Though I guess I give BBW (SNORT) some credit for offering a gay-slacker-child-friendly card.

Bloomberg Business has an exciting new promotion: Parents are invited to use a ripoff someecard to tell their recent college graduate to move the fuck out. Bonus: 12 free issues of Bloomberg Businessweek! Because reading about business will make you better at finding a job.

I wanted to see what kind of life-changing career advice they were offering, and here’s one of the most popular videos from their front page: Why can’t McDonald’s serve Egg McMuffins all day? When you move out and buy a house and car and pay back your student loans early on your McDonald’s salary, you’ll have Bloomberg Businessweek to thank!!!

So do get it, recent grads? It’s your fault the economy is in the tank. Because you’re a drain on the economy for taking out college loans and being unable to find a job that pays above minimum wage after your graduate. Because you caused the housing bubble and the bank meltdowns. Because your generation are the ones in Congress letting Wall Street CEOs slide and not increasing the minimum wage and rewarding mega-corporations with tax writeoffs. Oh, wait, that was your parents! Tee hee. Move out, slacker!

This actually reminded me of one of my favorite Onion articles: Study finds college education leaves most graduates unprepared to carry entire American economic recovery

(Bonus points for anyone else who snickered that they abbreviate themselves to BBW)

(ETA: if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see that they issued a micro-apology acknowledging that Millennials did not in fact ruin the economy)

After more than three-fifths of delegates to the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council voted Thursday to lift the organization’s ban on openly gay youth — a move that preserved the ban on LGBT adult leaders and volunteers — groups ranging from GLAAD to the LDS Church embraced the change. But several of the most […]

I just want to say that it’s pretty unique for an organization to find a way to piss EVERYONE off: liberals are mad that adult gays still aren’t allowed, and conservatives are mad that young gays ARE allowed. It’s a beautiful thing.

liberalsarecool:

The “me first, you nothing” GOP resume standard.

sacred-fox:

inothernews:

• That’s more than 4,300 gun deaths in just over five months  Or, as the NRA would say, “Who cares?”

Meanwhile, tens of thousands die around the world at the hands of warlords and dictators. But those countries have such strict gun control! America is the ONLY country where people still die by the gun!

Grow up.

Pop quiz: Name 5 countries that have stricter gun control than the United States and are under control of tyrants and warlords with deaths outnumbering gun deaths in the U.S. You may use your notes.

mtvisgarbage:

drueisms:

sandandglass:

Wayne Allyn Root - seriously, look his face in the last gif. 

There is something seriously wrong with human beings.

Link if you haven’t seen it.

sacred-fox asked: If the NRA says 'Who Cares' to over 4300 deaths, then what must the UN and Human Rights Watch be saying as thousands starve to death or die of sickness in Africa? "We'd care, but we're too busy bashing Israel"?

Folks, this pro-gun person shows up in my Ask every once in a while trying to prove that the NRA really isn’t that bad. In this case: there are starving kids in Africa, so gun deaths in America are NBD.

Friend, I’m glad you asked. Obviously you care very deeply about the plight of Africans, and are in no way holding them up as a prop to defend your views on reasonable gun control. Which is why I’m so very thrilled to let you know that the UN has a whole page just for news regarding their work in Africa. Similarly, the HRW has a page about their work there.

And, obviously - I’m sure you already know this and I’m just repeating things you’re intimately familiar with, humor me - Africa is not a monolith of sick and starving people. It’s a continent with many countries that run the gamut from impoverished nations to first-class urban destinations. For instance, the healthcare system in Morocco outranks the one here in the US of A. So I encourage you to check out the UN’s special pages on Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the HRW page I linked above, you can check out each individual country in Africa in which they’re working.

So, in short, you can find out exactly what they’re saying about each and every country in Africa. Having trouble finding an official statement from the NRA re: 4300+ gun deaths since Newtown, however.

grrrl-riot:

I saw this post among the slew of comments on this Planned Parenthood post regarding the decision on the after 20-week abortions ban in Arizona. 

It was nice to see a conservative man standing up to the anti-choice bullies on the page. 

The horrors we inflict on pregnant people by forcing them to keep nonviable pregnancies are just… I mean, I can’t even imagine. This is what late-term abortion bans do. I wouldn’t wish that woman’s experience on anyone, and good on her and her father-in-law for being willing to publicly stand up for choice now.

inothernews:

• That’s more than 4,300 gun deaths in just over five months  Or, as the NRA would say, “Who cares?”

lillykane-dreams-on asked: Re AVA BS: I black out with rage every time I remember this is a thing - particularly after seeing "The Invisible War." Aside from the fact that they should have started digitizing DECADES AGO, like you said, interns are a thing. Library and info science students (my field) would be all over that shit. We're all about privacy! Tech services (my concentration) spend lots of time scanning and collocating data! I say librarians and vets take over the AVA by forming a terrifyingly awesome battalion.

Yes — someone pointed out that they would need someone to design a file structure; an information architect to figure out the best way to classify and organize all the documents. Although just scanning them all into one big repository would be a solid start.

LIBRARIANS AND VETERANS, ASSEMBLE!

nightbears:

motherjones:

The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia thinks gays are “ikky.” And, like, a zillion other terrible things.

Yuk!

bisexual-community:

bisexuallibrarian:

This basically shows that bisexual people report seeing only very slightly less biphobia in supposedly “LGBT” media than in “mainstream” media. 

Think this is interesting and useful information? It comes (free of charge! to Bisexual NGO’s/Charities and Academics) from the good people who do the annual International LGBT (marketing) Survey. So bisexual people, Remember to Add You Voice to the 2013 survey.