Link me up, Scotty - Scandalous Edition

Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tree Lobsters provides translation services for the language of politics, and nails it.
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The mantra of "Do what you love, love what you do" is like the superficial holy grail of work life. Unfortunately it betrays a level of privilege that is simply astounding, as well as being completely disrespectful of those who do work they don't love, because it allows them to support the human beings they do love.
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"I'm so surprised to learn that 72.5% of incidents reported to the group Working to Halt Hate Online were made by women who were degraded and harassed by men," said no woman with an Internet connection ever. What is UP with this, men? Is the fact that a woman says something online with which you disagree really sufficient provocation to threaten to tell her "Im [sic] looking you up, and when I find you, im [sic] going to rape you and remove your head?" Seriously? Who raised you?
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Video of the Week: The trailer for the upcoming movie Particle Fever, a documentary about (you guessed it) particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I'm totally putting this in my Netflix queue.


1 comments:

John the Scientist said...

Oh, yeah I've always hated that do what you love bullshit. I mean, if you truly hate what you do, get another job for your mental health, but for most people work is a mixed bag that allows them to support the ones they love and to do the things they truly love on the side. Most of the stuff I love to do pays for squat, though there are parts of what I do that I love. I am however, rapidly coming to the point where the icky parts are outweighing the good stuff, and am job hunting accordingly.

As for who raised the twits, it seems that Jeff Dalmer and John Wayne Gacy had a LOT of love children. Just sayin'.