Mitt Romney pays fourteen percent of income in taxes, and people who get out there and work for a living pay twenty five, twenty eight, thirty, thirty three percent. I get it. Mitt Romney gets a better deal than any of the rest of us, because he manages to earn his income in a way that has been specially protected for rich folks. I think that’s wrong.
–Elizabeth Warren
Senate candidate Dr. Elizabeth Warren, destroying Mitt Romney in 30 seconds on Laurence O’Donnell’s show. (via drst)
If I get the dream job and move back to Boston, I get to VOTE FOR THIS WOMAN. New new years resolution. Elect Elizabeth Warren.
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Yesssss, more Britanick all the time!
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I only love him more.
A new inclusion in the Charming Mugshot Hall of Fame.
Oh, you’re, what, it looks like…6’4”? And you carry around delicious baked goods that may or may not have special powers? You don’t say! Why yes, I would like to go out some time. Nbd.
I’ve been down. I’ve been out. Had my head and my heart kicked around.
The Gaslight Anthem - She Loves You
Can’t stop listening to this song.
If all was well and your heart could find the words, would we be for better, baby, or would we be for worse?
Barney Frank to wed longtime partner
- US Representative Barney Frank, one of the first openly gay politicians in national office, confirmed today through a spokesman that he is planning to wed his long-time partner, Jim Ready.
YESSSSSSSS
Good for them!
-Joe
Barneyyyyyy. Congratulations, my main (Congress)man!
That is the greatest typo ever. Especially as the T and L are nowhere near one another.
Further, [Jencks] makes a case that blacks are disadvantaged because the technology for constructing tests of cognitive achievement is well developed and thus tests have less error than do the measuring devices for factors such as motivation, persistence, and such. Thus, Jencks argues, when we rely on tests to allocate persons to educational and occupational positions because tests have less error than other measures, we make blacks pay for the greater investment we have made in constructing cognitive tests.
–Samuel R. Lucas, “Hope, Anguish, and the Problem of Our Time: An Essay on Publication of The Black-White Test Score Gap”
I thought people only wrote “THIS!” and underlined it a lot when they agreed with something on the internet, but I just did it in the margins of my Soc of Ed reading. If you can parse through the dense sociological jargon, he’s saying that if we put all our eggs in the testing basket and don’t devote time to understanding social forces that may affect black students ability to achieve in testing environments, then we’re doing a disservice to the exact students we’re trying to help. I dig it. (I also dig his use of the Oxford comma in the title of his article, but that’s another story. This dude is my professor, and I think he’s kind of a rockstar.)
People always say, “Be humble, be humble, be humble.” When’s the last time somebody told you, “Be great, be amazing, be awesome?” Be awesome. BE AWESOME.
–Kanye West (via thedailycourtney)
Very similar to my favorite Childish Gambino lyric, “People say that I should be more humble, and I hope they understand that they don’t listen when you mumble.” Word.
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PEN SHOWS THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THE ROCK
Aw, I remember when this was posted. Dude lived right around the corner from my apartment, and those signs were everywhere. Also his balcony was hella weird. Miss you, PDX.
Ron: Are the scissors broken in your house, son?!
Go Big or Go Home - Season 3, Episode 1
Fuck, guys, this is seriously my favorite blog.
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Chad Ochocinco, I love you and if I had my way you’d wrack up some playing time during the Super Bowl.
(Source: cajunboy)
… for real?
For REAL?
Someone tell me this is some kind of elaborate joke, because otherwise I… can’t. I just can’t. I CANNOT.
Near as I can tell, it’s real: https://www.ricksantorum.com/unite/
Oh My God I don’t know if I hate life right now or LOVE IT
I think there is some covert progressive political operative under deep deep cover within the Santorum campaign pushing this shit through, I’ll tell you what.
(Source: wilwheaton)
aha!
A guy I work with saw Maggie Gyllenhaal riding the 2 train the other day, which is almost as cool as the time I saw Paul Rudd on the F.
Also, this Venn diagram leaves out all my favorite things about my part of Brooklyn (the dangerously unhip but also not dangerous part): old Russian ladies, stores that cater exclusively to the Hasidic population that all have improbable names, the diner by my school right on the cusp of Midwood and Flatbush whose menu offers both jerk chicken and fresh bagels, the area kind of by BAM that kind of reminds me of LA for some reason, and the old-school Italian barbershop on my corner (two storefronts down from the Chinese place where you can get like ten pounds of noodles for $3).
Come on, guys! Let’s talk about the uncool parts of Brooklyn! Then we can all take a trip to Enjoy My Bagels in Bay Ridge!
[Gif 1: “The pundits have asked ‘Is this all some joke?’ I say if they are calling being allowed to form a Super PAC and collecting unlimited, untraceable amounts of money from individuals, unions and corporations and spend[sic] that money on political ads and for person[sic] enrichment and then surrender that Super PAC to one of my closest friends while I explore a run for office.
Gif 2: If that is a joke, then they are saying our entire campaign finance system is a joke]
When Colbert is on point he is always really on point.
BWAAHAHA
Sometimes this man is a fucking artist.
-Joe
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About me
Blog title is verbatim how I was described in a newspaper article. I study education policy, play competitive pinball, and am on a constant quest to find the most delicious nachos. You can call me Legs.
