animalstalkinginallcaps:

YOU’RE SORRY I’M UPSET? YOU’RE SORRY I’M UPSET? HERE’S A CRAZY THOUGHT: WHY DON’T YOU TRY BEING SORRY THAT YOU’RE AN INSENSITIVE SHITHEAD WHO DOESN’T THINK BEFORE HE OPENS HIS MOUTH? WHY DON’T YOU TRY BEING SORRY YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE TACTFUL, OR TENDER, EVER? HOW ABOUT YOU JUST APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A COMPLETE DICK 85% OF THE TIME, TO EVERYONE, BECAUSE YOU’RE AN EMOTIONALLY STUNTED MAN-CHILD CAREENING THROUGH LIFE LIKE A PSYCHIC WRECKING BALL, SOMEHOW DELUDED INTO THINKING YOUR BULLSHIT IS ‘CHARMING’ OR ‘FUNNY’? THOSE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY BEING SORRY ABOUT BEFORE YOU APOLOGIZE FOR MY COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED REACTIONS TO YOUR BEHAVIOR, ASSHOLE.

JUST GO AWAY BEFORE I ‘OVERREACT’ TO WHATEVER GARBAGE IS ABOUT TO COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. 

1. Bisexual

2. Dancing

3. Brian’s

4. When I went to see Happy Feet 2 with Brian

5. Pretty bad…

6. They should know :p

7. Dunno

8. People who are too stubborn to be skeptical…

9. He’s a scrawny guy that likes anime and, oddly enough, vocaloid o.O

10. Fox

11. Brian

12. He was an asshole and I was just tired of the relationship…

13. Watched Nana

14. I don’t know

15. Fucking poser

16. Stone Temple Pilots songs

17. I don’t remember

18. A nice face

19. Oreo (a mutt), Coconut (a labradoodle), Rosie (a golden doodle), a collection of fish (mostly goldfish, mollies, tetras, etc.), a few parakeets

20. Spumoni

21. With Brian

22. (After I got my hair cut short) “You look like your old self, which is disgusting and you know it.”

23. Colorado (Denver, Thornton, Castle Rock), Nebraska (Omaha), and Indiana (Carmel)

24. You’re super sweet and nice

25. I think I’ll go to a vocational school for computers or math

26. I think I fall in love too easily

27. Probably nothing

28. Happy

29. Probably when I peed myself in elementary school because they wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom. -.-

30. That people secretly don’t like me; that my body is ugly

31. Use it for school and to buy my own place

32. Skinny, curly hair, makes me laugh, sometimes cute and sometimes obnoxious

33. My personality

34. When I end up getting into an argument and know I couldn’t win even if I was right, when people spell so badly I can’t tell what they mean

35. None :/

36. Diddn’t this question already appear at number six?

37. Zero…

38. Cuddling on the couch and playing video games and ordering pizza

39. Singing

40. I’d rather not say

41. Somewhere affordable and safe

42. I don’t remember word for word, but nonetheless it was very sweet

43. Yep

44. Chairs knocking around in the library, me typing, the radio on my MP3 player

45. I love my little brother but I don’t like kids so I wish he would grow up

46. This already appeared at number nineteen -_-

47. That my boyfriend will cheat on me again and I’ll be alone…

48. For my boyfriend to live closer

49. I love them and we get along

50. What the hell? This can’t be proper English

51. Or rather, something I should not have said

52. “k”

53. I’m too nice for my own good, I’m a pushover

54. Similar interests and a good personality

55. Literally nothing, I hate being ignored

56. You can’t choose your classmates so I end up going to school with a bunch of retards, incompetent bigots, etc.

cwnl:

Why Gay Parents May Be the Best Parents

Gay marriage, and especially gay parenting, has been in the cross hairs in recent days.

On Jan. 6, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all. And last Monday (Jan. 9), Pope Benedict called gay marriage a threat “to the future of humanity itself,” citing the need for children to have heterosexual homes.

But research on families headed by gays and lesbians doesn’t back up these dire assertions. In fact, in some ways, gay parents may bring talents to the table that straight parents don’t.

Gay parents “tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents,” said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who researches gay and lesbian parenting. Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident, compared with an almost 50 percent accidental pregnancy rate among heterosexuals, Goldberg said. “That translates to greater commitment on average and more involvement.”

