May the Fourth be with you. Always.
(But just in case, take an umbrella.)
“For the last 500 years, the locals of Nongriat in Meghalaya, India have grown several hundred bridges across the region’s numerous water channels, using just the roots of local ribber trees. Some of the bridges extend over 100 feet in length and are strong enough to support more than 50 people at a time.”
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We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.
Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”
The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.
I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.
So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.
… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.
Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.
–Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “Wasting Our Minds.”
Go read the whole damned thing.
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This is fucking amazing.
Oh.My.God.
I’ll reblog this every time it appears in my dash
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the new (and probably final) trailer for Brave
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New Flog episode featuring my friend Tom Lenk! We play violin/piano together, theres a monkey and space travel….standard internet video ;)
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MY DRUNK KITCHEN: QUESADILLAS PART ONE!!!!!!!!! I love you and I love doing this show.
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***Nathan Fillion Autographed SDCC Castle Poster Giveaway!! ***
Ok this week (March 22nd), marks my one year anniversary of me joining this online Castle fandom! It was a year ago I had the opportunity to meet a majority of the Castle cast, meet some amazing local Castle friends and was convinced to join twitter and tumblr to meet even more amazing Castle fans and share my appreciation for the show.
Since I have had some amazing experiences and awesome opportunities this last year with the Castle Cast, I wanted to share something special to fans that might not have the same privilege to mark this special anniversary So I decided to give away one of my signed autographs for one lucky fan!
For this giveaway it will include the official 2011 San Diego Comic Con Rare Castle poster that they gave out (which is the graphic above). I was lucky enough to get one of these posters signed by Nathan Fillion in person at the March 3rd Thrilling Adventure Hour performance. The exact picture of the poster and autograph is included in the post.
So for those of you fans who always dreamt of having something signed by Nathan, this is your chance.
Rules
- All you need to do is reblog this post, to enter to win. I will use a random generator to select the lucky number and that person who re-blogged it wins the giveaway.
- I am not requiring you to follow me on tumblr, but if you are a Castle fan like I am I think you would like my blog as I post mostly Castle stuff
- Please limit your reblogs to 4 ( you can reblog up twice a week over the course of the next two weeks), anymore than that might get a bit out of control and it will give everybody a fair chance.
- This contest is open to everybody, anywhere in the world.
- I will leave this giveaway open until 4/9/2012 to give people ample time to enter and it will be fun post Easter surprise for the winner.
Good Luck and I am so blessed and happy to have met so many other fans over the last year!
Special Credit to Always100coffees for making me this headline poster to advertise my giveaway
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