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wearethe15percent: Derek & Christina - Saint Paul,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:50:12 -0400

wearethe15percent:

Derek & Christina - Saint Paul, MN

Minnesota!

wearethe15percent: Cheerios Parody Wait for it…

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:47:40 -0400

wearethe15percent:

Cheerios Parody

Wait for it…

wearethe15percent: Robert & Melissa Williams - Detroit,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:43:41 -0400

wearethe15percent:

Robert & Melissa Williams - Detroit, MI

Michigan! (Actually, this feels perfectly normal for Detroit.)

wearethe15percent: Jason, Jessica & Ella - Farmington,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:43:04 -0400

wearethe15percent:

Jason, Jessica & Ella - Farmington, NY

This little girl! And mom and dad’s matching glasses.

wearethe15percent: Cadden, Chad, Iola & Lyam - Eagan,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:41:26 -0400

wearethe15percent:

Cadden, Chad, Iola & Lyam - Eagan, Minnesota

Minnesota!

America's Worst Charities, a Tampa Bay Times, CIR and CNN Investigation

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:59:21 -0400

America's Worst Charities, a Tampa Bay Times, CIR and CNN Investigation:

The list is interesting and good information. I’m more excited to still see a long-term investigative effort coming out of an institution of journalism.

wearethe15percent: Last week, Cheerios posted this new...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:36:25 -0400

wearethe15percent:

Last week, Cheerios posted this new commercial on youtube. It sparked a firestorm of backlash, and (naturally) the comments on the video have been deactivated.

When my wife and I watched the video, it felt great to (finally) see a representation of our own family. Especially considering what happened at a Wal-Mart in Virginia a few weeks ago.

We created this site to publicly reflect the changing face of the American family. According to the 2008 census, 15% of new marriages are interracial. And yet, it still feels rare to see something like the Cheerios ad represented in mainstream culture.

If you’re in an interracial marriage, or family, please feel free to email us your photo for the site. Please include first names, from left to right, and the city in which you live.

Thanks for participating. We are the 15 percent!

- Michael David Murphy

Crying all of the tears.

"…conservatives often perceive liberal attachment to diversity as a kind of “everyone’s a winner”..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:11:30 -0400

“…conservatives often perceive liberal attachment to diversity as a kind of “everyone’s a winner” cuddle party, where we sit around exchanging rice-cakes and hating on the military. But the great strength of diversity is it forces you into a room with people who have experiences very different from your own. It’s all fine and good to laugh at Sherrod Brown dancing to Jay-Z. But dude is outside his lane and he’s learning something. M.C. Rove should be so lucky. If you are not around people who will look at you like you are crazy when you make stupid claims about other people’s experiences, then you tend to keep saying stupid things about other people’s experiences. It is not enough to pay a political price, or even to be shamed into silence. You have to come to believe — in your heart — that sincerity itself is not the same as accurate information. It is not enough for you to not be “the party of stupid” or to “stop saying stupid things” you must show some active commitment toward being less stupid.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates (via azspot)

Laid off from the Sun-Times

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:26:28 -0400

Laid off from the Sun-Times:

A tumblr.

humanrightscampaign: What Two Months of Action Can Do You can...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:33:40 -0400

humanrightscampaign:

What Two Months of Action Can Do

You can learn more about some of the ways the Supreme Court could rule at hrc.org/supremecourt.

HRC was certainly helpful to Minnesotans United in a lot of ways. But they’re taking an awful lot of credit here for work done in the states on the MInnesotans United campaign(s) and others like it. Also, field organizing is definitely not what I think of when I think of HRC.

thugkitchen: Don’t give me that “I don’t eat breakfast”...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:33:00 -0400

thugkitchen:

Don’t give me that “I don’t eat breakfast” bullshit. It’s too early to be an asshole. The fiber in the oatmeal helps control your blood sugar and keeps you feeling full until lunch. The quinoa gives your morning a little extra protein because why the fuck not? Start your day right by owning the shit out of it. CARPE FUCKING DIEM.

