An abstinence-focused sex education class in East Lansing, Michigan recently received a shock when one student’s sex-positive mother sat in on the proceedings — and hilariously live-tweeted them.
Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, was invited by her son to join his abstinence-only sex education class, to see, in her words, “how bad it is.”
Dreger has a fair amount of experience in the sexuality arena — she’s written prominently about the value of pleasure, given a TED talk on the power of anatomy and regularly tweets about the importance of sex positivity — so she knows what she’s talking about when it comes to sex.
Unfortunately for her son’s sex education instructor, this meant that the class was ripe for public shaming.
Furkids animal shelter’s hilarious ‘Kitty Kommercial’ is going viral, and it proves you don’t need a high-budget to produce a masterpiece! The rescue organization has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, so it was only fitting to feature a native Atlantan Paul Preston as the main character in a brilliantly improvised video that took only 30 minutes to film.
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While seeing Preston perform like a used car salesman to get the cats adopted will definitely crak you up, it’s important to note that in real life the man is no comedian. Preston is a contractor with a rental property management company, who just happens to be a funny guy.
Actually, it was his sister who originally came up with the idea for the commercial. She is a regular volunteer at Furkids, and couldn’t think of anyone better than her brother to be featured in the video.
Our verdict? Purrr-fection! Now go and adopt some cats.
Furkids animal shelter’s ‘Kitty Kommercial’ proves you don’t need a high-budget to produce a masterpiece!
The video was completely improvised and took around 30 minutes to make
Dov Katz, a senior Oculus employee who was arrested in December after allegedly trying to solicit sex from an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old girl, pleaded not guilty today at his arraignment in the King County Superior Court. Katz is formally charged with “attempted commercial sexual abuse…
During the election, Donald Trump fessed up to over $300 million in debt. But as it turns out, there was a huge deficit in his deficit reporting.
Last May, Mr. Trump filed a financial-disclosure form with the Federal Election Commission that listed 16 loans worth $315 million that his businesses had received from 10 companies, including Deutsche Bank AG. But that form reported debts only for companies he controls, excluding more than $1.5 billion lent to partnerships that are 30%-owned by him.
Many of Trump’s debts have been bundled up and traded off to companies other than the banks where they originated. The Wall Street Journal doesn’t shy away from what this means.
As a result, a broader array of financial institutions now are in a potentially powerful position over the incoming president. If the Trump businesses were to default on their debts, the giant financial institutions that serve as so-called special servicers of these loan pools would have the power to foreclose on some of Mr. Trump’s marquee properties or seek the tens of millions of dollars that Mr. Trump personally guaranteed on the loans.
Donald Trump’s finances are a intentionally confusing, tangled swamp in which Trump helms 516 different “companies,” many of which exist only to own other companies. It’s designed to allow Trump to take advantage of as many tax breaks as possible, and to make it difficult for anyone to track what he really owns, or owes.
But it’s clear that Trump is over the barrel to 150 companies for three times the amount he admitted during the campaign. And that’s not all.
At 1:13 PM EST the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution that will begin the process of repealing Obamacare. The final vote tally was 51-48. The resolution instructs the House to have a repeal bill ready by January 27.
Seven years ago, on December 24, 2009, the Senate voted 60-39 to pass Obamacare. All Republicans voted against it, all Democrats voted for it.
“Today, we take the first steps to repair the nation’s broken health care system, removing Washington from the equation and putting control back where it belongs: with patients, their families, and their doctors,” Republican Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee who sponsored the legislation, said in a statement.
Republicans did not have the 60 votes needed to repeal Obamacare, so they opted to defund it via a budget resolution, which only requires a simple majority.
“That means they can essentially gut the law, removing all the subsidies that help low- and middle-income people buy health insurance and getting rid of the smorgasbord of taxes — on medical devices, insurance companies and wealthy individuals — that pay for those subsidies,” NPR explained.
Republicans, despite having voted more than 60 times to repeal Obamacare, have never had a legitimte replacement plan. It is widely reported that they will take two to four years to replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving up to 30 million Americans without insurance, and many paying exceptionally high premiums for having pre-existing conditions, including HIV, diabetes, cancer, and even pregnancy.
Repealing Obamacare also devastates Medicare, and will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Donald Trump uring the presidential campaign promised he would never touch Social Security or Medicare.
Concerned citizens can call lawmakers in the House and Senate at 202-224-3121.
Concerned citizens can call lawmakers in the House and Senate at 202-224-3121.
CALL. THEM.
Virtually everyone I know would lose their health care including possibly us. This is actually the first time in my adult life I have had health care period which means I have years and years of possible health issues to catch up which in itself could take years more.
If you’re a mother, you probably know how precious alone time is. Moms don’t get to enjoy it very often so when they finally do, they have to think of a perfect way to spend it… Laundry? Exercise? Nap? Bathe? Nope.
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Alone time when you’re a mother is actually way different, and mother of quadruplet girls, Ashley Gardner, has summed it up perfectly in the video below. Shared by Colieoh on Reddit just yesterday, the video has gone viral since. Keep on scrolling to take a look!
