Somebody made Jedi-Malkin into a meme?

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Space Tiger don’t give a SH*T!

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Calvinball by Joe Wright

Shirt available at teefury. No sport is less organized than Calvinball!

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Trailer: The Muppets - Nov 23

This is real, real exciting. Real exciting.

YES!!!

This is what my birthday party will be!!!

If you know me you know what I’m doing right now.

(hint: rhymes with “drying in toy”)

Eeeeeeee!

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Barn Bocock : Brand Wars

Barn Bocock runs the awesome website How to Carve Roast Unicorn from the Middle Earth (well, New Zealand), but he is also a designer ! Check his awesome Brand Wars, smart and well designed, brilliant ! More pics in the full article !

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thetardis:

Take my love, take my land 
Take me where I cannot stand 
I don’t care, I’m still free 
You can’t take the sky from me 
Take me out to the black 
Tell them I ain’t comin’ back 
Burn the land and boil the sea 
You can’t take the sky from me 
There’s no place I can be 
Since I found Serenity 
But you can’t take the sky from me…

THIS!

theangryblack:

I remember seeing this quote a while back. He wasn’t actually responding to him being bad at writing women, but this explains so many things…

zesticola:

“There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the…

There are new characters on Big Bang Theory? Maybe the next time I’m home sick for two weeks I’ll catch up :-)

twistedmindedguy:

Entenda os alinhamentos do D&D com The Big Band Theory.

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nerd-gasms:

So there’s a lot of crap happening on Planet Earth (I had a convo this weekend with my high school BFF about our inability to understand how much room there is in peoples’ heads for trivia about pop stars when there are quite literally too many important news stories to keep straight, but enough of our pseudo-intellectual posturing) and of all of that crap I have tended to focus on the Wisconsin protests, on this blog and elsewhere. I am staunchly pro-union—furthermore I am staunchly pro-private sector unionization and pro-white collar unionization—and I feel like I shout into a vacuum about these topics a lot of the time. It’s nice to engage in actual conversations and debates about a real news story rather than digging through random page 73 news briefs or statistics about museum employees and trying to make blog posts out of them. For example.

What I’m saying is: unions are a pet topic of mine (and important!) and I’m pretty self-indulgent on my own blog(s). But holy fuck, guys. Gaddafi is murdering his own people en masse. He’s trying to enforce a news blackout. There are jerkwads amongst my own countrymen whose only concern about any of this is the fact that it pushes up oil prices. Not to be flip (as if I’m ever not flip), but this shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this (except insane) because I’m not promising “fair and balanced coverage” or anything. I guess I just want to make sure you’re all aware that I’m aware that what’s happening in Wisconsin is not more important than what’s happening in Libya.

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healywu:

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maxistentialist:

This is the most important thing I have read about the protests in Wisconsin. If you’d like to learn more, I suggest this lecture, which I think is the best explanation of American politics that exists.

George Lakoff:

The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy.

The individual issues are all too real: assaults on unions, public employees, women’s rights, immigrants, the environment, health care, voting rights, food safety, pensions, prenatal care, science, public broadcasting, and on and on.

Budget deficits are a ruse, as we’ve seen in Wisconsin, where the governor turned a surplus into a deficit by providing corporate tax breaks, and then used the deficit as a ploy to break the unions, not just in Wisconsin, but seeking to be the first domino in a nationwide conservative movement.

Deficits can be addressed by raising revenue, plugging tax loopholes, putting people to work, and developing the economy long-term in all the ways the president has discussed. But deficits are not what really matters to conservatives.

Conservatives really want to change the basis of American life, to make America run according to the conservative moral worldview in all areas of life.

In the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama accurately described the basis of American democracy: Empathy - citizens caring for each other, both social and personal responsibility - acting on that care, and an ethic of excellence. From these, our freedoms and our way of life follow, as does the role of government: to protect and empower everyone equally. Protection includes safety, health, the environment, pensions and empowerment starts with education and infrastructure. No one can be free without these, and without a commitment to care and act on that care by one’s fellow citizens.

The conservative worldview rejects all of that.

Conservatives believe in individual responsibility alone, not social responsibility. They don’t think government should help its citizens. That is, they don’t think citizens should help each other. The part of government they want to cut is not the military (we have 174 bases around the world), not government subsidies to corporations, not the aspect of government that fits their worldview. They want to cut the part that helps people. Why? Because that violates individual responsibility.

But where does that view of individual responsibility alone come from?

