January302012
thedailywhat: This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Upon arrival in Los Angeles, a pair of British buddies were interrogated for hours, placed in separate holding cells for 12 hours, and ultimately sent back to the UK. Their offense? Jokingly tweeting that they were coming to “destroy America” and “dig up Marilyn Monroe.” Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, say they were locked up with drug dealers and “treated like terrorists” all over a tweet Van Bryan sent to his friends prior to Hollywood trip with Bunting, in which he informed them that he was on his way to “destroy America.” Van Bryan and Bunting tried desperately to explain to airport officials that “destroy” was slang for “partying,” but to no avail. “The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist,” Van Bryan, a bar manager from Coventry, told The Sun. ” I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me ‘You’ve really f***ed up with that tweet, boy’.” He was also asked to explain a tweet about “diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up,” which he said was a reference to a Family Guy episode. The two were eventually put on a flight back home. “We just wanted to have a good time on holiday,” Bunting said. “That was all Leigh meant in his tweets.” A request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security was not returned. [thesun / dailymail.]

thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Upon arrival in Los Angeles, a pair of British buddies were interrogated for hours, placed in separate holding cells for 12 hours, and ultimately sent back to the UK.

Their offense? Jokingly tweeting that they were coming to “destroy America” and “dig up Marilyn Monroe.”

Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, say they were locked up with drug dealers and “treated like terrorists” all over a tweet Van Bryan sent to his friends prior to Hollywood trip with Bunting, in which he informed them that he was on his way to “destroy America.”

Van Bryan and Bunting tried desperately to explain to airport officials that “destroy” was slang for “partying,” but to no avail.

“The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist,” Van Bryan, a bar manager from Coventry, told The Sun. ” I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me ‘You’ve really f***ed up with that tweet, boy’.”

He was also asked to explain a tweet about “diggin’ Marilyn Monroe up,” which he said was a reference to a Family Guy episode.

The two were eventually put on a flight back home. “We just wanted to have a good time on holiday,” Bunting said. “That was all Leigh meant in his tweets.”

A request for comment from the Department of Homeland Security was not returned.

[thesun / dailymail.]
January292012
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For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a mere brush, encountered after a kid’s arrest, say. For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones. More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives. Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today—perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system—in prison, on probation, or on parole—than were in slavery then. Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1kuXjNdz0

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2PM

(Source: soupsoup)
January282012

Here’s the thing about history fans on the internet: Sometimes, they’re awesome. And then sometimes, they should source their god-damned shit already.

7PM
#it’s hipster merlin!!!!  #IN A LAND OF PLAID AND A TIME OF IRONIC T-SHIRTS THE DESTINY OF A GREAT SCARF RESTS ON THE SHOULDERS OF A YOUNG HIPSTER. HIS NAME… MERLIN.

#it’s hipster merlin!!!!

 #IN A LAND OF PLAID AND A TIME OF IRONIC T-SHIRTS THE DESTINY OF A GREAT SCARF RESTS ON THE SHOULDERS OF A YOUNG HIPSTER. HIS NAME… MERLIN.

(Source: glust, via sarcasticdecadence)
6PM

Bizarre Victorian fact of the day…

vicfangirlguide:

Names which Victorian parents gave their children included ‘Wonderful’, ‘Lettuce’, ‘Despair’, ‘Energetic’ and ‘Murder’.

(via 19thcentury)

January252012
yoisthisracist: Kerrie asked: is this racist/sexist? Yo, advertising people, seriously, fuck you for reinforcing fucking racist ass notions of what people’s possibilities and opportunities are. Like, genuinely, what is the point, except, OH RIGHT, you’re fucking racist assholes, all of you.

yoisthisracist:

Kerrie asked: is this racist/sexist?


Yo, advertising people, seriously, fuck you for reinforcing fucking racist ass notions of what people’s possibilities and opportunities are. Like, genuinely, what is the point, except, OH RIGHT, you’re fucking racist assholes, all of you.
3PM

Shit My Students Write: The dream of the 90s

shitmystudentswrite:

Within the 20th century, the ‘90s were hands down the greatest decade for a boy to be born and raised through. The pop-culture and technology was simply at its prime. We’ll start from the beginning. What do kids at the age from just being born to about six years old care about? That’s simple, breast milk; but more importantly, toys. Although the breast milk in the 90s was most likely delicious, there is no existing cryogenically frozen breast milk lab for me to prove it. However, I sure as hell can sell you on how awesome the toys were.

 Mmmm, cryogenically frozen  breast milk, now available at your local supermarket in the dairy section…

January242012
historical-nonfiction: St. Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow, was built by Ivan the Terrible in honor of Basil the Fool.  The story goes that in the 1500s, an apprentice shoemaker/serf named Basil stole from the rich to give to the poor. He also went naked, weighed himself with chains, and rebuked Ivan the Terrible for not paying attention in church. Normally, this is where we would write “And Ivan had him executed” but apparently Ivan liked Basil, and instead had the cathedral built for him after Basil’s death. Ivan then had the architect executed, so he could never design a more beautiful building.

historical-nonfiction:

St. Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow, was built by Ivan the Terrible in honor of Basil the Fool.  The story goes that in the 1500s, an apprentice shoemaker/serf named Basil stole from the rich to give to the poor. He also went naked, weighed himself with chains, and rebuked Ivan the Terrible for not paying attention in church. Normally, this is where we would write “And Ivan had him executed” but apparently Ivan liked Basil, and instead had the cathedral built for him after Basil’s death. Ivan then had the architect executed, so he could never design a more beautiful building.

(Source: )
10AM
mossuary: face-down-asgard-up: feminision: CYNTHIA NIXON ON BEING GAY: ‘FOR ME IT’S A CHOICE’Huffington Post  “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.” … “Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.” Read the Entire Article on Huffington Post PREACH I…kinda love this. This. Why I hate it when people try to legitimate gayness by saying it isn’t a choice. As if there is something inherently wrong with choosing to be anything other than heterosexual.

mossuary:

face-down-asgard-up:

feminision:

CYNTHIA NIXON ON BEING GAY: ‘FOR ME IT’S A CHOICE’
Huffington Post 

“I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.”

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“Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.”

Read the Entire Article on Huffington Post

PREACH

I…kinda love this.

This. Why I hate it when people try to legitimate gayness by saying it isn’t a choice. As if there is something inherently wrong with choosing to be anything other than heterosexual.

(via danikathelesbrarian)
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