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    WTH?!?

        Good Lord. Suspected Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a dang fan club. From The Gothamist:   As Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived at court today, about a…

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    On the 4th.

    Painting by Frederic Edwin Church, 1861, oil on paper, “Our Banner in the Sky”, H/T: http://www.urbancure.org/     My friend Aja sent me an email that had the picture above in there. After…

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    It’s a Barbie World.

      Check out “normal” Barbie, a doll created with realistic proportions. From Huff Po:   Artist Nickolay Lamm of MyDeals.com used CDC measurements of an average 19-year-old woman to create a 3-D…

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    The Real Mad Men

      Move over Don, Roger, Peggy and Joan. It’s time to meet the real men and women of Madison Ave, courtesy of Thirteen. I watched the premiere last night, and definitely recommend…

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    Unpatriotic, jerky fail.

        And the fails keep coming. From Upworthy:   An IRS contractor hurt his foot playing football in military prep school. He never served in the actual military. Then one day,…

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    Not so radical notions of Feminists.

    (Source)   I don’t identify as a feminist. Not first wave, second wave, third wave or wavy wave. I don’t like lots of labels, and this one, for me, is particularly problematic.…

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    On Paula Deen & the N-word.

    (NPR)     I so thought I’d skip the whole Paula Deen kerfluffle with just yesterday’s quick mention. And I really was going to leave it alone because like everything celeb-related, the…

  • America’s Worst Charities

    SMH. From CNN:   The worst charity in America operates from a metal warehouse behind a gas station in Holiday, Florida.   Every year, Kids Wish Network raises millions of dollars in…

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    Their stories.

    Soher Ebrahim     This week, I watched and read about three teenage girls who do to their gender and culture, have suffered greatly, one to the point of death. First, from…

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    The Windowfarms Project

        This is so cool! My friend Maria passes along this video: