Hey ita, if you want, there's another angle to be upset about that NBC billboard
Welcome to pretty damned consistent things I'm told that aren't problems because non-white people are invisible in real life too. Billboards aren't a conspiracy, but they're very often comfortable reinforcement of status quos.
Josh Hutcherson and Bradley Whitford made good son and father in 2005. I'm so glad that this 11 year old love story that was way creepy for me was also creepy for the 11 year old girl in it. Her precise words (involving flattery and being 11 and not ready to be loved like that) were much more eloquent than I'd have been (aka running and screaming), but a great way to end a movie there's no way I think I could have tolerated without knowing she dumped him in the end.
Does anyone here dislike elephants? Like, put them on the low end of their wild animal scale? Do elephants make you emotional? I'm a little surprised by the reaction I got to a picture with one in, and a couple of the posts have identical tags which makes me wonder if I stumbled into elephant fandom. (Which would be great--I periodically want to go rescue some, but I'm not sure where is the best place to put them after)
makes me wonder if I stumbled into elephant fandom
I think elephants are pretty universally loved. Or they should be anyway. Did you see the pictures of the rescued elephant in SC playing with its buddy, a black lab? They were in the water, and the dog would be on her back and she'd throw a ball for him to catch. ADORABLE.
Do elephants make you emotional?
Absolutely. I'm still kind of traumatized by the picture of the baby elephant crying after his mother abandoned him (he got adopted by caretakers, but still).
Y'all have seen the "elephants reunited after 22 years video", right? [link]
My Unlikely Animal Friendships calendar this month is a
different
elephant-dog pair, and I really regretted googling them, because the dog died.
Well, this is depressing. Buzzfeed has a list of the lowest-paying jobs that require a bachelors degree. I'm earning comparable to the ones listed, and I have a doctorate.
That was depressing. So was their list of the highest-paying jobs that don't require a degree. I think I got some bad advice in high school.
Matt, at least you got the kitty into your apartment before he disappeared! He'll probably just hide and sleep all day underneath something.
I am pro-elephant. I am strongly anti-shaming people in unfortunate circumstances.
I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?
Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?
That's what I don't get.
Absolutely. I'm still kind of traumatized by the picture of the baby elephant crying after his mother abandoned him (he got adopted by caretakers, but still).
I saw that. For a second I thought it was a video, and I was backclicking like crazy because I did not want to *hear* him crying. Poor baby.
Well, I think they just convince themselves that *these* poor people are not righteous or something.Or, in the case of the twatwaffle from AFP that Chris Hayes ripped into yesterday, balancing budgets and fighting fraud. I love Chris Hayes...the only problem is sometimes he gets so upset he sputters. Maybe he can borrow some of Olbermann's power from Stephen Colbert.
Msbelle, if it wasn't clear before, I totally think you're right. Everyone should be pissed off about that. But there are so many things all the time!
I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?
Two bright spots:
1. That Colbert quote
2. The pope. (I was going to elaborate, but really, just Pope Francis.)
My rage against congress is all consuming this morning.
I have emailed and made my calls. Fat lot of good it will do me.
I do have roller derby photos from my last bout, though. Which are more than slightly amusing.
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