Wow. This argument against vaccines is possibly the worst I’ve ever heard. Next you’ll be saying vaccines cause Autism (there is no link for this. anywhere. and there never will be.)
It’s been proven false so many fucking times, but anti-vaccine people are like LOL WUT IS SCIENCE?
Also to say you’d rather your child be maimed and possibly die than have autism… SMH.
If you cut off your child’s arm, it’s called mutilation. but when a doctor does it, it’s amputation?
Educate yourself. RETHINK SURGERY.
omg perf
LOL, “RETHINK SURGERY.” Perfect.
On a different note, I’m always grateful when dumbasses don’t format text appropriately and/or misspell and/or overcapitalize (hint: six separate capitalized words is too many). It makes the crazy so much easier to spot.
I’m just going to go ahead and watch some “Supernatural” and drink some wine now.
Me, to R: Hey, do you wanna see the most awesome picture of a manatee ever?
R: Sure. Whoa….wow. That is….a giant manatee.
Me: I know, right? Manatees are absurd. Sea cows. Ha.
R: I think that’s an unusually large manatee. Like, I don’t think they’re supposed to be that big. You should Google manatees and we can compare. Maybe it’s just the way he’s sitting in the water.
Me: Ok…
R: Or, you know, I bet he’s distorted because the photo is taken through glass. I bet he’s not really that big.
Me: Why are you suddenly so invested in the size of this manatee? You’re all, “oh, I bet it’s just a bad angle for him.”
R: I think because doesn’t live in his natural habitat it’s making him unhealthy.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Sometimes I think about the fact that interstellar travel is going to be impossible during my lifetime (barring some sort of First Contact type experiment-attracts-aliens situation, which, FINGERS CROSSED). Anyway, when I think about this, and the fact that I will not see new planets, my whole body starts to hurt with sadness.
I have not updated in three weeks.
Prepare to be spammed with cute/muddy pack-‘o-dogs dogsitting photos in short order (as in, within the next few days).
Why is this not a ticket for 2012? Because I would support the FUCK out of this ticket.
When I have too many glasses of wine, sometimes I make R watch this episode with me and I get tears in my eyes and start talking about how beautiful it was that this alien society spoke only in metaphor and also how Patrick Stewart is just such a fine actor because GILGAMESH around the campfire. And he just nods his head sympathetically and waits for me to fall asleep.
Emmylou, in the other sense.
Proving definitively that gray hair can be rocked hardcore.
this song is so distracting. when it comes on i have to stop and imagine i am riding in a car with the windows down, early evening in the late summer.
Anything and everything Emmylou.
ETA: I am an idiot. Still: golden.
All in all, this has been a badass week. I may have tentative badass future plans. Some of my stuff will be airing on the ray-dee-oh, which is also badass. I feel like a badass for having turned in my thesis last Friday.
I’m like the Midas of badassery. Everything I touch turns to badass. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some badass coffee to finish.
(I should probably take up archery or boxing while this lasts.)
Gallup notes the relationship between religious intensity and American voting patterns, with the most religious states generally skewing Republican and the least religious trending Democrat. Our own analysis bears this out. We found a substantial positive correlation between religiosity and the percent of state residents that voted for McCain (.67) and consider themselves conservative (.78), and a substantial negative one between religiosity and the percent of residents who voted for Obama (-.64) and consider themselves liberal (-.75).
Religion also conforms to the faultiness of socio-economic class across U.S, states, hewing closely to its three key dimensions — income, education and occupation.
Religiosity is higher in lower income states where poverty is prevalent. The share of state residents who say religion is very important to their daily lives is correlated with the poverty rate (.60) and negatively associated with state income levels (-.56).
Education plays a role. Religiosity is higher in less educated states, and negatively associated with the share of state residents that are college grads (-.55).
Religion is also associated with the types of work people do. Religiosity is positively associated with the share of working class jobs (.61) and negatively associated with the share of workers doing knowledge, profession and creative work (-.38).
Confirming, once again, that Wyoming is a confusing and totally fascinating place.
THESIS WHISKEY
So, my thesis is due in two days, and I am sort of freaking out. But also, I am indulging in and justifying every possible vice this week by attaching the word “thesis” to it.
Thesis Third Pot of Coffee.
Thesis Mint Milanos.
Thesis Burritos.
Based on the title of this post, you can guess to what substance I’ve currently moved.
O FOR A MUSE OF FIRE, you guys.
(Vedauwoo, the Nautilus formation)
To clarify, THESIS.
All this couch time = thesis due Friday.
This weekend is going to be the outpouring of so much unburdened-ness from stress. I am going to drink beer and go dancing and climb around on some rocks.
![theatlantic:
America’s Deepening Bible Belt Divide
Gallup notes the relationship between religious intensity and American voting patterns, with the most religious states generally skewing Republican and the least religious trending Democrat. Our own analysis bears this out. We found a substantial positive correlation between religiosity and the percent of state residents that voted for McCain (.67) and consider themselves conservative (.78), and a substantial negative one between religiosity and the percent of residents who voted for Obama (-.64) and consider themselves liberal (-.75).
Religion also conforms to the faultiness of socio-economic class across U.S, states, hewing closely to its three key dimensions — income, education and occupation.
Religiosity is higher in lower income states where poverty is prevalent. The share of state residents who say religion is very important to their daily lives is correlated with the poverty rate (.60) and negatively associated with state income levels (-.56).
Education plays a role. Religiosity is higher in less educated states, and negatively associated with the share of state residents that are college grads (-.55).
Religion is also associated with the types of work people do. Religiosity is positively associated with the share of working class jobs (.61) and negatively associated with the share of workers doing knowledge, profession and creative work (-.38).
Read more. [Image: Gallup]
Confirming, once again, that Wyoming is a confusing and totally fascinating place.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1nyusPeaF1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
