February 2012
6 posts
Grave: A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical...
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)
cited in Atul Gawande’s fascinating article about autopsies, “Final Cut”
When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...
– Rudy Rucker (via wilwheaton)
I wouldn’t characterize the ’40s as a non-technological, slow-paced garden of Eden, but I’m so behind the sentiment on this one.
(via linearbbq)
“THOSE DAMN KIDS AND THEIR SMARTPHONES”
this is a completely bullshit sentiment
death to generic nostalgia, i spit on...
When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...
– Rudy Rucker (via wilwheaton)
I wouldn’t characterize the ’40s as a non-technological, slow-paced garden of Eden, but I’m so behind the sentiment on this one.
No longer small and lonely, I live among the furious and joyful. We dance, sing,...
– Eli Clare, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion
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As Catholics, we help people not because they’re Catholic, but because were...
– Archbishop Thomas Wenski, on the recent law requiring every employer (religious or not) to include contraception in their health care plans. (via nique)
This is great and all, but if you actually read the interview it’s pretty obvious that he’s opposed to contraception coverage. (The...
PSA
mattachinereview:
gender-queer:
mattachinereview:
gender-queer:
mattachinereview:
It is great if you are a trans guy who wants to boost your testosterone levels with herbs, holistic methods, and anything else, as an alternative to going on T! But please stop calling it “natural transition.”
Calling it that implies that using testosterone is “unnatural.” I am using testosterone; I am...