[Last Updated: April 4th, 2013]I hope all of you readers will enjoy your time here on my painfully simple Tumblr site and enjoy my ever-present dry (and sometimes thoughtfully cynical) and witty humor as well.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
Sarcasm: the ability to insult idiots without them knowing it.
--- The Best Definition Ever
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NFL Week 10 Recap: The One Where Everybody Got Concussions
Brain injuries are no laughing matter, but let’s mock this week’s NFL action anyway.
Well said. Well said indeed.
I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
My name is Ela. I am seventeen years old. I am not Muslim, but my friend told me about her friend being discriminated against for wearing a hijab. So I decided to see the discrimination firsthand to get a better understanding of what Muslim women go through.
My friend and I pinned scarves around our heads, and then we went to the mall. Normally, vendors try to get us to buy things and ask us to sample a snack. Clerks usually ask us if we need help, tell us about sales, and smile at us. Not today. People, including vendors, clerks, and other shoppers, wouldn’t look at us. They didn’t talk to us. They acted like we didn’t exist. They didn’t want to be caught staring at us, so they didn’t look at all.
And then, in one store, a girl (who looked about four years old) asked her mom if my friend and I were terrorists. She wasn’t trying to be mean or anything. I don’t even think she could have grasped the idea of prejudice. However, her mother’s response is one I can never forgive or forget. The mother hushed her child, glared at me, and then took her daughter by the hand and led her out of the store.
All that because I put a scarf on my head. Just like that, a mother taught her little girl that being Muslim was evil. It didn’t matter that I was a nice person. All that mattered was that I looked different. That little girl may grow up and teach her children the same thing.
This experiment gave me a huge wakeup call. It lasted for only a few hours, so I can’t even begin to imagine how much prejudice Muslim girls go through every day. It reminded me of something that many people know but rarely remember: the women in hijabs are people, just like all those women out there who aren’t Muslim.
People of Tumblr, please help me spread this message. Treat Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans, Taoists, etc., exactly the way you want to be treated, regardless of what they’re wearing or not wearing, no exceptions. Reblog this. Tell your friends. I don’t know that the world will ever totally wipe out prejudice, but we can try, one blog at a time.
this is so perfect in absolutely every single way.
The truth, sad though it is.
However, one can only hope…
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Joe Biden’s VP Debate Checklist [Click for full article]
There’s a lot of pressure on ol’ Uncle Joe tonight. And with the future of the country (sort of) on his shoulders, the fella’s gotta stay on track.
- Breathe, smile, and just do what you’ve been practicing. You’ve gotten some great advice over these past few days and you need to STICK TO IT. Ya got this, champ.
- Right off the bat – make jokes, lots of jokes. People are SO wound up and worried about being OFFENDED these days, my GOSH, so just loosen the place UP for Pete’s sake. The one about the Indian and the Rabbi in the hot air balloon is a good start. Gotta get the crowd on your side from the beginning.
- Make sure you look Ryan dead in the eyes with those mean Wilmington peepers and rattle that Midwestern wimp to his core. Don’t be afraid to scare the living bejeezus out of that pretty boy chump. With Mean, Lean Joe Biden looking across the table at him, he’ll crumple like paper. That Delaware grit ain’t there for nothin’, I’ll tell ya that much.
- Be clear, calm, and precise with figures and statistics. Don’t get overexcited and start jumpin’ up and prancin’ around like some sort of San Francisco Ballerina man – my gosh, can you imagine – so just cool it, alright?
- Don’t hold back on calling Rep. Ryan out when he twists the facts (or saying he looks like a weasel with some constipation issues – jeez Louise, Joe, will ya calm down already, save these gems for the STAGE, c’mon man!) Continue reading here
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Joe Biden’s VP Debate Checklist [Click for full article]
There’s a lot of pressure on ol’ Uncle Joe tonight. And with the future of the country (sort of) on his shoulders, the fella’s gotta stay on track.
- Breathe, smile, and just do what you’ve been practicing. You’ve gotten some great advice over these past few days and you need to STICK TO IT. Ya got this, champ.
- Right off the bat – make jokes, lots of jokes. People are SO wound up and worried about being OFFENDED these days, my GOSH, so just loosen the place UP for Pete’s sake. The one about the Indian and the Rabbi in the hot air balloon is a good start. Gotta get the crowd on your side from the beginning.
- Make sure you look Ryan dead in the eyes with those mean Wilmington peepers and rattle that Midwestern wimp to his core. Don’t be afraid to scare the living bejeezus out of that pretty boy chump. With Mean, Lean Joe Biden looking across the table at him, he’ll crumple like paper. That Delaware grit ain’t there for nothin’, I’ll tell ya that much.
- Be clear, calm, and precise with figures and statistics. Don’t get overexcited and start jumpin’ up and prancin’ around like some sort of San Francisco Ballerina man – my gosh, can you imagine – so just cool it, alright?
- Don’t hold back on calling Rep. Ryan out when he twists the facts (or saying he looks like a weasel with some constipation issues – jeez Louise, Joe, will ya calm down already, save these gems for the STAGE, c’mon man!) Continue reading here
Perfect.
LIMBAUGH: Okay, folks, it’s a moment of truth. We are mere hours away now from Tropical Storm Isaac, which everybody is desperately hoping becomes a hurricane. I can’t believe this. They are desperately hoping that it becomes a hurricane. It’s the Democrats’ wet dream that this thing hit New Orleans. So, you know me. My middle name is Solutions. I have some ideas for the Republicans. How to deal with the tropical storm, slash, hurricane hitting New Orleans.
The first thing we do is offer to send 500 bus drivers to New Orleans, paid for by us, to make sure that the buses that were not used by the Democrat mayor during Hurricane Katrina will be used to evacuate people should it become necessary. The second thing that I think the Republicans ought to do is send bags of money instead of sand. Bags full of money to shore up the levees in New Orleans. This would accomplish many things. A, it would show our compassion. B, we could have Romney’s five sons who CNN last night asked, “What’s it like to be rich as sin,” or whatever. They did. Piers Morgan asked Romney’s sons, (paraphrasing) “What’s it like to be stinking rich?” So we have Romney’s five sons deliver the bags of money to shore up the levees.
Now, this will accomplish much. It will show our compassion, and it will do something else. Once we publicize that we have sent 500 bags of money — well, whatever number of bags, bags filled with money to shore up the levees, what will happen? The poor of New Orleans will storm the levees and steal the bags, thereby putting themselves at risk for the eventual flooding that will happen once they remove the bags of money. And that way the Republicans can get rid of even more Democrats in Louisiana and shore up the state for themselves. How about those two ideas, folks? Am I not thinking or am I thinking?
Fuck you, Rush Limbaugh. Fuck you forever, you piece of shit.
It’s amazing- Rush’s ability (or inability?) to be serious. Or maybe it’s so seriously scary and serious that I simply took it as humor (sick as it is at times). Hmm…
It’s all too easy to forget that there’s a human being on the other end of the Internet. That human being has a name. That human being has friends and family; hopes, fears, and dreams. The person behind those words and that avatar is loved by people, and that person loves them in return.
It’s far…
Very good sir, very good.
Martin and Sir Ian McKellen at SDCC [x]
I love how Martin and Sir Ian are making the same sort of duckface in the bottom one.Sir Ian’s duckface more subtle and sophisticated, of course.
Martin’s however…
Gotta love McKellen. :3
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