January 2012
17 posts
The Most Badass Excerpt From Barney Frank's...
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
Interviewer: I thought you might explain why you support decriminalizing it but don’t smoke it.
Barney Frank: Do you think I’ve ever had an abortion?
Dear media, please call it rape
jessicavalenti:
Greg Kelly, son of NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly and co-host of “Good Day New York” on Fox 5, is being investigated for sexually assaulting a woman. Yet the headline that just came up in my news feed was this:
The media needs to call sexual assault what it is. When headlines continually conflate rape and sexual assault with ‘sex’, they contribute to a culture that...
“Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially...”
– from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA (via davidfinchers)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (via metricjulie)
