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(President Obama’s ABC News interview) came the day after North Carolina voted emphatically to ban all rights for gay couples in the state constitution. For gay Americans and their families, the emotional darkness of Tuesday night became a canvas on which Obama could paint a widening dawn. But I didn’t expect it. Like many others, I braced myself for disappointment. And yet when I watched the interview, the tears came flooding down. The moment reminded me of my own wedding day. I had figured it out in my head, but not my heart. And I was utterly unprepared for how psychologically transformative the moment would be. To have the president of the United States affirm my humanity—and the humanity of all gay Americans—was, unexpectedly, a watershed. He shifted the mainstream in one interview. And last week, a range of Democratic leaders—from Harry Reid to Steny Hoyer—backed the president, who moved an entire party behind a position that only a few years ago was regarded as simply preposterous. And in response, Mitt Romney could only stutter.
ANDREW SULLIVAN, writing in Newsweek, “The First Gay President”
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Photo reblogged from ...because the girl like you is impossible to find
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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Video reblogged from BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.
Quick, someone tell Ashton Kutcher that his stupid ad is racist so he can Tweet to his 50 billion followers that he wasn’t being racist, to which we would then say “Hey dummy, when you cross the line from acting into base caricature, replete with exaggerated accent and what we guess you think is ethnospecific dance, shut the fuck up about not being a racist, okay?”.
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In which we quote tumblr users on The Daily Beast in response to that list of useless college majors you all loved so dearly!
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Quote reblogged from The Core JournalSince her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
