so very clever

In Legalize Polygamy: Marriage Equality for All, Jillian Keenan...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:33:00 -0700

In Legalize Polygamy: Marriage Equality for All, Jillian Keenan argues in favor of striking down laws banning polygamy in this country. She has some solid points, though I’m disappointed at the lack of acknowledgement of multi-partner families with different structures, i.e. polyandry.

If we were to legalize multiple-partner marriages of any kind, I would see it as a step backward rather than forward to isolate such rights to husbands with multiple wives. Despite this (admittedly rather large) oversight, her perspective is worth a quick read. Here’s a sample:

Legalizing consensual adult polygamy wouldn’t legalize rape or child abuse. In fact, it would make those crimes easier to combat.

Right now, all polygamous families, including the healthy, responsible ones, are driven into hiding (notwithstanding the openly polygamous Brown family on TLC’s Sister Wives, that is). In the resulting isolation, crime and abuse can flourish unimpeded. Children in polygamous communities are taught to fear the police and are not likely to report an abusive neighbor if they suspect their own parents might be caught up in a subsequent criminal investigation. In a United States with legalized polygamy, responsible plural families could emerge from the shadows—making it easier for authorities to zero in on the criminals who remain there.

source: Slate via Sex at Dawn

Non-Fiction Addiction

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:56:14 -0700

Non-Fiction Addiction:

tetw:

A forum for readers

Since January we’ve been really enjoying the non-fiction reading recommendations of Non-Fiction Addiction, a new support group for hardcore longform addicts. That’s why decided put them in chare of The Electric Typewriter for a day… get ready for an overdose of classic reads…

Mmmmm yes please

millionsmillions: “I think digestion is another lurid, taboo...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:15 -0700

millionsmillions:

“I think digestion is another lurid, taboo subject — particularly from the navel down. But even what goes on in the mouth is an unthinkable, revolting thing that no one wants to think about. There was a sense that this was right up my stinky little alley.”

Eat, Drink, and Read Mary: The Millions Interviews Mary Roach

I have such an enormous amount of respect for Mary Roach. In case you missed it, she was also recently on The Daily Show and had Jon Stewart in giggling like a schoolboy the whole time. Very worth a watch.

Solid gold.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:29:39 -0700

Solid gold.

from adweek: Gil Zamora is an FBI-trained forensics artist with...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:54:54 -0700

from adweek:

Gil Zamora is an FBI-trained forensics artist with over 3,000 criminal sketches under his belt. Dove and Ogilvy Brazil hired him to interview and draw seven different women—two sketches of each. The first sketch was based on each woman’s personal description of herself. The second was based on a description provided by a stranger the woman had just met. Of course, the differences are vast. Watching these women come face to face with the version of themselves in their mind and the version everyone else sees is extraordinary. It’s one of the most original and touching experiments to come from the Campaign for Real Beauty in ages.

Love this. See more about it on Dove’s site.

The voice on her! Ugh, just listen. It’s perfect. And...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:08:04 -0700

The voice on her! Ugh, just listen. It’s perfect. And heartbreaking. One of their newest videos. Their older ones are equally compelling.

found your tumblr from your Coursera tumblr. I enjoyed reading your posts. Love the theme on your blogs. What is it?

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:59:00 -0700

Thanks! The theme is called Fluid Neue - you can download it here (most of Pixel Union’s themes cost money, but this one is free) or just use the “customize” button on the top of your blog and scroll through the free themes until you find it. : )

*** after publishing this just now, I went to your blog and realized that you had already found the theme you were looking for. Oh well, I tried! Good luck in class : )

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment: mgann-morzz: twigwise: silencing...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:03:55 -0700

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

mgann-morzz:

twigwise:

silencingthedrums:

ggallifreyann:

doctorfeelbad:

couragemadnessfriendshiplove:

world-shaker:

Want to collaborate on a Google Doc with Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Dickinson, Dickens and Poe?

Click here. Start typing. Enjoy the hilarity.

Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens.

Poe kept writing distinctly into my sentences so I wrote ”Edgar, you’re not funny” aND HE BLATANTLY DELETED THE NOT I AM SO DONE WITH THIS ASDFKJL

OH GOD IF YOU TYPE “EDGAR ALLAN POE” POE ADDS A :( AFTER HIS NAME PRECIOUS BABY

DICKENS SAID POE WAS A TORTURED SOUL AND I SAID DICKENS WAS RIGHT THEN DICKINSON CHANGED IT TO DICKINSON AND THEY JUST KEPT GOING BACK AND FORTH

THIS IS GREAT

I’m copypasting my porn into this and it’s FUCKING HILARIOUS

THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR ME OH MY GOD

http://goo.gl/QrWtf

Edgar Allen Poe “ I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

An argument began when I posted something negative about him, and everyone else chimed in, then he put in a frown-y face. “Edgar Allen Edgar the ever tormented and woeful soul; Poe :( is not funny. ”

Guys.

