explore-blog:

Exactly twenty years after Andrew Sullivan’s seminal essay “The Politics of Homosexuality,” Minnesota state representative Tim Faust (D) delivers an absolutely extraordinary, stirring speech on marriage equality, leading the Minnesota House to pass the same-sex marriage bill with a vote of 79:59.

Well, I have to start by admitting that not too long ago, I probably would have voted ‘no’ on this bill, but in the past there have been a couple things that changed my mind on this… . The question that keeps going through my mind over and over again is, “Do we, as a society, have the right to impose our religious beliefs on somebody else?” A right that I have taken for granted, and most of the people in this room have taken for granted, since the day we realized what the opposite sex is. That is a right I have taken for granted for a long time, and yet some people, because of others’ religious beliefs, do not have that right.

[…]

Last summer, I got married. And, before that, I had dated a woman for four years. And she was a wonderful woman, and I realized, after four years, that I could’ve married her and I would’ve been happily married to her for the rest of my life. But I also realized I could be happy without her. And I decided, after four years, that I wasn’t going to marry somebody I could live with — if I got married again, it was going to be to somebody I could not live without. And so we broke up.

And in a few months, I met my wife. And it didn’t take me very long to realize this was somebody I could not live without. And how lucky I am, how lucky we are. And yet, in this state, there are people that feel that way about each other, that cannot live without that other person, that feel the same way they do about each other that I feel about my wife — and yet, because of religious beliefs of other people, they do not have the right that I have taken for granted since the day I realized what the opposite sex was.

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alexandraerin: popelizbet: stillalivedoingscience: perpetualvelocity: almighty-werebereus: So Portal Fans. This Exists. oh my god ohmyGOD IT’S CAPTIONED “SPEEDY THING GOES IN SPEEDY THING GOES OUT” I can’t what is going on need this now please. This was a triumph.

alexandraerin:

popelizbet:

stillalivedoingscience:

perpetualvelocity:

almighty-werebereus:

So Portal Fans. This Exists.

oh my god

ohmyGOD IT’S CAPTIONED “SPEEDY THING GOES IN SPEEDY THING GOES OUT” I can’t

what is going on

need this now please.

This was a triumph.


Track Title: Kids In America

Artist: Kim Wilde

Album: Kim Wilde

therecordvault:

Kim Wilde | Kids In America


"He’s my first reader and we know each other very well and, unless he thinks something is disastrous, in the first instance he’s encouraging and vague: ‘Keep at it. Keep going’ and when there’s a draft and it’s possible to be a more critical reader in a productive way, then he will be, but if I showed him 20 pages, he won’t start doing line edits or say, ‘This character needs more development on page four,’ you know. He won’t do that. He’ll just say, ‘Keep going. That’s great.’ … But he will [be more critical] later on. He’s well trained."
— Novelist Claire Messud tells Terry Gross about the living-working relationshipwith her husband, The New Yorker fiction critic, James Wood. (via nprfreshair)

typette: adriofthedead: baby no don’t eat your foots your foots is not food no you eat all the foots you want to eat little kitten

typette:

adriofthedead:

baby no

don’t eat your foots

your foots is not food

no

you eat all the foots you want to eat little kitten


honorary-winchester-boy:

thewordsmithy:

You know the phrase, “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus”? I think non-binary people are from Pluto. People don’t recognize us as a gender/planet, but we’re still there.

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captaincrapster: And that’s when I realized

captaincrapster:

And that’s when I realized



Track Title: Obsession

Artist: .hack//Sign

Album: See-Saw

handsomesquid:

Obsession - See-saw


marowakghost:

James’s friend Growlie.