If the Gilbert, Arizona, school board does decide to go ahead with a stealth plan to start ripping the pages out of science textbooks… I think we’ve got it covered. High school kids of Arizona, if they do steal the stuff out of your books, ArizonaHonorsBiology.com is where you can get it again. Arizona may be conservative, but Arizona, you are still part of the United States, and you can’t pretend some parts of biology don’t exist because they make you feel oogy. You can try, but you cannot get away with it.
Rachel Maddow expertly trolls Tea Partiers who want to censor Arizona sex ed (via micdotcom) jacobyverger
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TUIL
[noun]
a bunch of flowers; bouquet.
Etymology: Dutch.
[James R. Eads]
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Lychee Shield Bug (Chrysocoris stolli, Scutelleridae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu’er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese true bugs and hoppers on my Flickr site HERE…..
LOGINQUITAS
[noun]
distance, remoteness, isolation; separated from others.
Etymology: Latin.
[Siegfried Zademack - Die Wand]
On the front door of a library.
CORDOLIUM
[noun]
heartfelt grief; sorrow of the heart.
Etymology: from Latin cor, “heart” + dolor, “pain, sorrow”, dolere, “to ache”.
[Jean Osborne - Grief]
To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.
Max Rive - Mountain Photography