*sobs*

August 23, 2012

Onion: Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting

August 24, 2012:

Update: Never mind.

(And, yes, all of the bystanders were shot by cops. Man, if only a civilian had been carrying, then everyone would have been really safe.)

Oh god

Starving the Future

A survey of kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers released this week by Share Our Strength, a nonprofit that seeks to end child hunger, found that 6 in 10 of those teachers say “students regularly come to school hungry because they are not getting enough to eat at home,” and “a majority of teachers who see hunger as a problem believe that the problem is growing.”

The report quotes a teacher in the Midwest as saying, “The saddest are the children who cry when we get out early for a snow day because they won’t get lunch.”

What could possibly go wrong?

Teen Wolf fan fiction contest.

ETA: To be fair, I give them props for blogging this. (Yes, this is the official Teen Wolf blog).

ETA 2: And, wow ... this.

True, that.

Rape Fatigue and You: When There’s Just No Anger Left

Along with scores of other women, I watched, agape, when Congressman Darrell Issa hosted a panel on birth control featuring all religious men whining about how allowing women to purchase birth control with their health care plans violated the men's religious freedom. I watched the entire multi-hour web stream of the hearing, thinking that maybe these men were just being deliberate assholes, that this was the newest realm of the urban hipster. Choosing to be religious and using that choice to interfere with women choosing not to be pregnant. Hipsters love irony. And when Virginia lawmakers pushing for mandatory transvaginal ultrasound laws were quoted saying, basically, that pregnant women had already been penetrated vaginally once, so it makes perfect sense for the state to require they be penetrated again, I winced so hard I think I strained something. Remember the time when Terry England of Georgia justified his support of a bill that would force women pregnant with nonviable fetuses to carry them to term with the fact that he was a farmer and sometimes livestock delivered stillborn baby farm animals and it was very, very sad? I did, until the memory was temporarily displaced by the next crappy thing a man who is actually in charge of stuff said.

Hey, look - baby sand cats! I just love those sand cats. Can't get enough of them.

QOTD

Peggy Noonan

[Mr. Romney] must use humor .... it is natural to him. Before the voting in Iowa, he wryly told a friend that the caucuses were like the LaBrea Tar Pits: "No one comes out the way they went in." On a conference call recently, he asked a question of his staff. No one answered. Mr. Romney waited. "Bueller? Bueller?" he said, in a perfect imitation of Ben Stein.

I ... don't think there's anything I can add to this.

All I can say is

I've appreciated what I gather is the relatively recent innovation of the Tootsie Fruit Roll? Or maybe I only discovered them in the last few years? Or maybe they were only sold commonly in my area in the last few years? Anyhoo, whatever the reason, they're sort of new to me, and the cherry and vanilla are my favorites.

Tootsie Roll's Secret Empire