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"Do you realize that the $850 billion bank bailout — that sum of money — is greater than the entire..."

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:59:32 -0400

““Do you realize that the $850 billion bank bailout — that sum of money — is greater than the entire fifty-year running budget of NASA?””

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

This seems like an appropriate quote for today.

In 2012, NASA’s budget will be less than half a percent of the total Federal Budget. This also represents 35% of the total spending on academic scientific research in the United States.

Over the past 50 years, with little more than the pocket change left over, NASA has turned science-fiction into science-fact. Space stations, human spaceflight, interplanetary exploration - this is all reality now.

Imagine what we could accomplish if we started prioritizing science.

(via spytap)

Wow. I can’t even.

(via geekyjessica)

"I met your father when he cat called me while I was walking down the street minding my own business...."

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:28:59 -0400

““I met your father when he cat called me while I was walking down the street minding my own business. It was so romantic.””

- No one, ever. (via inthislistlesslife)

thebluthcompany: I don’t think I could ever become friends with someone who calls “Arrested...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:40:11 -0400

thebluthcompany:

I don’t think I could ever become friends with someone who calls “Arrested Development” overrated.

Truth

Casablanca (1942)

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:43:22 -0400

Casablanca (1942)

Photo

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:02:30 -0400

Sexist trolls are weak. Fight back.

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:58:21 -0400

Sexist trolls are weak. Fight back.:

think-progress:

Right now, there is a disgusting campaign harassing a feminist video blogger. But the trolls are weak, Alyssa Rosenberg says:

If you so lack confidence in your ideas […] that you have to actually go out and try to prevent anyone from from saying anything that could make you remotely uneasy, you are a coward.

But it’s why, long-term, angry, petty sexists are going to lose, and why it’s important to throw up bulwarks against trolls who try to venture out of their holes and take over mainstream conversations. These ideas don’t stand-up to discussion and debate. And sexist trolls can’t shut down all of those debates, no matter how hard they try.

Read her full post at ThinkProgress.

"Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit. God is to them..."

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:23:58 -0400

“Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit. God is to them merely a word, expressing all sorts of ideas, and not a person. It is, properly speaking, a general term, which includes all that there is in common among the various deities of the world. The idea of the supernatural embodies itself in a thousand ways. Truth is always simple and the same, but error is infinitely diverse. Jupiter, Jehovah, and Mumbo-Jumbo are alike creations of human fancy, the products of ignorance and wonder. Which is the God is not yet settled. When the sects have decided this point, the question may take a fresh turn; but until then god must be considered as a generic term, like tree or horse or man; with just this difference, however, that while the words tree, horse, and man express the general qualities of visible objects, the word god expresses only the imagined qualities of something that nobody has ever seen. When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being.”

- G.W Foote (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)

abaldwin360: Another suggestion for those who want to leave...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:51:44 -0400

abaldwin360:

Another suggestion for those who want to leave America because of the SCOTUS decision on ObamaCare

think-progress: More details at ThinkProgress

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:33:26 -0400

think-progress:

More details at ThinkProgress

Remembering Nora Ephron's philosophy to "try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:05:51 -0400

Remembering Nora Ephron's philosophy to "try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.":

think-progress:

Alyssa Rosenberg’s tribute to Nora Ephron:

Her heroines were very specific people, unlike the generic publicists and event planners who populate today’s movies: in Heartburn, Rachel Samstat is a food critic, Sally, in the movie that bears her name, is a journalist (as is Annie Reed in Sleepless in Seattle), and in You’ve Got Mail, Kathleen Kelly runs a bookstore so achingly real it conjures up ghosts of the shelves where I browsed as a child.

Read more at ThinkProgress

An open letter to the guys who want to see Lara Croft get raped

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:14:51 -0400

An open letter to the guys who want to see Lara Croft get raped:

think-progress:

Just read it.

Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:47:58 -0400

Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?

huffposttv: “Breaking Bad” Season 5 new photos are full of...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:14:32 -0400

huffposttv:

“Breaking Bad” Season 5 new photos are full of scowls and menacing stares. Wouldn’t have it any other way.

Lara Croft Will Be Threatened With Rape In the Next Tomb Raider—But Don’t Worry, Guys, You Can Rescue Her

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:43:33 -0400

Lara Croft Will Be Threatened With Rape In the Next Tomb Raider—But Don’t Worry, Guys, You Can Rescue Her

thisistheverge: Apple announces next-generation 15-inch Macbook...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:51:00 -0400

thisistheverge:

Apple announces next-generation 15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display

$2199, shipping today. From the live blog? “Hot damn. Later Apple execs will be swimming through a new pile of gold coins.”

"There isn’t a single logically valid nonreligious argument against gay marriage. And if the only..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:28:37 -0400

“There isn’t a single logically valid nonreligious argument against gay marriage. And if the only argument against it is that one religion finds it offensive, then in the United States, that counts the same as having no argument at all.”

- Barrett Garese (via geekyjessica)

think-progress: Is Romney a Romnicorn? 17,000 people have...

Thu, 31 May 2012 11:43:09 -0400

think-progress:

Is Romney a Romnicorn?

17,000 people have signed a petition asking whether Romney is secretly a unicorn. They’re awaiting the Arizona investigation that may determine he is ineligible to be on the ballot.

think-progress: JCPenney is featuring a same-sex couple in its...

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:13:54 -0400

think-progress:

JCPenney is featuring a same-sex couple in its Fathers’ Day ad, following One Million Moms’ failed boycott of the store for bringing on Ellen DeGeneres.

jamanddogtags: 8bitbadguy: Finally done with this. Oh my...

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:06:28 -0400

jamanddogtags:

8bitbadguy:

Finally done with this.

Oh my goodness! That is stunning!

And I have not looked at potatoes the same since.

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:00:17 -0400

And I have not looked at potatoes the same since.