QUINOA OATMEAL

1 cup steel cut oats (they aren’t all mushy like regular oatmeal)

½ cup quinoa (I used scarlet quinoa but you grab whatever you can find)

1 teaspoon olive or coconut oil

4 cups water

½ cup almond milk (or whatthefuckever milk you prefer)

Heat up the water in a kettle on the stovetop or in the microwave until it is near boiling. Put the quinoa in a strainer and rinse that shit so it isn’t bitter after you cook it. Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium heat and add the steel cut oats. Stir them around and cook until they smell kinda toasty, like 1-2 minutes. Add the quinoa and the water and bring it all to a boil (this won’t take long because the water should already be hot as fuck). Turn down the heat on the pot and let it simmer. Go check your tumblr or Facebook shit while it cooks for about 20 minutes. It should taste done now, not hard but still a little chewy. Add the milk and turn off the heat. Serve with fresh fruit, nuts, maple syrup, brown sugar, whateverthefuck will get you through your day.

Serves 4 (love to hit snooze? double the recipe and heat up the leftovers all week)

funkybrownchick: On Path to Priesthood, and Then He Fell for...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:27:24 -0400

funkybrownchick:

On Path to Priesthood, and Then He Fell for Her

Article: Married 30 Years, Accepting Their Differences - NYTimes.com

publius-esquire: Founding Father Pin-Ups, 2nd Ed.: Tread on...

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:44:26 -0400

How about a little XYZ Affair?

President Booty reporting for duty

Virginia is for lovers mmm

Raid my treasury

Ratify /this/

umff

publius-esquire:

Founding Father Pin-Ups, 2nd Ed.: Tread on Me

*blink*blink*

"It’s impossible to consider her career without regret. She has immense political gifts: poise,..."

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:37:31 -0400

“It’s impossible to consider her career without regret. She has immense political gifts: poise, confidence, charisma, speaking skills. Had she employed them more often in service of her district and state, and in support of a more responsible conservative vision, she might now be announcing new political horizons instead of her departure.”

- What Michele Bachmann’s exit means for Minnesota | StarTribune.com

"I am 100-percent happy. When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way..."

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:35:33 -0400

“I am 100-percent happy. When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.”

- Brittney Griner on Owning The Middle (via misterjt)

"So here’s where we stand. If institutions are serious about advancing women, they’ll..."

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:04:20 -0400

“

So here’s where we stand. If institutions are serious about advancing women, they’ll have to address the hours problem — that’s the only way to get a critical mass of women poised for leadership. But we’ll never address the hours problem until we open up a conversation about what drives it.

It’s not productivity. It’s not innovation. It’s identity. If you’ve lived a life where holidays are a nuisance, where you’ve missed your favorite uncle’s funeral and your children’s childhoods, in a culture that conflates manly heroism with long hours, it’s going to take more than a few regressions to convince you it wasn’t really necessary, after all, for your work to devour you.

”

- Why Men Work So Many Hours - Joan C. Williams - Harvard Business Review

"Not only is work devotion a “class act” - a way of enacting class..."

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:04:16 -0400

“Not only is work devotion a “class act” - a way of enacting class status—it’s also a certain way of being a “real” man. Working long hours is seen as a “heroic activity,” noted Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and her co-authors in their 1999 study of lawyers. Marianne Cooper’s study of engineers in Silicon Valley closely observes how working long hours turns pencil pushing or computer keyboarding into a manly test of physical endurance. “There’s a kind of machismo culture that you don’t sleep,” one father told her. “Successful enactment of this masculinity,” Cooper concludes, “involves displaying one’s exhaustion, physically and verbally, in order to convey the depth of one’s commitment, stamina, and virility.””

- Why Men Work So Many Hours - Joan C. Williams - Harvard Business Review

"When people say they believe in “equality of opportunity,” they really mean they believe in..."

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:03:59 -0400

“When people say they believe in “equality of opportunity,” they really mean they believe in “sufficiency of opportunity.” They don’t believe all children should start from the same place. But they believe all children should start from a good enough place. They believe they should have decent nutrition and functioning schools and a safe community and loving parents. They believe they should have a chance.”

- No one really believes in ‘equality of opportunity’ Ezra Klein also addresses equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome. Given that, I’d say I prefer “sufficiency of outcome.” We should all start from a good enough place, and we should all have good enough results.

mauricecherry: WhereAreWeGoing? - Remy Shand / 2013 (by Remy...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:05 -0400

mauricecherry:

WhereAreWeGoing? - Remy Shand / 2013 (by Remy Shand)

New Remy Shand??!?

New Remy Shand!!!!

americasgreatoutdoors: Summer nights in Joshua Tree look a lot...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:39 -0400

americasgreatoutdoors:

Summer nights in Joshua Tree look a lot like this. In other words, beautiful.

Photo: Sarah Chah

My first (and only, so far) visit to Joshua Tree was absolutely amazing.