Friday, July 25, 2008 | 7:34 pm
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“We never know what life is going to hand out to us…but the flesh and bone cage we traverse it in? No need to be ashamed over it, no matter how it looks. No need to hide it, good and bad, from the world either.” Love this; so true.
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The baby on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind is now 17 (I feel old) and a typical angsty teenager. Via Sara.
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“The gross mischaracterization of the South - especially equating residents of a major metropolitan with an outdated hillbilly stereotype - infuriates me because it’s not only unfair but wrong.” LOVE this.
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“The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling striking down the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) that required Web operators to restrict access to large amounts of constitutionally protected speech.”
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“If sex work is work, activism needs to be considered work too, and we need to get better at taking care of each other and ourselves, otherwise all this hard work will implode with no one to sustain it.”
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“Dwelling on how this incident will affect men fails to address the actual issue: the fact that a woman has been sexually assaulted. It’s important to take into account Payne’s alleged beliefs, but not in a way that takes away from the real victims of his crime: women.”
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“I’m all for investigative journalism, but there has to be something in the public interest to justify it. Exposing a person’s private, legal, consensual sexual activity is certainly not in the public interest.”
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“The distinction is truly meaningful beyond the neat way it encapsulates our inability to separate ideology from fact when it comes to thinking about mothers and their much-vaunted ‘choices.’ Unemployed people, after all, are entitled to benefits.”
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“He waited at the front of the platform until he could hear my train approaching, then he calmly stepped down on to the tracks and looked directly at me as he waited for the impact.” Wow. Via Caroline.
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