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SNL Perfectly Parodies The White Reaction to Beyoncé’s “Formation”

SNL couldn't resist poking fun at those who seem to have missed the fact that Beyoncé is, well, black.

“I think this song isn’t for us.” “But usually everything is!”

no lie here

Look at the difference: In 1977 I bought a small house in Portland Oregon for $24,000. At the time I was earning $5 per hour working at a large auto parts store. I owned a 4 year old Chevy Nova that cost $1,500. Now, 36 years later that same job pays $8 an hour, that same house costs $185,000 and a 4 year old Chevy costs $10,000. Wages haven’t kept up with expenses at all. And, I should point out that that $5 an hour job in 1977 was union and included heath benefits.

an anonymous online commenter on the current economy. (via han-nara)

The reason we’re in a deficit today is two unpaid wars, Medicare Part D program, unpaid for, large tax breaks, $1 trillion of which went to the wealthy

Bernie “the badass” Sanders - Sen. Sanders provides history lesson on deficits during budget meeting - Burlington Free Press (via bspolitics)

#cute

GOP congressman blasts proposal for Muslim cemetery...

"I am deeply concerned over the impact it might have on our community," says Rep. Scott DesJarlais.

An appeal to my fellow Tennesseeans:  Please, please, PLEASE stop electing people like this to represent us!   

All the tyranny-fearing, “we need to take aim” gun fetish, dystopian nanny state Randians have zero problem with government paid police killing unarmed black Americans.

The “I felt afraid” excuse immediately passes the smell test and “trust” is granted reflexively to fellow white agents of oppression.

It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers , and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new. When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again. The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby.

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse Five

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Should you remember Kathryn Joosten?

What’s important isn’t The West Wing or Desperate Housewives.

Joosten didn’t start acting until she was 42.

Didn’t go to Hollywood until she was in her 50s.

Took the first role you remember her for at 59.

By the time she passed away at 72, she had two Emmys and was loved by millions.

So the next time you think you’re too old to do something big, that’s when you should remember Kathryn Joosten.