brown eyes gone green

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The same twenty-six letters.
They seem like strangers to me, though.
Maybe I need some kind of reboot.

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Every now and again, my brain tries to generate things. I generally squash them, because my brain doesn't seem to be wired for words anymore, and every thought that comes up consists of false phrases. I can't seem to work out ( Read more... )

dumbstruck
Susie McDonald
Something I never thought I'd see.

Family, in a Final Jeopardy clue, no matter how indirectly.

On Dec. 20, 1956 the [Supreme] court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event.

I've told this story before, but I'll rehash it just because.

That lady up there is my mother's great- ( Read more... )

Cyber Monday works for meSimone
(Blox + Bits Expansion pack not shown)Christmas is done, bitches.VivienneVivienne
After Simone was born (too many years ago, dammit), I became a bit of a stickler about presents that are actually enrichment activities, and trying to gauge where the girls are developmentally is a little difficult with not seeing them so ( Read more... )

somebody had to say itFirst Lady Michelle Obama
Bowie State University
Commencement Address( Opening remarks. )

Okay, now I want to fuck Matt Damon.  Not before, just now.

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Oh, and that thing about job security for actors?  Clearly this wench has never been in a restaurant located in any city that has an Equity theater.  Samuel L. Jackson should have such motivation.

How is laying off thousands of teachers in multiple states helping the economy of states that have significant budget shortfalls?  Taking education money off the books with layoffs requires more money in unemployment claims if there aren’t other jobs for the teachers in the private sector, and more unemployed people can’t help spark spending that ( Read more... )

Only thirteen?

So now I have verifiable, if still anecdotal, evidence that there is a difference between moderately slutty (by post-feminist community standards) straight girls and blandly average gay men.

See, during even my semester-on-the-Dean's-list, truly focused on academics freshman year in college, I did thirteen guys in one week, including ( Read more... )

I’m never 100% certain how to feel about Stanley Crouch’s positions, but this situation definitely bugs.

From The Daily Beast:
A College, a Gun - and a Big Injustice
Stanley Crouch
After a Morehouse College student shot a classmate three times, he was sentenced to… graduation. Inside an outrageous case that shows that the old boys’ network is color- ( Read more... )

Disappointing, but - especially as a former university employee; a grunt in the offices of pseudo-power - not particularly surprising:

So it is with a heavy heart that colleges come begging their alumni for cash, and their pleas will be compelling.  If you don’t send them money, they’ll tell you, they could be forced to turn away well-qualified low- ( Read more... )

Since so much of the last several months in America has been given over to religious-right kowtowing, I think it’s time to bring up my favorite chestnut again: the right’s war on sex in general.

Every time some little nugget comes up that makes something that sex-negatives look like idiots deserves having a big, honking klieg light shone on it for ( Read more... )