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Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to shadow73!!!! -
Happy Holidays, y'all!
Instead of me gettin' all bah humbug on you, how's about this depiction of holiday cheer, courtesy of funny or die.
Drunk History Christmas with Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes from Ryan Gosling
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Day off from LJ
I won't be on LJ tomorrow, Tuesday, December 20. It's unlikely to happen in the ONE DAY I'm away, but if you're here to report a problem in a community I mod, please report to one of the other mods. They're not always on LJ but they check their email regularly and get notifications ( Read more... ) -
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It frustrates and saddens me that so many of my friends, particularly the ones who are so very vocally religious, know so little about the origins of the holidays we all celebrate.
My facebook feed has been flooded with declarations that "Jesus is the reason for the season", "it's called a CHRISTmas tree", "they're CHRISTMAS parties, not holiday ( Read more... ) -
Link Spam
Today's link spam is one link. But it is an awesome one.
The History of Vaccines. Love them, hate them, not sure about them, where ever you fall, this site will give you factual information about the history of them. It also answers those people who state that people did just fine before modern medicine. -
Link Spam - Part II
This is the stuff I posted on facebook earlier when LJ was down because of the DDoS. Worth reposting because it's worth reading and some of you aren't on the fb f-list. These two have both gone viral, for very good reason.
"Happy Holidays" and Other Four Letter Words. Excerpt: "The only one who can take your Christ out of your Christmas is you." ( Read more... ) -
Link Spam!
I can't start my assay right now because of stuff so I'm reading the news.
You all already know I'm sick and tired of women's rights and health being used as a political leveraging tool. We're 50% of the population, not a special interest group. Here a columnist with HuffPo calls out the President for not "manning up" when it comes to women's health ( Read more... ) -
The Avengers...Marketing Edition
I know most of you don't peruse feminist blogs. There's been a lot of discussion about the sexism involved in the marketing of The Avengers. Take a look at any of the ads and you'll see Black Widow is displayed as a sex symbol, if she's displayed at all, while the rest of the Avengers are displayed as strong. Not in all the ads, mind you, but in ( Read more... )