February 2012
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“My friends, I address you all tonight as you truly are; wizards, mermaids,...”
– Georges Méliès in Hugo (via mademoisellemelissa)
“[Woman] is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex From Romance Novels, The Last Great Bastion of Underground Writing
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Weird.
It’s good to know that Catholics draw the moral line somewhere. It’s just to bad that line doesn’t protect parishioners from sexual abuse.
But I digress.
According to CNN:
Under the new plan announced by Obama Friday, religiously affiliated universities and hospitals will not be forced to offer contraception coverage to their employees. Insurers will be required, however,...
Ford Prefect: Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting 'Gotcha.' It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.
Arthur Dent: Why not?
Ford Prefect: Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.
moi5t:
whenever i go out i’m always sure to set my phaser to “stunning”
“We want to sound like we’re tolerant, but the institution of marriage is not...”
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- Rick Santorum at a Focus on the Family event in Columbia, Mo., according to a story in The Maneater, the student newspaper of the University of Missouri. (via ruthoutspoken)
The environment and nuclear weapons, on the other hand, are perfectly safe to mess with. Logic-ed.
“Don’t let the muggles get you down.”
– Ron Weasley (via paperswallow)