Forego the Parable

"Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too..."

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:45:23 -0600

“Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action.”

- Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via theatlantic)

barackobama: Four more years.

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:03:51 -0600

barackobama:

Four more years.

"Governor Romney: I created the TV Show ‘Friday Night Lights’ and came up with the phrase ‘Clear..."

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:32:37 -0500

“Governor Romney: I created the TV Show ‘Friday Night Lights’ and came up with the phrase ‘Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.’ I was not thrilled when I saw that you have plagiarized this expression to support your campaign … Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series. … Please come up with your own campaign slogan.”

- writer-director Peter Berg, in a letter to the Romney campaign, via soupsoup via The Hollywood Reporter. (via washingtonpoststyle)

Love my alma mater. On Wisconsin! barackobama: A few people...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:13:34 -0500

Love my alma mater. On Wisconsin!

barackobama:

A few people showed up to see the president in Wisconsin today.

barackobama: Elections do have consequences. For this kid, it...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:54:48 -0500

barackobama:

Elections do have consequences. For this kid, it was getting his dad back.

Obama for America: Dear Tumblr: This is our 1,000th post.

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:43:38 -0500

Obama for America: Dear Tumblr: This is our 1,000th post.:

barackobama:

Hundreds of reader submissions and re-blogs and GIFs later, here we are, 1,000 posts in, 42 days out from the election, with early voting starting in Iowa in two days.

And here’s a reminder of why we’re all here:

To re-elect the guy who said this to Democratic members of Congress on March 20,…

Oh Mitt, saying that the best feeling I had about Obama was when I voted for him.

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:15:50 -0500

mykicks:

The best feeling I had about Obama was when he signed a law expanding health care coverage to millions of Americans.

The best feeling I had about Obama was when he helped make sure that everyone brave enough to serve in the military can do so openly.

The best feeling I had about Obama was when he said that everyone should be able to marry whomever they love.

I barely remember the act of voting for him now.

The Health Care Decision, Explained in 1 Paragraph

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:51:12 -0500

The Health Care Decision, Explained in 1 Paragraph:

theatlantic:

(via SCOTUSblog)

barackobama: Clear eyes, full hearts.

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:48 -0500

barackobama:

Clear eyes, full hearts.

kaylabirdzzz: ask a grown man: jon hamm- answers questions from...

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:19:37 -0500

kaylabirdzzz:

ask a grown man: jon hamm- answers questions from teenage girls

[[thanks pigglet]]

Do yourself a favor and watch this video.

My favorite place. via: thekimenator: hellokatie: madewell:

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:52:08 -0500

My favorite place.

via: thekimenator: hellokatie: madewell:

"We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 11:41:37 -0500

“

We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.

Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”

The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.

I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.

So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.

… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.

Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.

”

- Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “Wasting Our Minds.”

Go read the whole damned thing.

(via inothernews)

"It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t just love his daughter, but also her wife. It happens..."

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:20:37 -0500

“It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t just love his daughter, but also her wife. It happens when a soldier tells his unit that he’s gay, and they tell him they knew it all along and they didn’t care, because he was the toughest guy in the unit. It happens when a video sparks a movement to let every single young person know they’re not alone, and things will get better.

It happens when people look past their ultimately minor differences to see themselves in the hopes and struggles of their fellow human beings. That’s where change is happening.

And that’s not just the story of the gay rights movement. That’s the story of America—the slow, inexorable march towards a more perfect union.”

- President Obama (via barackobama)

"For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:51:05 -0500

“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.”

- President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

"Yeah. And you can quote me on that."

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:36:40 -0500

“Yeah. And you can quote me on that.”

- 2012 Master’s Champion Bubba Watson in an anonymous survey from Golf Magazine responding to a question asking if Augusta National’s all-male membership policy bothered him. 90% of the survey responded “No.”

rzrachelzoe: In need of a great new handbag this Spring? Isn’t...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:21:38 -0600

rzrachelzoe:

In need of a great new handbag this Spring? Isn’t everyone? That’s why I’m giving away the incredibly chic Joni Hobo from my collection! Reblog this post for a chance to be entered to win.

Contest is open to US and International residents from February 27th-March 3rd.

Good Luck to all my fellow fashion obsessed! xoRZ

See contest rules here

Doubtful, but you never know :)

nprmusic: On dueling grand pianos, Bon Iver frontman Justin...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:26:11 -0600

nprmusic:

On dueling grand pianos, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and drummer Sean Carey work through stripped-down versions of ”Hinnom, TX,” “Wash.,” and “Beth/Rest” from Bon Iver, “Babys” from the Blood Bank EP, and the single “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”

partiallycommitted: i <3 obama This is a fantastic video.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:53:14 -0600

partiallycommitted:

i <3 obama

This is a fantastic video.

"The great conservative bugaboo, Obamacare, is also far more moderate than its critics have..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:42:20 -0600

“The great conservative bugaboo, Obamacare, is also far more moderate than its critics have claimed…Yes, it crosses the Rubicon of universal access to private health care. But since federal law mandates that hospitals accept all emergency-room cases requiring treatment anyway, we already obey that socialist principle—but in the most inefficient way possible. Making 44 million current free-riders pay into the system is not fiscally reckless; it is fiscally prudent. It is, dare I say it, conservative…What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a show-don’t-tell, long-game form of domestic politics. What matters to him is what he can get done, not what he can immediately take credit for. And so I railed against him for the better part of two years for dragging his feet on gay issues. But what he was doing was getting his Republican defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to move before he did. The man who made the case for repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was, in the end, Adm. Mike Mullen.”

- Andrew Sullivan absolutely kills this. He defends Obama’s first term as remarkably prolific, moderate and true to principle. Hear, hear. (via thecallup)

Full Credit For Being Alive: An Annotated Response To That New York Post Tim Tebow Article By Someone Who Has Had Five Hours Of Sleep In The Last Two...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:10:21 -0600

Full Credit For Being Alive: An Annotated Response To That New York Post Tim Tebow Article By Someone Who Has Had Five Hours Of Sleep In The Last Two...:

fullcredit:

Tebow is respectful, wholesome and a man of God. He has no obvious failings besides an inaccurate throwing arm.

Well that is unfortunate, as THAT IS HIS JOB. Not to teach us all about Jesus. His job is to THROW THE BALL TO SOMEONE ELSE, and if he wasn’t talking about God all the fucking…

Pretty much my thoughts exactly.