Country Mouse

From Eiland-Hall’s letter to Beck:

It bears observing that by bringing the WIPO complaint, you took what was merely one small critique meme, in a sea of internet memes, and turned it into a super-meme. Then, in pressing forward (by not withdrawing the complaint and instead filing additional briefs), you turned the super-meme into an object lesson in First Amendment principles.

…I want to demonstrate to you that I had my lawyer fight this battle only to help preserve the First Amendment. Now that it is safe, at least from you (for the time being), I have no more use for the actual scrap of digital real estate you sought…

Today I parted my hair on the right side instead of the left, and I feel happier and friendlier and less like choking people than I have in weeks.  Let this be a lesson to those of you trying to understand women. 

thedailywhat:

Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex Marriage by State and Age” (pdf) by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Created using data collected for a joint paper on gay rights.

Prof. Lax breaks it down:

Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.

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Ooooooooooooo, old folks.  How does it feel to know that after you die we’re going to let the gays marry and practice all manner of other basic rights and freedoms? 

allthingsalishan:

thecooknook:

First, they tell me Pluto is not a real planet. Then, I find out the brontosaurus isn’t real. And now this. My entire primary school education is turning out to be a complete sham.

graceinsmallthings: thebluehour:

My world was turned upside-down when an associate in publishing told me that the trend is no longer two spaces after a period and soon it will become a rule.  Schools are now teaching only one period as well. I want to go lay down in a dark room with a cold washcloth over my eyes.

Ever since J-School, I’ve cringed whenever I see two spaces after a period. That rule was thrown out the window the second I left high school.

seriously, what Julie said. What you hear is the sound of my world shattering. 

This is BS and I won’t do it.  I WON’T!

V (via thewarindrew)

cold wind // the arcade fire

GPOYW

Last night we were at the W for Lisa Borders’ election night party (like, I promise we do not just hang out there unless they’re giving things away), and guess who we saw at the hotel AGAIN getting into their car:  JERMAINE DUPRI AND PROBABLY JANET JACKSON.  It was JD and a woman with big hair and because I heard they’ve gotten back together it was definitely JANET DAMITA JO JACKSON, MUSICAL LADYGENIUS OF OUR TIME.  I died.

Kevin DeMaria’s photos of the last days of Gourmet magazine.

Lisa! Lisa!