With tanning beds and spray tans we came to value dead skin.
Wear sunblock. Protect the tissue.
Exfoliate. Slough off the dead tissue.
Moisturize. Feed the tissue.
You are doing no one favors by breaking out that tank top early.
Especially your skin. Cover it up.
Modesty is beauty.
You are puny against the power of the Sun.
Avoid its rays, 10 to 2.
Go and relax in the shade.
When you had those hair extensions put in, did it inspire you to be a better person?
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people… . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
—James Madison
(Source: politicalprof)
200,000 galaxies in one photo. In case you had an overinflated ego today.
Image Credit: ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU
Mortal arrogance.
Of this
I know
I am
guilty.
But
in my
mortal arrogance
still I see
Your Holy
folly.
I
defy you,
oh Lord.
I
your creation
stand against you
oh Lord.
I
look you
in the Eye.
I
say
to your Face,
is this your best?
Unique, Alone
Is this my destiny, Lord?
Is this my life?
Always alone?
Forever singular?
The onely one,
who feels what I feel,
who sees what I see?
To befriend the similar,
the somewhat alike?
Tell me Lord,
what am I?
I know
you’ve shown me
that
I’m not regular.
I know.
I know I’m not one of
them.
I’m special.
Am I though?
Set aside,
but left alone?
Surrounded,
but lonely?
So many questions.
So few answers.
How?
How could you be so cruel?
To set me apart.
To single me out.
To leave me alone.
O God! How you’ve sinned!
O God! How you’ve left me alone!
I’ve defied you, oh Lord.
Think of my loneliness!
Think of my singularity!
Despite of You,
I’ve found others.
In spite of You,
I’ve found others.
Others,
others who
see,
know,
feel,
what I see,
what I know,
what I feel.
Others who
fearlessly,
so fearlessly,
defy You.
We are so different,
but similar.
We are so varied,
but united.
We defy you,
God.
I have been unfriending people on facebook in droves. Entire blocs of acquaintances cut off. If that bitch looked at me kind of funny that one time, she’s gone. If that asshole made just one too many gay jokes, he’ out. When it came to blood relatives, I’d measure with “How often do I really see her?” Some people I face on a daily basis just barely made the cut. If you are my facebook friend that means I’ve either got a soft part in my heart for you, or I’m afraid of what may go down if we see each other in public.
Called it!
I’m an advocate for in vitro fertilization,” Crain said. “This is not anything that’s designed with the intent that we are going to charge doctors.”
Yesterday at work we were talking about the Personhood Act, and I said, I told them, I told them all, I said,” You watch! There will be exceptions for reproductive science, because these religious people love kicking out babies.”
