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mtv: Whitney Houston in 1970 When she was 8?

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:24:17 -0500

mtv:

Whitney Houston in 1970

When she was 8?

(via Bobby Brown’s Prerogative: Knocking Up Karrine...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:12:15 -0500

(via Bobby Brown’s Prerogative: Knocking Up Karrine Steffans - The Hollywood Gossip)

You gals are pretty right about dudes. Man. (See!)

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:03:45 -0500

You gals are pretty right about dudes. Man. (See!)

"Whitney Houston is the last female pop star I can think of who didn’t rely on a slutty sexpot image..."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:02:26 -0500

“Whitney Houston is the last female pop star I can think of who didn’t rely on a slutty sexpot image to sell records.”

- @drgrist (via kateoplis)

Lord. THIS IS DUMB.

"The way she took that simple song of mine and made it such a mighty thing, it almost became her..."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:55:22 -0500

“The way she took that simple song of mine and made it such a mighty thing, it almost became her song. Some writers say, ‘Ooh, I hate the way they’ve done that to my song or that version wasn’t what I had in mind.’ I just think it’s wonderful that people can take a song and do it so many different ways.”

- Dolly Parton on Whitney Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You (via apsies)

I have heard people say to other people about me: “He likes Dolly Parton. No. Really. Like He really likes her. Unironically.”

Internet Strangers Have Let Me Down Again

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:41:53 -0500

jeffmiller:

You internet strangers have let me down again. I’m talking about the ones posted to babycenter.com and other parenting websites, suggesting that Dumbo would be a good movie for a toddler. These are things that happen in Dumbo:

A baby elephant is teased because he has big ears.

His mommy spanks a mean man who teases him.

The mommy is whipped, shackled, and placed in solitary confinement, away from her baby.

The baby is shunned by the other elephants.

The circus tent falls down and injures all of the elephants.

Clowns are mean to the baby elephant.

Clowns drink alcohol.

Clown alcohol falls into the water that the baby elephant and his mouse friend drink, and they get drunk.

Baby elephant and mouse friend have terrible, psychedelic dreams about marching elephants that bash into each other, which only makes more psychedelic elephants. The entire sequence is loud and upsetting.

Black crows (depicted in a racist manner) tease the baby elephant.

You know what makes parenting hard? Modern culture is crass and sexualized, so you’re tempted to dig back into earlier culture, which is more sanitized. Except those old artifacts are imbued with the worst things about the culture they come from, so they’re awful on race, or ethnicity, or gender. Was there a short window of time when pop culture was both kid-friendly and politically correct? Maybe in the late 1980s, for a month or two?

It’s a really, really strange movie. He doesn’t fly until the last minute and then the movie ends. It’s almost surrealist.

Asshole.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:36:01 -0500

Asshole.

"So far, the details surround Houstin’s death are unclear."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:33:02 -0500

“So far, the details surround Houstin’s death are unclear.”

- Whitney Houston — Dead at 48 | TMZ.com

Really, TMZ?

GO POP SOMEONE ELSE’S DOODY BUBBLES NOW YOU JERK!

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:29:49 -0500

GO POP SOMEONE ELSE’S DOODY BUBBLES NOW YOU JERK!

Seriously, we need to get a team of doctor’s and bodyguards over to Paisley Park. We cannot...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:23:26 -0500

Seriously, we need to get a team of doctor’s and bodyguards over to Paisley Park. We cannot have a rule of three on this one.

One way or the other, it’s Bobby Brown’s fault.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:22:43 -0500

One way or the other, it’s Bobby Brown’s fault.

Quite a day.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:18:41 -0500

Quite a day.

stfuconservatives: thefrogman: WHY DOES THIS SAY...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:21:18 -0500

stfuconservatives:

thefrogman:

WHY DOES THIS SAY “HE TELL ME” ? IT’S FUCKING DRIVING ME CRAZY.

Michiko Katukani's Favorite Basketball Player is Jeremy Limn.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:06:02 -0500

"NOTE: This piece was written before Obama announced on Friday that he will not force religious..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:23:13 -0500

“NOTE: This piece was written before Obama announced on Friday that he will not force religious institutions to pay for birth control.”

- Why Obama Health-Care Rule on Contraception Angers Catholic Democrats - The Daily Beast

NOTE: ALL OF THESE WORDS ARE WRONG (WERE ALSO WRONG BEFORE)

If you use the word cave, you deserve all of the horrible things the GOP will do to you when they...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:13:05 -0500

If you use the word cave, you deserve all of the horrible things the GOP will do to you when they run the country.

Well, the GOP seems to have no idea about how Catholics think, act or vote. They better not put all...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:11:36 -0500

Well, the GOP seems to have no idea about how Catholics think, act or vote. They better not put all the eggs in the stopping the eggs basket.

"You can follow someone on Twitter, friend them on Facebook, quote or be quoted by them in a..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:14:59 -0500

“You can follow someone on Twitter, friend them on Facebook, quote or be quoted by them in a newspaper article, but until you taste their bread, you don’t really know them.”

- David Carr (via rubenfeld)

You guys keep your damn bread to yourself.

I am history's greatest monster.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:28 -0500

I am history's greatest monster.

"President Obama has publicly condemned the Citizens United decision and has publicly opposed the..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:11:04 -0500

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President Obama has publicly condemned the Citizens United decision and has publicly opposed the role of Super PACs in campaign finance. Recently, though, he signed off on a plan to actively support Priorities USA Action, a leading Democratic Super PAC that’s had trouble raising as much money as its Republican counterparts. “We’re not going to fight this fight with one hand tied behind our back,” explained Obama’s campaign manager. “With so much at stake, we can’t allow for two sets of rules. Democrats can’t be unilaterally disarmed.”

Is this hypocritical of Obama? For the thousandth time, no, no, no. The playing field is the playing field, and once a public policy has been legally put in place you’d be a sap not to play by the same rules as everyone else. If you oppose the mortgage interest deduction as a matter of policy, you still have every right to take the deduction as long as the rest of the country keeps it in place. If you’re a Republican governor who objects to the stimulus bill, you’d be actively irresponsible not to take your share of the money once it’s there. If you oppose earmarks, you still have an obligation to your district to take them as long as they exist.

This trope needs to go away. Seriously. Just deep six it. We should never hear this nonsense again.

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- The Hypocrisy Trope That Won’t Die (via ryking)

See: “The Steroids Era” in baseball.