top 6 jackie/hyde scenes | asked by silversickle & tedstinson

What Is This Blog All About? 

gematriya:

poppysaide:

looneylinguistics:

In the past few days, I have been noticing a lot of boneheaded linguistic errors. So, I wanted to create a blog that lets people showcase similar mistakes as well.

Thus, here we are. If you find a linguistic error - grammatical, spelling, etc. - post it and let the world laugh with you (and at the people who made the error). Enjoy!

actually the worst blog

#”linguistic error” being an oxymoron #because most modern linguistics aren’t huge proponents of prescriptivism #HERE LET’S LAUGH AT PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON’T ADHERE TO THESE ARBITRARY RULES AS RIGIDLY AS WE DO #IT’LL BE SUPER FUN #imagine steamclouds pouring out of my ears #linguistics #”looney” also pings my ”wow you’re seriously going there with the mocking of people’s intelligence/brainz” ableism radar #fun for the whole family

agniology:

raveyrai:

I still love this

way better than the whitewashed version

js

thedailywhat:

Follow-Up of the Day: Weinstein Co. Edits Bully to Earn PG-13 Rating: After a drawn-out battle with the MPAA, a toned-down re-submission of The Weinstein Company documentary Bully has earned a PG-13 rating.

A crucial scene in the film that centers on main subject Alex Libby — in which there are three uses of the word f**k as he is harassed on a bus — will stay put.

“The scene that mattered remains untouched and intact, which is a true sign that we have won this battle,” said director Lee Hirsch.

[hollywoodreporter]

panasonicyouth:

dariadixon:

BAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAA I CAN’T

OH MY GOD THIS IS PRECIOUS

mswyrr:

mizjenkins:

Eve Arnold
School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face
Virginia, 1960

Wow. Puts all my knee-jerk reactions to ignorant assholes on the Internet in perspective.

One really important, but often less mentioned, thing about non-violent civil rights work that people did was the months of work-shops and popular education that went on. People got together, discussed their feelings on what they were doing, made collective decisions about how their efforts would be organized and toward what goals, and then did schools like this where people practiced walking out non-violent resistance. According to Rev. James Lawson (interviewed here for the Freedom Riders documentary), who was brought to teach because of his experience in India studying the work of Gandhi, prior to the the efforts to desegregate the downtown area of Nashville—particularly lunch counters—people did popular education/workshops for six months.

People talk admiringly about military campaigns, but instances like that had all the precision, commitment, and excellence of a military effort only toward the end of representing everyone rather than upholding strict hierarchy *and* using non-violent tools of warfare.

I don’t hold that non-violence should be considered the only option for oppressed people. But I do believe that it’s extraordinary work that deserves wider recognition. I feel like, as with Rosa Parks, there’s this tendency for the narratives of the classical period of civil rights to portray what people chose to do as spontaneous. I feel like that denial of the prolonged, patient, careful, organized groundwork really sucks.

emlocke:

Opportunity LOL’s Spotlight Interview: Comedian and Actress Retta Sirleaf
January 13, 2012 

What are the three coolest things to have happened since you joined the cast of Parks and Recreation?

1) I was in Entertainment Weekly’s best scene stealers of 2011. I read EW like my life depends upon it, always have, and I found out on Twitter from my homie Aisha Tyler that we were in the same issue. She for her new gig on The Talk and me for brangin’ it on Parks—which by the way I completely credit Alan M. Yang and the writers because the Pawnee Rangers episode aka the ‘Treat Yo Self’ episode was so damned funny.

2) I was on Oprah. Well I wasn’t on Oprah. Rob Lowe was on Oprah but he showed a clip from a web promo we shot on the set of Parks & Rec so I was on a clip on Oprah. Close enough.

3) The most amazing thing was being nominated for an Emmy [and] getting to go to that shit. There were so many great things about our Emmy nomination.

—The sense of pride we ALL felt (crew, writers, producers, actors) in being nominated for doing work we love. One thing I enjoy about this group of people is our email chains. We tend to clown one another as much as share in lovefests and one of my favorites was the Emmy email chain that started with Amy’s “Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! We were nominated for an Emmy!” There were probably 30 emails with “Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! We were nominated for an Emmy!” in the subject line.

—A designer offered to make me a dress. The last person to make me a dress was my mother back in 1982 and that’s because she refused to spend $50 for an Easter dress when she could just as easily whip something up with one of her old dresses and some “half off” lace. Rani Zakhem made me a strapless sunshine dream that made my tits look like they were being held up by an Olympic weightlifting champion in the clean and jerk stance. I LOVED IT! Natch.

—But the BEST part of the Emmy whirlwind was going to the parties. There were so many parties and as a girl who likes to get her cocktail on, September was a boozy utopia. So many fabulous parties, not enough Spanx!

(via Opportunity LOL’s Spotlight Interview: Comedian and Actress Retta Sirleaf)

"‎”Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, everybody."

— Ernest Hemingway  (via quitelikearthurdent)

alyson-noele:

rapisoffensive:

This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.

By Marion Brady

A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he’d make his scores public.

By any reasonable measure, my friend is a success. His now-grown kids are well-educated. He has a big house in a good part of town. Paid-for condo in the Caribbean. Influential friends. Lots of frequent flyer miles. Enough time of his own to give serious attention to his school board responsibilities. The margins of his electoral wins and his good relationships with administrators and teachers testify to his openness to dialogue and willingness to listen.

He called me the morning he took the test to say he was sure he hadn’t done well, but had to wait for the results. A couple of days ago, realizing that local school board members don’t seem to be playing much of a role in the current “reform” brouhaha, I asked him what he now thought about the tests he’d taken.

“I won’t beat around the bush,” he wrote in an email. “The math section had 60 questions. I knew the answers to none of them, but managed to guess ten out of the 60 correctly. On the reading test, I got 62% . In our system, that’s a “D”, and would get me a mandatory assignment to a double block of reading instruction.

He continued, “It seems to me something is seriously wrong. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate.

“I help oversee an organization with 22,000 employees and a $3 billion operations and capital budget, and am able to make sense of complex data related to those responsibilities.

“I have a wide circle of friends in various professions. Since taking the test, I’ve detailed its contents as best I can to many of them, particularly the math section, which does more than its share of shoving students in our system out of school and on to the street. Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession.

“It might be argued that I’ve been out of school too long, that if I’d actually been in the 10th grade prior to taking the test, the material would have been fresh. But doesn’t that miss the point? A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. I can’t see how that could possibly be true of the test I took.”

Here’s the clincher in what he wrote:

“If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had.

“It makes no sense to me that a test with the potential for shaping a student’s entire future has so little apparent relevance to adult, real-world functioning. Who decided the kind of questions and their level of difficulty? Using what criteria? To whom did they have to defend their decisions? As subject-matter specialists, how qualified were they to make general judgments about the needs of this state’s children in a future they can’t possibly predict? Who set the pass-fail “cut score”? How?”

“I can’t escape the conclusion that decisions about the [state test] in particular and standardized tests in general are being made by individuals who lack perspective and aren’t really accountable.”

There you have it. A concise summary of what’s wrong with present corporately driven education change: Decisions are being made by individuals who lack perspective and aren’t really accountable.

Those decisions are shaped not by knowledge or understanding of educating, but by ideology, politics, hubris, greed, ignorance, the conventional wisdom, and various combinations thereof. And then they’re sold to the public by the rich and powerful.

All that without so much as a pilot program to see if their simplistic, worn-out ideas work, and without a single procedure in place that imposes on them what they demand of teachers: accountability.

But maybe there’s hope. As I write, a New York Times story by Michael Winerip makes my day. The stupidity of the current test-based thrust of reform has triggered the first revolt of school principals.

Winerip writes: “As of last night, 658 principals around the state (New York) had signed a letter — 488 of them from Long Island, where the insurrection began — protesting the use of students’ test scores to evaluate teachers’ and principals’ performance.”

One of those school principals, Winerip says, is Bernard Kaplan. Kaplan runs one of the highest-achieving schools in the state, but is required to attend 10 training sessions.

“It’s education by humiliation,” Kaplan said. “I’ve never seen teachers and principals so degraded.”

Carol Burris, named the 2010 Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State, has to attend those 10 training sessions.

Katie Zahedi, another principal, said the session she attended was “two days of total nonsense. I have a Ph.D., I’m in a school every day, and some consultant is supposed to be teaching me to do evaluations.”

A fourth principal, Mario Fernandez, called the evaluation process a product of “ludicrous, shallow thinking. They’re expecting a tornado to go through a junkyard and have a brand new Mercedes pop up.”

My school board member-friend concluded his email with this: “I can’t escape the conclusion that those of us who are expected to follow through on decisions that have been made for us are doing something ethically questionable.”

He’s wrong. What they’re being made to do isn’t ethically questionable. It’s ethically unacceptable. Ethically reprehensible. Ethically indefensible.

How many of the approximately 100,000 school principals in the U.S. would join the revolt if their ethical principles trumped their fears of retribution? Why haven’t they been asked?

Worth it to read the whole thing!

girlargueswithtree:

humorlessfeminists:

tis the season

BEST

joshishollywood:

If there is anyone deserving of an Oscar season biopic in the next 50 years, it’s Robert Pattinson, and I mean that without a trace of irony or facetiousness. The poor guy just absolutely fascinates me.

Starring Steve Buscemi as the physical manifestation of Pattinson’s self-loathing.

This is a good idea, someone better get on it. I’ll give you executive production credits.