September 2011
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America has selective memory.
Everyone who was old enough to comprehend it remembers 9/11. You can’t not remember it. Such a momentous event in our country’s history would be impossible to forget, even if assholes everywhere weren’t visually forcing us to remember by commercializing the event and memorializing it forever in such dignified mediums as buttons, t-shirts, and that all-American favorite, the...
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“Belief without action is the ruin of the soul.”
– Edward Abbey
August 2011
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The "No-Kill" Fallacy
One of the most common questions I’m asked, both by people coming in to drop off animals and by friends of mine who ask about my job, is whether the shelter where I work is a “no-kill” shelter. When I reply that we’re not, nearly everyone seems surprised and disappointed. For some reason, people who know me seem to assume that, as the consummate animal lover, I’d...
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Poll says New Yorkers are happy with marriage... →
gaywrites:
A new NY1/Marist poll says the majority of New Yorkers are happy with the newly established marriage equality law and wouldn’t want to change it.
The poll says “55% of New York State residents support the new law, 36% oppose it, and 9% are unsure.” College graduates, young people, white people and people with higher incomes were more likely to support it.
In addition, 44% of voters...
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“What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering...”
– Quote Vadis - Quotes, Inspiration, Wisdom
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There’s this phrase people like to use with those of us who work in animal welfare:
“You can’t save them all.”
It comes from a place of kindness. People say it in an effort to acknowledge that we do our best, but that sometimes things don’t work out and not every animal gets a chance. What they don’t realize is that every person who works in this field hates...
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Why the new Spider-Man... →
Every comic fan should read this.
dcwomenkickingass:
The moment when my passion for comics began is as clear to me now many, many years later as it was then. It was the moment when I saw Batgirl on the TV screen. As a small child I loved Batman, but I couldn’t be Batman because I was a girl. But then there was this girl, woman, doing the things that…
July 2011
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Janelle Monae is my go-to happy music lately.
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“Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in...”
– Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Adolf Hitler’s Reichsmarschall, as quoted during the Nuremburg Trials