Design is available here! Just print out on 8.5x11″ paper, cut along the gray lines, paint the back of the paper with craft glue (i used Mod Podge) and wrap it around a plain glass pillar candle. Voila: your very own secular and/or idolatrous Space Mom candle! Please remember that Carrie Fisher’s dad was Jewish every time you look at it, cause, you know.
do you want to know something?? I always wondered what the hell kind of hairstyle the Ancient Egyptians were trying to portray with depictions like these
and this
until I did my hair this morning and
oh
welp
you can take the noses off our statues but until you find a way to take Egypt out of Africa we’re still going to find ourselves
I’m reblogging this post without all the salty, racist commentary because I’m sick of looking at it. please spread this around again in its pure form for posterity.
What’s funny is that white people thought they were hats/crowns 😂
And here’s some pictures of the Afar people, who still live on the horn of Africa today.
Cool, huh?
Beautiful
People thought it was Hats and Crowns? How could they not see hair?
The same reason archaeologists, upon finding a woman’s skeleton in the grave of a famous Roman gladiator, immediately wondered where the gladiator’s skeleton was: Old Straight White Man™ brand denial.
Same way they denied the Really Gay Egyptian Tomb, too. It’s kind of a Thing.
This post is amazing, I’m so glad it exists. I have learned.
At this point I’m telling everyone they should watch “Leverage” based solely on the need to keep up with the President-Elect. Also, following John Rogers on Twitter has proven very educational over the past few months. I highly recommend it.
I love it when cats get really possessive of things that cats have no conceivable use for. Like, it’s a snow globe, you dumbass. You can’t even play with it - it’s too heavy for you to move. What exactly are you planning here?
Meet Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education. She funds an institute that wants to bring back child labor and get rid of public education.
Betsy DeVos is from my area (West Michigan) and let me tell you: she comes from not one, but two of the most corrupt, entitled, extreme conservative families in the area.
Something else, that I feel like people really should be aware of is that our state government (led, of course, by Rick Snyder of the ongoing Flint Water Crisis) just stated that literacy is not a right.
What happened is that some students in Detroit tried to sue the state because they have been denied access to literacy (through disinvestment and indifference to Detroit’s public schools). And the official response is that state legislation only requires that there be a system of free public schools. So yeah, there are schools. Schools without money or resources. But they’re there, and literacy is not a right (apparently).
Meanwhile, Betsy DeVos is a huge supporter of charter schools. Which means that she’s strongly anti-public school. She never went to public school, nor did any of her children.
Also: the DeVos family contributed over $9 million to the Tr*mp campaign.
How is this the real world
How are we living in a world where wretched worthless gutter trash like this vile piece of TRASH are allowed to hold ANY form of position in government
She literally thinks child slave labour is an amazing idea
That’s not a thing a normal person thinks, that’s the viewpoint of a villain in a movie where the hero is a dog
“THAT’S THE VIEWPOINT OF A VILLAIN IN A MOVIE WHERE THE HERO IS A DOG”
This is a phrase I’m going to come back to a lot in 2017.
This is your occasional reminder that my grandfather was a ‘picker’ in a coal mine and joined the Navy in order to get our family out of the mines. My great-grandfather was a coal miner and a farmer.
This isn’t a life anyone should want for their family, and it’s infuriating to hear this. It makes me want to scream in her face. My grandfather’s heart gave out far too early due to the things he had to do at too young an age. (That’s not my opinion, that’s the opinion of his doctors.)
Six people were arrested Tuesday night after staging an daylong sit-in at the office of Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s presumed pick for Attorney General and a man who was once deemed too racist to become a federal judge.
“This should be a clarifying lesson: most of the establishment press will reflexively credit Trump for things he has nothing to do with. We’ve seen that with the repeated claims of credit for saving or creating jobs which were usually announced months before. It’s classic Lucy’s football. There’s always news a day or two later about how it’s not true. But they run with it each time. Now we see the same with the House GOP caving and CNN, WaPo, Politico, AP and all the bigs saying they gave in when Trump tweeted his equivocal disapproval. That is pretty clearly not the case.”
Not only did the major news orgs give him credit for something he didn’t do, they missed the entire actual context of what he did say, which is that he didn’t like this thing happening first instead of later. He doesn’t care about the GOP eliminating or weakening ethical oversight; he just complained that they were doing it right now. In fact, Sean Spicer, who is one of his spokemaggots, made that explicitly clear.
At this point, I’m concluding that the major news organizations, but especially CNN, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, AP and Politico aren’t doing any meaningful fact-checking of Trump’s claims.
Also the Enterprise vs. Millennium Falcon debate has never ceased to confuse me, like, you’re basically wondering who’d win in a fight between a fully staffed US Navy research vessel armed with harpoons and torpedos and all sorts of other boat vessels OR your weedman and his sweet vintage van, his buddy riding shotgun with a crossbow
