Oh man. You can tell I’m super behind on Tumblr when I get taken by that dumb Bill Cosby quick reblog post from like two weeks ago.

“Williamson County GOP chief blasts school lunches”

As more Williamson County schools begin to serve breakfast to students, the county’s Republican Party chairman, Kevin Kookogey, says it is not the role of the government to feed people….

“I am sure you have heard about this happening in other areas, but ladies and gentlemen, Williamson County, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation by any measure, is now operating under a perverse incentive to increase the number of students taking government hand-outs,” Kookogey wrote. “Of course, those handouts are courtesy of you and me, the federal taxpayers.”

Kookogey did not answer a reporter’s phone calls, but he did respond via email to questions about his comments on the breakfast program.

“This is not a complicated issue,” he said. “It is not the role of government to feed people. Government exists to protect and defend our God-given rights.”

About 12 percent of the county district’s 32,000 students qualify for free and reduced-price meals. In the 2005-06 school year, that number was 7.6 percent. In the Franklin Special School District, about 41 percent of the 3,800 students participate in free and reduced-price lunches.

What. The hell.

Floyd strongly believes a man does not belong inside a women’s restroom or dressing room, not matter the circumstances.

“I don’t care for what reason, how depraved their mind is, how perverted their mind is, or for what reason they think a man has a right to go into a women’s bathroom, or dressing room to try on clothes,” Floyd said.

His proposed bill would require a birth certificate to prove which restroom a person would be required to use….

“I’m just sick and tired of society having to adjust to every little alternate life style, or little whim or someone who thinks they’re different,” said Floyd.

Sometimes I feel like I live in the absolute worst state.

(Source: nashvillest.com)

mswyrr:

…is that he’s a domestic violence committing, female co-star intimidating asshole. You can read the details of what he did to his female partner at the link. Regarding his treatment of female costars: Kiera Knightly didn’t want him spanking her during one of their scenes in a film & said so while tied up; in reply he said “Keira, you’re tied to a bed. You’re not really in a position to say that.” So when a woman is obviously scared and uncomfortable, his response is to scare her further, really make her feel her powerlessness to control what happens to her body. So that happened. And then some of his fans talked shit about her for not fully appreciating how wonderful it would be to get nonconsensually struck by him.

Basically, I don’t understand the attraction at all. I don’t understand. I want to push him out an airlock every time I have to see his hateful face. I want him and every other man who abuses women off my fucking planet. Kinda now.

But, yanno, I also want to shout “he freaking beat his wife!” whenever I see Sean Penn, so I guess I’m just a ~sensitive bitch~.

I find it interesting that I see their faces on my dash semi-regularly (mostly Fassbender), but apparently Chris Brown’s attractiveness isn’t sufficient to make his domestic violence inconsequential.

(via thnafu)

"Women don’t get raises — even when they ask. Forever research has told women they don’t get raises because they’re not assertive enough, not because men are sexist or anything silly like that. Turns out it does have something to do with discrimination. Even pushy women don’t get raises. Looking at thousands of MBA grads, research from Catalyst, a a non-profit research organization that focuses on businesses, found no significant difference in the proportion of men and women who asked for raises or promotions. Yet, the women received slower compensation growth than the women who said nothing at all, whereas for the men it paid off."

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pushy women don’t get raises either: the atlantic

a longer article at the washington post

the original study (free access)

Fuck everything, etc etc.

(via whineandbeer)

(Source: ourcatastrophe, via inmymimeseye)

motherjones:

Today’s single-serving Tumblr idea: Regrettable Tweets From John McCain.

Remember when John McCain wasn’t horrible? But seriously, the knowledge that an 8-or-above magnitude earthquake with an epicenter less than 100 miles from my house could happen at any time used to literally keep me awake at night. The New Madrid fault zone is one of the worst in the country (that whole thing about the Mississippi briefly flowing backward in 1811 is actually true, for starters).

well-behavedwoman:

I’m a little upset that Tracy Morgan’s homophobic rants are getting all this attention when I know from a friend who attended that he also made some awful comments about how every woman gets molested and he’s sick of hearing about it. If we’re going to stand up against his hateful comedy, let’s do it. Let’s not just stand up against certain parts of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so glad the gentleman that wrote about his homophobic slurs got media attention and has put Mr. Morgan in a position where he had to apologize/is doing community service, no matter how insincere. I just wish he would have stood up for survivors as well.

From our beloved* Nashville Scene (thanks, Lauren!)

Here’s the joke and its limp punchline: “Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.”

Get it? President Obama’s that dude with the funny foreign-sounding name — not like the old days, when real Amurkins had names everyone could pronounce, like Johnny Cash. We don’t remember Republicans always pronouncing it with such fondness, since the Cash name tended to stand for nuisances such as minority rights and prison reform. But that name is sacrosanct here in Music City, and Pith hates to hear it besmirched by a political opportunist — especially one who claims that he’s an agent of change, after 18 years anchored like a tick on the legislative hide.

*mostly