February 2012
59 posts
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via snowstorminjuly)
Bombadil Goes Boating
effyeahlotr:
The old year was turning brown; the West Wind was calling; Tom caught a beechen leaf in the Forest falling. ‘I’ve caught a happy day blown me by the breezes! Why wait till morrow-year? I’ll take it when me pleases. This day I’ll mend my boat and journey as it chances West down the withy-stream, following my fancies!’
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this is pure fantasy: Some of the 119 Amazing... →
nevver:
5. In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash. 22. Only female mosquitoes will bite you. 35. That thing you use to dot your lowercase “i” is called a tittle. 42. The Arkansas School for the Deaf’s…
Rachel Maddow Says Gay Culture at Risk From... →
This confuses me so much. I thought that the whole crux of pushing for equality essentially meant not being treated any differently than anybody else. And yet now you are unhappy because you are no longer separate? There is no separate but equal. Just equal. If you don’t want to get married, that is one’s personal decision, but don’t make it out to sound like you are a...