Try this.

It is actually the best thing ever.

I am not kidding.

- Pen

kisscassandra: I have no frigging clue how this multiple blog business works. Any random stats...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:10:00 -0700

kisscassandra:

I have no frigging clue how this multiple blog business works. Any random stats stuff that shambles across your dash from me means I fail at multiblogging. Oops.

I’m so with you. I’m pretty sure I just followed your main blog and not your stats blog. This should really be less complicated.

Passion Driven Statistics

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:25:11 -0700

I’ll be posting all of my Passion Driven Statistics blog entries on my secondary Tumblr: passionstatsviatracy

Full disclosure: This isn’t the funniest thing I’ve...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:13:53 -0800

Full disclosure: This isn’t the funniest thing I’ve seen online recently, but anyone who actively uses Tumblr will identify with the *facepalm* inducing authenticity. Worth a watch anyway, if only to remind yourself that you’re not the only one who has a love-hate relationship with Tumblr.

(via Jezebel)

If you, like me, haven’t interacted with a sewing needle...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:37:43 -0800

If you, like me, haven’t interacted with a sewing needle since high school Home-Ec, there are options here that don’t require anything more than scissors! Yusss.

buzzfeedmusic:

14 Cute DIYs To Make An Old Band T-Shirt Cool Again

How is it that all of your concert t-shirts are, like, XXXXXXL? Here’s how to make ‘em look great.

Evolution of the C-Word

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:57:00 -0800

Evolution of the C-Word:

My, but it is fun to say.

Note: In case this isn’t obvious, there is some colorful language in this article — but it is used for explanation, not provocation.

(source: Slate.com)

D’awww… Silly, but sweet. This is the Oscar winner...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:29:10 -0800

D’awww…

Silly, but sweet. This is the Oscar winner for “Best Animated Short”.

"Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently by Raul Gutierrez Trees talk to each other at night. All fish..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:17:00 -0800

“Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently by Raul Gutierrez

Trees talk to each other at night.
All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.
Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose.
Tiny bears live in drain pipes.
If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.
The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago.
Everyone knows at least one secret language.
When nobody is looking, I can fly.
We are all held together by invisible threads.
Books get lonely too.
Sadness can be eaten.
I will always be there.”

- Raul Gutierrez, “Lies I’ve Told My 3-Year-Old Recently” (via words-in-lines)

(image source: The Educated Imaginary)

sicanettewrites: Who the hell is playing Jumanji? Just too...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:04:30 -0800

sicanettewrites:

Who the hell is playing Jumanji?

Just too good.

I’m hoping that this film succeeds where...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:50:13 -0800

I’m hoping that this film succeeds where “Sicko” failed. The healthcare system in this country is broken beyond repair, and if this film can present that without the snarky, alarmist, alienating attitude Michael Moore inevitably inserts into all of his films, we might actually get somewhere with people who don’t already agree with us.

(via UpWorthy)

Coursera Blog: Five Courses Receive College Credit Recommendations

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:00:36 -0800

Coursera Blog: Five Courses Receive College Credit Recommendations:

This is great news! I hope that this is just a small taste of a trend we will see growing in the future.

coursera:

Coursera is committed to seeing that our courses meet our students’ educational goals, from simply experiencing the joy of learning something new, to seeking improved employment opportunities, to working towards a degree. To this end, we are proud to announce that the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) has evaluated and recommended college credit for five courses on Coursera. Many students face enormous financial obstacles in pursuit of their degrees. We want to help more students enter college with credit already accrued and exit college on time, on budget and with a degree in hand.

This Is My Body (by Jason Stefaniak and Siobhan...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:28:00 -0800

This Is My Body (by Jason Stefaniak and Siobhan O’Loughlin)

Yes, most of these things have been said before — in many different mediums, by many different people — but there’s something very, VERY personal and powerful about this monologue. There is a palpable passion in these women that demands your attention and dares you to defy them.

Yes, I like this approach.

Women like these are the stuff of nightmares for conservative, white, middle-aged Washington. You know, those men who have obviously never satisfied a woman, but either believe they have or, worse yet, see no value in trying. The ones whose collective verbal diarrhea confirms again and again that they are as ignorant about our bodies and minds as they hope we are about their blatant, panicked attempts to legislate their way to a renewed male dominance.

I want to see them shaking in their boots. I want to scare them. It feels good.

But even more than that, I want to get through to them.

So watch this video. And then join the project and make one of your own. Because we can all act individually, and we can all click “like” or “repost”, but the bigger this gets, the harder it will be to ignore.

Let’s get scary, ladies.

(via UpWorthy)

nakedme: This is a call out to participate in the skinestry...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:35:24 -0800

nakedme:

This is a call out to participate in the skinestry project

YES.