Photo reblogged from Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC with 36 notes
All 370,000 road fatalities between 2001 and 2009 in the US.
My hope is that one day automobiles will be as safe as flying. This is one of the largest health issues in America that we seem to forget. Life expectancy is one of the most important health metrics we use. Life expectancy for a population is significantly reduced when young people are disproportionately killed. Car and motorcycle crashes disproportionately kill young people, just as HIV/AIDS disproportionately kills young people in South Africa:
In less than two decades, life expectancy in South Africa dropped almost 20 years because so many young people were dying!
Our current life expectancy in America is about 78 years. If we made the automobile as safe as the airplane (and saved those 370,000 young souls over the past 8 years), our life expectancy would grow by many years, which is much, much more significant than anything coming from doctors with their pills and scalpels.
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Post reblogged from STFU, Conservatives with 142 notes
Someone is going to get cancer because of Michelle Bachmann
I’m not saying that in some overtly mean way as if she were a cause of cancer. I mean that someone is going to listen to her lies about vaccines and they, or their children, will get cancer. It’s going to happen.
-Joe
Source: stfuconservatives
Link reblogged from Audacia Ray with 132 notes
Are You a Literature Abuser? →
- I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up.
- I have gone on reading binges of an entire book or more in a day.
- I read rapidly, often ‘gulping’ chapters.
- I have sometimes read early in the morning or before work.
- I have hidden books in different places to sneak a chapter without being seen.
- Sometimes I avoid friends or family obligations in order to read novels.
- Sometimes I re-write film or television dialog as the characters speak.
- I am unable to enjoy myself with others unless there is a book nearby.
- At a party, I will often slip off unnoticed to read.
- Reading has made me seek haunts and companions which I would otherwise avoid.
- I have neglected personal hygiene or household chores until I have finished a novel.
- I have spent money meant for necessities on books instead.
- I have attempted to check out more library books than permitted.
- Most of my friends are heavy fiction readers.
- I have sometimes passed out from a night of heavy reading.
- I have suffered ‘blackouts’ or memory loss from a bout of reading.
- I have wept, become angry or irrational because of something I read.
- I have sometimes wished I did not read so much.
- Sometimes I think my reading is out of control.Hi, I’m Dacia and I’m a bookaholic.
Starting to read my 56th book of the year this weekend. (China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station)
Source: creatrixtiara
Photo reblogged from STFU, Conservatives with 4,334 notes
Cartoonist draws a political strip criticizing the Syrian government.
Syrian government sends goons to snatch him out of his car, beat him and break his hands, set his beard on fire, put a bag over his head and dump his body in the street.
Cartoonist replies to said thugs with the above image.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/26/ali-ferzat-syria-cartoonist-hands-broken/
rad dude alert
Badass!
Holeeeeeeeeeeee shit.
This is amazing, for two reasons. One, with this single drawing this guy became the most badass political cartoonist to ever live, and two, that is the most poignant middle finger ever given. The most important bird ever flipped.
-Joe
Source: pennicandies
Quote reblogged from A Momentary Flow with 426 notes
Heisenberg and Schrodinger were in a car speeding down the highway when a cop pulls them over
He comes to the window and says, “do you have any idea how fast you were going?” Heisenberg replied, “no but I can tell you exactly where I was.”Hearing this strange reply the cop decides to conduct a search of the car. After opening the trunk of the car he immediately returns to the front window where he startlingly asks, “did you know there’s a dead cat in your trunk?!”Schrodinger then looks at him and says, “well thanks, now I do.
(via wildcat2030)
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Photo reblogged from Luthier Mark with 7,892 notes
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Replace vodka with bourbon and yeah…that’s pretty accurate.
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Link reblogged from Luthier Mark with 41 notes
House of Leaves Timeline →
For anyone who was looking for a comprehensive chronological time line of house of leaves.
Source: fuckyeahhouseofleaves
Post reblogged from STFU, Conservatives with 263 notes
“Although born identical twins with matching DNA, Tom and Ryan were two immensely different children. As toddlers, Tom entertained himself with toy trucks while Ryan fawned over his girl cousin’s Barbies and Little Mermaid dolls. Photo after photo of them at that age show Ryan with a t-shirt wrapped around his head, mimicking long, flowing hair. At age 4, he asked his mom, Cecelia, a heartbreaking question: When do I get to be a girl?… Ryan is now 12 and goes by the name Sylvia… Tom, who says he always felt like his twin was a girl, isn’t surprised by the twists their lives have taken so far. “I do wonder what it would be like to have a brother,” he says, smiling at Sylvia mischievously, “But I guess a sister cuts it.””♥__________♥
Source: genderqueer
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