February 2012
24 posts
Here: Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing... →
chronically-awesome:
I can’t count how many times I’ve had incredibly uncomfortable run-ins with overly aggressive guys who felt they were entitled to harass me while I was going about my daily business just because I am a woman.
That feeling of anxiety and fear while trying to maintain a calm exterior and not “make a scene” is total fucking bullshit, and I’m just not going to do it anymore....
City Council Grills NYPD About Cycling Deaths →
glamourghouls:
Councilwoman Letitia James noted the irony of the department pleading scarce resources, and suggested that if the NYPD shifted its focus “from stopping and frisking people of color all throughout the city of New York in record numbers and your countersurveillance efforts surveilling innocent members of the Muslim community, and perhaps focus on public safety in the city of New...
I Tried to Watch Game of Thrones, and This is What... →
Basically.
The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time →
Andrew Jackson:
“On one occasion, he challenged a man named Charles Dickinson to a duel, (the reason behind it wasn’t important, not to us and certainly not to Jackson), and Jackson was even kind enough to give Dickinson the first shot. We’re gonna go ahead and repeat that: In a duel with pistols, Jackson politely volunteers to be shot at first. Dickinson happily obliged...
“Pedal Power” comes to Discovery World →
Discovery World and South Shore Cyclery will present “Pedal Power: A Week-Long Exploration of Bicycling,” from Monday, April 9 to Friday, April 13. The Easter Week event is scheduled to coincide with Spring Break, giving families a chance to head down to the lakefront to explore all things bipedal.
Gov. Scott Walker To Use Foreclosure Settlement... →
Scott Walker is a despicable human being.
“In each generation, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals — goals shared by the Founding Fathers. Denying African Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the formation of the original union. Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. The arguments and rationalizations that have been trotted out in support of racial exclusion and...