- The Guardian: Any advice for a 21-year-old who hates their job and has the possibility of traveling the world? And has a boyfriend that they like. (This is for a friend.)
- Rob Delaney: Go do it. Fuck him. Is he a guy in his 20s? Then he's the least significant type of person on the planet. A male in their 20s? Run in the opposite direction. Nothing he says matters; his fears, his hopes his dreams are garbage. Men in their 20s are the worst thing happening on our planet. Go, go to Uzbekistan, go to South Korea, just go anywhere he isn't because men in their 20s are bad for young women.
- The Guardian: So what do women in their 20s do?
- Rob Delaney: Masturbate. Date other women for a while. Use men sexually for a while but don't ever invite their opinion or be bound to them in any way.
- 17th June
2013 - 17
- 17th June
2013 - 17
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- 16th June
2013 - 16
Education International - SHAHNAZ NAZLI SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Commemorate the courage of Pakistani Teachers
Shahnaz Nazli, a 41 year-old teacher was shot on Tuesday 26 March as she walked, with her son, to school near the town of Jamrud in Peshawar, Pakistan. Gunmen opened fire, when Ms Nazli was just 200 metres from the school, and fled after hitting their target.
The Head Teacher took her to the local hospital, but Shahnaz died of her gunshot wounds three hours later. Since the murder of Shahnaz, two of the three classrooms in an all girls school in Zalaumn Kalan in the Bannu province were blown up and destroyed by 4.5 kilogrammes of explosives detonated from a plastic canister, hidden by terrorists, inside the school.
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EI has formed a coalition with its Pakistani affiliates, with the Pakistani Workers’ Federation, with the International Trade Union Confederation and with the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, to put pressure on the Pakistani authorities to guarantee the safety of teachers and their pupils on the way to and from school, and while they are in school.
EI, and the other members of the coalition, will not rest until the Pakistan government and authorities recognise that it is their responsibility to secure the safety of teachers and of students.
There cannot be any kind of development or progress in Pakistan, or, indeed, elsewhere, if people, who dedicate their professional lives to nurturing the minds of children, are not able to undertake their work in safety, and children are prevented from attending school.
Shahnaz Nazli’s death, the subsequent deaths of teachers and injuries to students in schools in Pakistan over the past few days, and the earlier attempt on the life of Malala Yousafzai, underline the fact that we have reached a critical point in the struggle between those who would deny children their human right to be educated, and those who would promote that right, even at the cost of their lives.
The establishment of this Scholarship Fund is an attempt to recognise, in a tangible way, the sacrifice which teachers and students are making in Pakistan in the cause of education for all and, especially, of education for girls.
- 14th June
2013 - 14
Members of Congress are living off food stamps for a week to protest Republican cuts. It’s a challenge for them, but GOP cuts would hurt millions of everyday Americans.
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- 12th June
2013 - 12
David Mitchell on the apparent “sincerity” of David Cameron’s position on gay marriage
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- 10th June
2013 - 10
- 8th June
2013 - 08
I’m not quite sure when my Saturday nights became the night to stay home, bake, cross stitch and watch tv. But I’m kinda enjoying it?
- 7th June
2013 - 07
It is June.
I am tired of being brave.Anne Sexton from “The Truth the Dead Know,” 1962. (via napoleon—in—rags)(Source: napoleon--in--rags, via roughguess)
- 6th June
2013 - 06
(via Vanity Fair)
“It hasn’t taken long for the Iraq war to feel like a relic of history. Although U.S. troops withdrew from the conflict a mere 17 months ago, the story of the war already seems set in a bygone era—circumstances that have quickly been buried under an avalanche of newer crises. Photojournalist Michael Kamber, who covered the war for The New York Times from 2003 to 2012, noticed America’s desire to tune out the war while the battles were still raging. Visiting home while on leave during the war’s early years, Kamber grew frustrated that Americans were ill informed about the conflict, leading, he felt, to a public that didn’t care enough about the bloodshed he was documenting. His frustration grew as the conflict wore on, as the U.S. military took an active role in encouraging public indifference by censoring what could be photographed.
Now Kamber has responded with Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, a riveting account of the conflict as told by three dozen of the war’s most prominent photographers. Kamber’s interviews with his colleagues cover the war as they saw it—their passion for the story, their fears and daily complications, and the trauma they live with still today. Some of their images are among the most iconic of the war, some are previously unpublished, and many are gruesome, shocking, and utterly dispiriting.
The book is out on May 15, 2013, via University of Texas Press.”
Photographs :
1. Six weeks before the start of the war, a man sits drinking tea at the Al Zahawi cafe on Rashid Street, Baghdad, February 12, 2003. (Bruno Stevens)
2. An Iraqi woman walks through a plume of smoke rising from a massive fire at a liquid gas factory as she searches for her husband. The fire was allegedly started by looters picking through the factory. Basra, May 26, 2003. (Lynsey Addario)
3. An Iraqi child jumps over remains of victims found in a mass grave south of Baghdad. The victims were killed by Saddam Hussein’s government during a Shiite uprising here following the 1991 Gulf War. Al Musayyib, May 27, 2003. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
4. Samar Hassan,5, screams moments after her parents were killed by U.S soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division. The troops fired on the Hassan-family car when it unwittingly approached during a dusk patrol in the tense northern town. Tal Afar, January 18, 2005. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
5. Soldiers of the First Armored Division swim at Uday Hussein’s abandoned palace. Baghdad, July 11, 2003. (Ed Kashi/VII)
6. 1,215 U.S.-military personnel pray during a massive re-enlistment ceremony in Al Faw Palace, one of Saddam Hussein’s former luxurious homes. Baghdad, July 4, 2008. (Ashley Gilbertson/VII)
7. A U.S. soldier watches an Iraqi man who collapsed while being arrested during a raid. Ramadi, January 24, 2006. (Guy Calaf)
8. A man is arrested by U.S. soldiers on suspicion of corruption and complicity in working with anti-coalition insurgents. Baiji, February 8, 2008. (Eros Hoagland/Redux)
9. A U.S. soldier marks the back of a man’s neck with numbers denoting his neighborhood and home, a system designed to help troops determine if people were moving around the village of Qubah despite a lockdown following a U.S. attack on insurgents. Qubah, March 24, 2007. (Yuri Kozyrev/Noor)
10. Rena was nine months pregnant and walking with her youngest sister in Sadr City one day in 2008, when a U.S. air strike tore off her leg, killing her unborn infant and her sister. Sadr City, February 2009. (Farah Nosh)
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- 6th June
2013 - 06
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