December 2011
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“At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help:...”
– At Kmart stores, Santa gets help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts - The Washington Post (via iamdavidbrothers)
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"The Railing"
A child stood on his seat in a restaurant, holding the railing of the chairback, as though to address a courtroom, “Nobody knows what’s going to happen next.” Then his turning-slide back down to his food, relieved and proud to say the truth, as were we to hear it.
Coleman Barks Athens, Georgia 1999
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Keanu Reeves Week:... →
brightwalldarkroom:
It used to be that almost every kid you knew wanted to be an astronaut when they grew up. I don’t know any kids who want to be astronauts now.
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To men who don't think rape jokes are a problem →
Don’t reassure rapists. (via)
…this post in particular is addressed to men, not because women don’t rape and women don’t make/laugh at rape jokes and not because men can’t be raped, but because, by nature of the existing gender disparity, men are in a unique position to be taken seriously when they raise objections to casual language and humor regarding rape....
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