Add this one to my list of perfect albums. I can’t bear to skip a single track.
bought this today!
Podiobook forthcoming because now I have no excuses left. And thank goodness for all the Amazon gift cards I get at work ‘cause the mic was insanely cheap.
Achieving the Impossible
Today I was told something that no one ever deemed possible for me to achieve. I was told by my doctor today that with my new glasses I would have 20/15 vision… I got teary eyed because the nearly blind little girl I used to be was told that was an impossible feat.
20/15!
Happy Birthday, S.A.M.! You will always be the perfect robot.
Is it just me or does S.A.M look like what happens when a Dalek has the Doctor’s baby? Doctor Dalek?
Colson Whitehead wins.
That’s a response to the new conservative super-PAC—bankrolled by a Chicago Cubs owner—that wants to portray the president as a “metrosexual, black Abraham Lincoln.”
Wait so is Abraham Lincoln supposed to be a bad thing now? Conservatives confuse me.
Fascinating talk on the state of our current educational system. What do you think of how you were educated?
Nine will always be my Doctor.
I adore Eccleston. I would not have gotten into Doctor Who had he not been such a big fan of my favorite little known band, I am Kloot. He is awesome-sauce.
(via wilwheaton)
Mary Jamis, a lesbian woman, was ARRESTED yesterday after she and her partner sought a marriage license in North Carolina.
Share this if you think it’s outrageous.
Did the law go into effect immediately?
oh how things have changed
In some African countries, you can be sentenced to death or life in prison simply for being gay. But South Africa is different, and the rights afforded to gays in that country since November 30, 2006, can be directly traced back to the end of Apartheid. The 1997 Constitution made almost any form of discrimination illegal, including that based on sexual orientation. In 2005, the Supreme Court found that the definition of marriage unfairly excluded same-sex partnerships and gave the Parliament one year to pass the necessary legislation.
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the connection between the end of apartheid and the legalization of same-sex marriage than one interaction between a black woman from the townships and a middle-class white man for whom she was preparing a marriage license. When he said he “didn’t want to make a fuss” and that there would be no guests and no rings, the woman asked, “Do you think you are a second-class citizen because you are gay? You have full rights in this new South Africa. You have the right to make a fuss.”
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