March 2011
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What's in your diet soda: the health risks of...
wcfoodies:
In 1965, a chemist at G.D. Searle & Co discovered aspartame. By 1981, aspartame was approved by the FDA and for sale under Searle’s trademarked brand name, NutraSweet. On aspartame’s shoulders, an entirely new arm of the food and drink industry was born: the calorie-free-sweetener ‘diet’ market.
In 1980 - a year before the FDA approved NutraSweet, and its active ingredient,...
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“One in three pregnancies end in miscarriage. As a woman who miscarried in the...”
– Georgia Representative Wants To Investigate All Miscarriages
And it would also discourage women from seeking needed medical attention if they miscarry.
If you’re not getting more and more pissed every day, you’re not paying attention.
(via sarahchristine (via imnotthatkindofgirl)
We need to be...
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“The Pope went to the continent most ravaged by AIDS and told them they couldn’t...”
– Bill Maher (via cocknbull)
vruz: ratzinger makes it particularly difficult to find a moral defence for his actions. impossible without convoluted rationalisations, I’d say.
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Uh, let’s not act like he’s the first either. He comes from a long line of men who put faith before truth or...
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China moves to make all of its museums free of... →
deleteyourself:
This is especially interesting in a time where Republicans are trying to eliminate programs like the National Endowment for the Arts. The US is losing the race.
not just losing it, we’re *throwing* it. we’re a complacent society that thinks, for the most part, that our own political action begins and ends at the voting booth.
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood →
saucy:
librarysciences:
Did you hear? The House voted to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding. They cut funding for HIV tests, cancer screenings, birth control, and more, putting millions of women and families at risk. We can’t let it go unanswered. It’s time for you and me to stand with Planned Parenthood. Sign the open letter to the reps who voted for this bill — and to the senators...
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How the GOP House Cut Spending Today:
motherjones:
A rundown of other amendments in the bill that House Republicans used to kill Planned Parenthood’s budget:
Eliminated cancer screening and basic health services for millions of poor women.
Prohibited EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
Cut financing for the Reagan-era US Institute of Peace.
Chopped funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
Banned financing of net...
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“I feel like I’m talking in vague garbage so I’ll do what I always do to clarify...”
– Dan Harmon
“I feel like I’m talking in vague garbage so I’ll do what I always do to clarify myself: I’ll keep talking.”
That’s like the one true character thing about me, I feel. Talk myself into a corner and keep talking until I’ve found my way out or my audience has...
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Going to the Movies
Kit: I want to go see a movie tonight. But I have to be at the tents early tomorrow.
Me: So we'll go tomorrow night.
Kit: No, I have to be at the tents even earlier on Monday.
Me: So we'll go Monday night.
Kit: And even earlier on Tuesday.
Me: So we'll go next week.
Kit: I'll be on a job.
Me: We'll go next year. 2012: the year we see a movie.
Kit: I'll have work then, too.
Me: Then when you retire.
Kit: That's never gonna-
Me: In 50 years. We'll go on our jetpacks.
Kit: Okay. Yeah. Sure.
Me: Date night lives!
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Watchmsnfilmfan:
So what are you seeing this weekend? Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never? Brooklyn Decker’s slow-motion boobies in Just Go With It? The animated Gnomeo & Juliet which features voice acting from James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Ozzy Osbourne? Ed Helms’s Cedar Rapids? Well one thing is for sure. You won’t see me dressed as the Bieber again anytime soon. The things I do to entertain...
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Yesterday, my 3 year old dog had 11 teeth...
$2,000 later, he’s back home and passed out in bed.
Turns out there wasn’t much we could have done to prevent this; the vet said the infection originated inside his teeth, so by the time we noticed it around his gums, it had already wreaked a lot of destruction in his mouth.
However, we are definitely taking him off of dry food and switching him to either a wet diet or a raw diet....
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Dear Coke Talk: On feminism. →
dearcoketalk:
In what ways does Postmodernism and Multi-cultural/global feminism critique the feminisms of the 1970’s and 1980’s?
Gloria Steinem is one of the baddest bitches ever to walk the earth. Back in the days of hairy bush, she was the cartoon tiger on the cereal box of women’s liberation, and the…
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MSNFilmFan: Allow me to re-introduce myself... →
msnfilmfan:
Film watchers, overpriced ticket buyers and popcorn gluttons, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Sami Jarroush, your new host for Filmfan. First off, I gotta say that I’m thrilled to be a part of this show. Now I know that the new people, when they first sign on to a new project have to say…
New season of FilmFan means new host, new Tumblr, new approach. Check out new host...
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Mike Hudack: maxistentialist: Agence France... →
maxistentialist:
Agence France Presse:
A survey of oyster habitats around the world has found that the succulent mollusks are disappearing fast and 85 percent of their reefs have been lost due to disease and over-harvesting.
Most of the remaining wild oysters in the world, or about 75…
GODDAMMIT.
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“Can you name any country that became a democracy after a violent revolution?...”
– Sean Hannity, on Egypt (thanks, Cayman)
Gosh, what was the name of that one? Two words, first one starts with a U…
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Best Hannity quote ever. EVER.
(via evangotlib)
I…uh…just…*HeadDesk*
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elliottsmith:
Elliott Smith - Place Pigalle
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