Everland Zoo’s Adorable Fennec Fox Kits

You’re welcome.

ZooBorns: Ripley… Believe It or Not!

Whoo?

November 4

FAIL Blog

November 3

Quiz: Kishi Creation or Fashionista Flop?

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