“Next time someone touches your [pregnant] belly without permission, touch theirs. See how that goes.”

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commenter on Jessica Valenti’s blog

I really want to do this if I’m ever pregnant.

(via thetrifler)

This.

“Speak no ill of the dead? Well, let me simply say that the racist, populist, larcenous bigot of a Senator — a man who robbed the American tax-payer to pave his state with baubles and bribes — is not going to be much mourned in these parts.”

—Andrew Sullivan

Suffice it to say, the man leaves a hell of a complicated a legacy. (via savingpaper)

I do believe that people make mistakes, and that people can change their minds, learn and grow. Maybe the late Bird really had grown past his racism, and maybe he really did regret his ties to the Klan and his loud opposition to Civil Rights. That said, I don’t believe that a politician who was once an open bigot had any place in the U.S. Senate, and I find it appalling that the people of West Virginia elected him again and again. So pardon me if I don’t much feel like celebrating his legacy, which is so tainted with hate.