And while research indicates that kids of gay parents show few differences in achievement, mental health, social functioning and other measures, these kids may have the advantage of open-mindedness, tolerance and role models for equitable relationships, according to some research. Not only that, but gays and lesbians are likely to provide homes for difficult-to-place children in the foster system, studies show. (Of course, this isn’t to say that heterosexual parents can’t bring these same qualities to the parenting table.)

Adopting the neediest

Gay adoption recently caused controversy in Illinois, where Catholic Charities adoption services decided in November to cease offering services because the state refused funding unless the groups agreed not to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Rather than comply, Catholic Charities closed up shop.

Catholic opposition aside, research suggests that gay and lesbian parents are actually a powerful resource for kids in need of adoption. According to a 2007 report by the Williams Institute and the Urban Institute, 65,000 kids were living with adoptive gay parents between 2000 and 2002, with another 14,000 in foster homes headed by gays and lesbians. (There are currently more than 100,000 kids in foster care in the U.S.)

An October 2011 report by Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute found that, of gay and lesbian adoptions at more than 300 agencies, 10 percent of the kids placed were older than 6 — typically a very difficult age to adopt out. About 25 percent were older than 3. Sixty percent of gay and lesbian couples adopted across races, which is important given that minority children in the foster system tend to linger. More than half of the kids adopted by gays and lesbians had special needs.

Good parenting

Research has shown that the kids of same-sex couples — both adopted and biological kids — fare no worse than the kids of straight couples on mental health, social functioning, school performance and a variety of other life-success measures.

In a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parenting, New York University sociologist Judith Stacey and University of Southern California sociologist Tim Biblarz found no differences between children raised in homes with two heterosexual parents and children raised with lesbian parents.

Nurturing tolerance

In fact, the only consistent places you find differences between how kids of gay parents and kids of straight parents turn out are in issues of tolerance and open-mindedness, according to Goldberg. In a paper published in 2007 in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Goldberg conducted in-depth interviews with 46 adults with at least one gay parent. Twenty-eight of them spontaneously offered that they felt more open-minded and empathetic than people not raised in their situation.

“These individuals feel like their perspectives on family, on gender, on sexuality have largely been enhanced by growing up with gay parents,” Goldberg said.

One 33-year-old man with a lesbian mother told Goldberg, “I feel I’m a more open, well-rounded person for having been raised in a nontraditional family, and I think those that know me would agree. My mom opened me up to the positive impact of differences in people.”

producermatthew:

Cupertino high school student Angela Zhang may know the cure for cancer: As a freshman, she started reading doctoral-level papers on biological engineering. By her sophomore year in high school, she managed to convince Stanford University to let her use their laboratories, and by junior year, she began doing her own research that led her to develop a recipe that boggles even her chemistry teacher.

Zhang’s recipe won her a $100,000 award at a national science competition sponsored by Siemens.

Her method of curing cancer by aiming an infrared light at mutated cells killed cancer in mice; it will be a few more years before it can be determined if the method works in humans. Nevertheless, Zhang’s three years of research is considered a breakthrough. [CBS News]

ratsoff:

By Mira Ptacin and Seth Fried

+: )    Ash Wednesday

+; )    Flirty Ash Wednesday

 : F    Bored snake

[>: (  Fire Bad

[I: I    Ice neither good nor bad; me ambivalent

,:” I    Attacked by cat

:%I    Lowering glasses to see if you’re serious

;%)    Lowering glasses to see if you’re feeling what I’m feeling

:»q   Accidentally spraying self in eye with mace

O0o   No one in my family has any response to what you just said

<:#    Hitler birthday party

<;#    Flirty Hitler birthday party

X;<)   Flirty triceratops

X,<)   Flirty triceratops cyclops

P       Soup ladle

;P      Flirty soup ladle

}: I     Wolverine

{: I     Frida Kahlo

@: I    Combover

:o)     Bear missing ears

:^ u   Abject horror

;^ u   Flirty abject horror

: i      Cold sore

; i      Flirty cold sore

animalstalkinginallcaps:

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEVER SEE? NEOCON LEGISLATORS AND HEDGE FUND OPERATORS OPENLY ATTACKING THE TEA PARTY OR FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS OR ANY OF THE OTHER RADICAL CONSERVTIVE GROUPS THAT GRAB ALL THE HEADLINES. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE NOTHING THEY’RE DOING HARMS THE OVERALL AGENDA OF DEREGULATION AND CORPORATE GREED. THEY USE THOSE PEOPLE TO EITHER BOLSTER THEIR NUMBERS OR DISTRACT FROM WHAT THEY’RE DOING AND IN THE END THEY ALWAYS GET WHAT THEY’RE AFTER.

