January 2011
18 posts
Yo, President Obama...
saytoday:
ENGLISH AND SOCIAL STUDIES MATTER TOO.
Extreme Parenting
You know you’re an extreme parent if your child, who doesn’t have a documented learning disability, has more than three tutors.
You know you’re an extreme parents if you imagine that your child is going to play professional sports even though no coach has predicted this outcome.
You know you’re an extreme parent if you have your child take thirty practice SATs before the...
PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU'RE TRYING TO LOSE AT LEAST 20...
folie-de-sue:
let’s talk fifty.
I’m going for fifty by the summer, seventy by the end of the summer. GIT ‘ER DONE.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma)
“I want to just advise people watching at home playing that now popular drinking...”
– Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
I want to clarify my stance on heated partisanship:
Generally I’m against it. But if it makes me laugh? Okay.
(via squashed)
This is why I love living in New York - all our politicians are sharp-tongued wiseguys.
Rush Limbaugh just said that "Democrats control 99...
Fantastic.
Holy 2011, Batman!
If I go by the Mayan calendar, I’m a little less than two years away from complete and utter destruction, along with the rest of the human race. Highly unlikely, but it’s fun to think about, eh? It makes you think about what it means to live life to the fullest; taking nothing for granted, never holding back on what you love or what you can do. We all have this one life -...
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein (via saytoday)
“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what...”
“Why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do so many people remain adamant...”
– What Drives Irrational Rhetoric? The Case of Childhood Vaccinations - The Atlantic (via jayparkinsonmd)
The Atlantic strikes again. I’ve been saying this for years: Vaccines do NOT cause autism. You’d think the downfall of the quack that declared this so would change minds, but...
Robert Reich: The Shameful Attack on Public... →
robertreich:
In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers. And in subsequent years millions of public employees across the nation have…
Every time I read a Robert Reich blog post, it’s like I’m reading my...
Insomnia.
You know, the world takes on a whole different perspective when you wake up to pitch-black darkness. I guess my body thought, “Hey, three hours of sleep is enough - I’m gonna startle you awake with a ridiculous nightmare and jump-start your heart with a couple shots of adrenaline for good measure.” Thanks, body. I love you, too.
I find it pretty funny that I still get the...