The way to understand the conservative moral system is to consider a strict father family. The father is The Decider, the ultimate moral authority in the family. His authority must not be challenged. His job is to protect the family, to support the family (by winning competitions in the marketplace), and to teach his kids right from wrong by disciplining them physically when they do wrong. The use of force is necessary and required. Only then will children develop the internal discipline to become moral beings. And only with such discipline will they be able to prosper. And what of people who are not prosperous? They don’t have discipline, and without discipline they cannot be moral, so they deserve their poverty. The good people are hence the prosperous people. Helping others takes away their discipline, and hence makes them both unable to prosper on their own and function morally.

The market itself is seen in this way. The slogan, “Let the market decide” assumes the market itself is The Decider. The market is seen as both natural (since it is assumed that people naturally seek their self-interest) and moral (if everyone seeks their own profit, the profit of all will be maximized by the invisible hand). As the ultimate moral authority, there should be no power higher than the market that might go against market values. Thus the government can spend money to protect the market and promote market values, but should not rule over it either through (1) regulation, (2) taxation, (3) unions and worker rights, (4) environmental protection or food safety laws, and (5) tort cases. Moreover, government should not do public service. The market has service industries for that. Thus, it would be wrong for the government to provide health care, education, public broadcasting, public parks, and so on. The very idea of these things is at odds with the conservative moral system. No one should be paying for anyone else. It is individual responsibility in all arenas. Taxation is thus seen as taking money away from those who have earned it and giving it to people who don’t deserve it. Taxation cannot be seen as providing the necessities of life, a civilized society, and as necessary for business to prosper.

In conservative family life, the strict father rules. Fathers and husbands should have control over reproduction; hence, parental and spousal notification laws and opposition to abortion. In conservative religion, God is seen as the strict father, the Lord, who rewards and punishes according to individual responsibility in following his Biblical word.

Above all, the authority of conservatism itself must be maintained. The country should be ruled by conservative values, and progressive values are seen as evil. Science shouldn’t have authority over the market, and so the science of global warming and evolution must be denied. Facts that are inconsistent with the authority of conservatism must be ignored or denied or explained away. To protect and extend conservative values themselves, the devil’s own means can be used again conservatism’s immoral enemies, whether lies, intimidation, torture, or even death, say, for women’s doctors.

Freedom is defined as being your own strict father - with individual not social responsibility, and without any government authority telling you what you can and cannot do. To defend that freedom as an individual, you will of course need a gun.

This is the America that conservatives really want. Budget deficits are convenient ruses for destroying American democracy and replacing it with conservative rule in all areas of life. 

What is saddest of all is to see Democrats helping them.

Democrats help radical conservatives by accepting the deficit frame and arguing about what to cut. Even arguing against specific “cuts” is working within the conservative frame. What is the alternative? Pointing out what conservatives really want. Point out that there is plenty of money in America, and in Wisconsin. It is at the top. The disparity in financial assets is un-American - the top one percent has more financial assets than the bottom 95 percent. Middle class wages have been flat for 30 years, while the wealth has floated to the top. This fits the conservative way of life, but not the American way of life.

Democrats help conservatives by not shouting out loud over and over that it was conservative values that caused the global economic collapse: lack of regulation and a greed-is-good ethic.

Democrats also help conservatives by what a friend has called Democratic Communication Disorder. Republican conservatives have constructed a vast and effective communication system, with think tanks, framing experts, training institutes, a system of trained speakers, vast holdings of media, and booking agents. Eighty percent of the talking heads on TV are conservatives. Talk matters because language heard over and over changes brains. Democrats have not built the communication system they need, and many are relatively clueless about how to frame their deepest values and complex truths.

And Democrats help conservatives when they function as policy wonks — talking policy without communicating the moral values behind the policies. They help conservatives when they neglect to remind us that pensions are deferred payments for work done. “Benefits” are pay for work, not a handout. Pensions and benefits are arranged by contract. If there is not enough money for them, it is because the contracted funds have been taken by conservative officials and given to wealthy people and corporations instead of to the people who have earned them.

Democrats help conservatives when they use conservative words like “entitlements” instead of “earnings” and speak of government as providing “services” instead of “necessities.”

Is there hope?

I see it in Wisconsin, where tens of thousands citizens see through the conservative frames and are willing to flood the streets of their capital to stand up for their rights. They understand that democracy is about citizens uniting to take care of each other, about social responsibility as well as individual responsibility, and about work— not just for your own profit, but to help create a civilized society. They appreciate their teachers, nurses, firemen, police, and other public servants. They are flooding the streets to demand real democracy - the democracy of caring, of social responsibility, and of excellence, where prosperity is to be shared by those who work and those who serve.

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Lakoff forever

An important message about the collective dream of America.

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The Time Lord by *glolinde

OH MY FUCKING GOD

JESUS TAKE ALL THE WHEELS.

ALL THE FUCKING WHEELS.

 #About three things I was absolutely positive. First, The Doctor was a Time Lord. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my bananas. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

I’M JUST GONNA DIE THEN.

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