son of the nuclear a-bomb

Supervisor: Why?

Me: There’s a cat gang bang happening on top of my car.

Supervisor: (silence)

Supervisor: Well can’t you break it up?

Me: Who am I to break up a cat gang bang? They’ve probably been organizing it for days on Craigslist.

Remember the 90s? Remember just like a month ago? Well now you remember both, with Semi-Charmed Call.

and you realise

NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby, is inviting Romney to “spend a day with Catholic Sisters who work every day to meet the needs of struggling families in their communities,” according to a release. The group is specifically targeting Romney a day after his campaign released a misleading ad about welfare reform that Sister Simone Campbell, NETWORK’s executive director, said “demonize[s] families in poverty” and shows Romney’s “ignorance about the challenges” the poor face in America:

“Recent advertisements and statements from the campaign of Governor Romney demonize families in poverty and reflect woeful ignorance about the challenges faced by tens of millions of American families in these tough economic times,” stated Sister Simone Campbell. “We are all God’s children and equal in God’s eyes. Efforts to divide us by class or score political points at the expense of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters reveal the worst side of our country’s politics.”

Romney has endorsed the House GOP budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). It was that plan, which includes deep cuts to food stamps and other safety net programs that benefit the middle class, that NETWORK’s Nuns On A Bus tour targeted, with Campbell and other sisters blasting it as “immoral” at the tour’s conclusion in Washington D.C. Romney has also proposed massive tax cuts for the rich that would likely come at the expense of lower- and middle-class families, which would see higher taxes or significant cuts to the programs they depend on.

Those policies, Campbell told ThinkProgress, show that Romney “doesn’t have clue” about the struggles the poor face. “The fact is, his policies shift wealth to the upper class,” she said. “Yes, it hurts the middle class, but it devastates those at the margins of our society.” If Romney were to accept their invitation, Campbell said she would take him to places like St. Augustine’s in Cleveland, where food programs “provide a hand up” to the community’s neediest members. “He thinks they’re lazy,” Campbell said, in reference to Romney’s misleading welfare reform ad. “It is hard work to keep things together when you’re poor. He doesn’t have a clue. Let him talk to them, and maybe they’ll touch his heart. And his mind too.”

If you’re white, YOU ARE NOT TROY DAVIS OR TRAYVON MARTIN AND YOU NEVER WILL BE. DEAL WITH IT.

Stop referring to black PEOPLE as “blacks”. I AM NOT A GOD DAMN ADJECTIVE!

Acknowledging and checking your privilege doesn’t “reaffirm that PoC are lower than white people”. Ignoring your privilege does that.

You need to come to terms with the fact that you more than likely can better relate to the shooter than the victim, and it’s only by some miracle that you haven’t been in the position to be the one pulling the trigger. As a white person, you need to educate yourself and realize your white privilege and pray to whatever god(s) you may have that you never actually actively participate in the death of another human being.

Regarding the vegan thing: Resources are an issue. Just because you’re privileged enough to live in an area not PLAGUED by a food desert doesn’t mean that everyone else is. I mean, I live in Chicago—-whose school system now considers pizza a vegetable because they just don’t have access to proper nutrition. If you want to see more people become vegan/vegetarian, or even just if you care about people’s nutrition at all, ADVOCATE FOR BETTER ACCESS TO FOOD. ADVOCATE FOR LESS SUBSIDIES FOR THE UNHEALTHY SHIT, WHILE PROMOTING SUBSIDIES FOR FRUITS/VEGETABLES. Volunteer or donate to one of the many organizations that are promoting community gardens and gifting people supplies/showing them how to grow their own food.

Poor Lil Paul Ryan of the Day: GOP vice presidential pick Paul Ryan is a huge Rage Against the Machine fan.  The feeling isn’t exactly mutual, as a brutal op-ed in the latest Rolling Stone by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello makes clear:

 Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. …  I wonder what Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of “F**k the Police”? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!  Don’t mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta “rage” in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he’s not raging against is the privileged elite he’s groveling in front of for campaign contributions.