Woman Member of the Secret Service, Olive H. Doyle
Photo: Emma Straub’s nightstand
“I’m a fairly monogamous reader. The only time I’ll double up is if I’m reading something really heavy that I don’t want to carry around with me all day, but even then I’ll almost always suck it up and take it with me. And I’m not that fast, either — I think I read about fifty books last year, which is really paltry amount compared to some booksellers and super-readers I know.” (via Emma Straub! Fun Thing Day 65 « The Pencil Box)
Me too! I considered myself a fast and high-volume reader, in fact, until I started working in bookstores. Y’all are book demons, in the best way.
The ad currently on my site links to a Donate to Newt Gringrich’s campaign site. Wtf. No. Just fucking No. Fuck that shit. Google, FOR SHAME.
"There is no single variable we can point to that suggests someone is “really” female or not. Doing so for any individual trait will necessarily require excluding some cis women from the category. There are some traits that no trans woman possesses, but there will always be cis women who don’t possess those traits either. As such, there is no definitive way that you can suggest trans women are outside of the category “woman” but all cis women are in. At least not without going into tautologies like “only cis women are really women because trans women aren’t really women”. In so far as the term “woman” is to be at all meaningful and consistent, trans women must be included."
(via iheartclassics)
(Source: fuckyeahscottpilgrimcomic, via kosment)
Sam Vimes knows Ankh Morpork by the soles of his boots. I know Milwaukee by the Internet dead spots for my phone.
“It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.”
― Terry PratchettWhat a dude.
"Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia."
Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett (via mikimeiko)
I know how to make a great impression
which includes being too sick to attend the first day of class.
I mean, I got up. My head is killing me, but I attempted to get ready. Even found my shoes.
Except the fault in the plan is where I started throwing up my soul so …
Leaving is not currently an option. I’m dying. Someone come and read to me.
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The least that any governor owes any president is respect.
It’s more than that. The least any PERSON owes any other person is respect.
Imagine what Republicans would have said if what occured at the Mesa airport between Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama had taken place between Gov. Janet Napolitano and President George W. Bush.
Can you imagine the explosions of rhetoric from our U.S. Senators and our Republicans in the House if there was a photograph of Napolitano wagging a finger at Bush?
The condemnation would have been overwhelming.
And justified.
The governor wasn’t at the airport greeting the president on behalf of herself. She was there representing ALL of us. Right, left and middle. Young and old. Men and women.
A simple “Welcome to Arizona, let me know if there’s anything we can do for you,” would have sufficed.
A lecture, an argument, a confrontation of any kind shows disrespect for the office. Not just for the person who holds it.
The governor should be embarrassed.
We all might have different views on politics. But we know good manners, and bad ones, when we see them.
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