LIBERALS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS SPEND ALMOST ALL OF THEIR TIME INFIGHTING AND BICKERING OVER WHOSE CAUSE IS MORE IMPORTANT OR WHO’S SAYING THINGS THE “RIGHT” WAY AND NOTHING EVER GETS ACCOMPLISHED. THEY ATTACK LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WHO AREN’T HURTING THEIR CAUSES OR ARE AT LEAST HURTING THEM LESS THAN A MILLION OTHER ACTUAL THREATS BECAUSE ONLY LIKE-MINDED LIBERALS GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THOSE CAUSES AND PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. TELL THE AVERAGE OBAMA-HATING REDNECK TO CHECK HIS PRIVILEGE SOMETIME AND SEE WHERE IT GETS YOU. TELL THE BOARD AT BANK OF AMERICA THEY DON’T PAY ENOUGH ATTENTION TO PEOPLE OF COLOR WHEN THEY’RE SIPHONING A COUPLE BILLION FROM THE FED. YOU SEE MORE ANTI-O.W.S. LITERATURE FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE MAJORS THAN YOU DO FROM CONSERVATIVE NEWSPAPERS.

THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT ISN’T FIGHTING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OR THE PATRIARCHY. THEY’RE FIGHTING RICH ASSHOLES WHO HAVE STOLEN MONEY FROM EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND THE LAWMAKERS WHO HAVE HELPED THEM DO SO. OF COURSE FEMINIST AND MINORITY CAUSES ARE IMPORTANT, BUT INSTEAD OF LETTING O.W.S. FOCUS ON WHAT IT’S ABOUT, WHICH IS GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS AND ENDING ECONOMIC DISPARITY IN AMERICA, IT’S EATEN FROM WITHIN BY PEOPLE IT WOULD BENEFIT, JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER THING “THE LEFT” TRIES TO ACCOMPLISH, BECAUSE “THE LEFT” CAN’T LEARN TO AGREE TO DISAGREE LONG ENOUGH TO ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING WHILE “THE RIGHT” JUST ROLLS ALONG MERRILY, GETTING WHAT IT WANTS IN BITS AND PIECES BY USING THE TOOLS (AKA PEOPLE) IT HAS AT HAND. I MEAN, JESUS, THE TEA PARTY PEOPLE WERE SITTING AROUND, UNINSURED, ARGUING AGAINST SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE. THAT’S SOME AMAZING PUPPETEERING ON THE PART OF THOSE IN POWER, BUT ALSO SOMETHING WE MIGHT WANT TO THINK ABOUT. CAN THE BILLIONS OF LEFTIST SPLINTER GROUPS GO AGAINST THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST LONG ENOUGH TO ACCOMPLISH A SINGLE UNIVERSALLY BENEFICIAL GOAL?

ONE STEP AT A TIME. USE THE ANGRY STRAIGHT WHITE PEOPLE TO GET THE MUCH SHITTIER STRAIGHT WHITE PEOPLE OUT OF POWER, THEN GO FROM THERE. IF THE MOVEMENT IS SUCCESSFUL THERE WILL BE LESS MONEY IN POLITICS FROM THE SUPER-RICH, ALLOWING ACTUAL PRODUCTIVE LEGISLATION TO PASS BECAUSE IT WON’T BE BEING INFLUENCED OR COCKBLOCKED BY THE ELITE. SURE, IT’S NOT INSTANT UTOPIA BUT IT’S BETTER THAN THE CURRENT SYSTEM, AND IT WOULD REPLACE PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT MINORITY GROUPS WITH PEOPLE WHO AT LEAST MIGHT. 

MAYBE THE ANSWER ISN’T “SMASH THE STATE” BUT “CHIP AWAY AT THE STATE, STEADILY, PIECE BY PIECE, USING THE STATE AGAINST ITSELF, UNTIL WE HAVE A NEW STATE.” THAT’S HOW THEY BUILT IT, AFTER ALL. ONE BRICK AT A TIME.

… OR WE COULD JUST KEEP ARGUING WITH EACH OTHER. THAT SEEMS TO BE WORKING. 

Who’s a pretty birdie? You are! Listen to your little chirpies! 

I HOPE YOU AND THAT NAPKIN YOU CALL A SHIRT ARE TRAPPED IN A FIRE.