sunyata:sometimesagreatnotion:rebeccalando:urbanfoodie:
Guess That Mystery Substance (photo from Fooducate.com)!
A) Strawberry ice cream
B) Chicken
C) Plastic foam
D) None of the above
Hint: I hope you already digested your lunch. Click here for the answer.
Thanks to regilovesveggies for the link!
*vomit*
Oh god. Seriously. I think I just died a bit on the inside.
I Couldn't Say It Better: Florida Says Yes to Beating Kids, No to Gays Adopting»
This is one of the best juxtapositions of backwards Florida laws I have seen.
Glenna Milberg’s blog, Milberg’s Musings, recently had a great entry called “Who’s Your Daddy”, which looked at two different court cases happening at the same time in South Florida. One was a child abuse case against a man named Loscar Rodriguez, a father who “disciplined” his kid so much that they couldn’t sit down because of the welts and bruises. The other was the case of Frank Gil, the gay man who is fighting to adopt two boys he fostered, which might just overturn Florida’s ridiculous ban on gays adopting.
The outcomes of the two cases? The abuse case was dismissed in 12 minutes. The adoption case will take months, with more appeals sure to come. Milbank’s conclusion is dead on:
Florida law bans gay people from adopting children. But it protects the right to beat a child with an object until he/she is black and blue.
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I AM SO RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY IT’S RIDICULOUS
So you guys know I’m pretty much in love with Ari Fish, right? Whether you know her too, or you watch Project Runway, or whatever. Well, she’s in Berlin right now, with my other favorite person ever, Peggy Noland. (and I miss them dearly.) And they wrote a giant “Kansas City Dedication” on the wall of a club, with the names of all the great people/places in KC. And if you’ll observe, towards the bottom, it says “Sophie Haddad.” It pretty much made my day.
