*Beautiful*

[asholiee.livejournal.com]

George hugging a WWII veteran.

If any of you have free time, you should watch what they're showing on the history channel, it makes you admire the people serving our country even more.

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[mosellegreen.livejournal.com]

Gacked from sophysduckling.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html

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The NYT Lauding Motherhood?! (crossposted to antifeminazi)

[maidenjedi]

May 8, 2005
This Is Your Brain on Motherhood
By KATHERINE ELLISON - San Francisco

ANYONE shopping for a Mother's Day card today might reasonably linger in the Sympathy section. We can't seem to stop mourning the state of modern motherhood. "Madness" is our new metaphor. "Desperate Housewives" are our new cultural icons. And a mother's brain, as commonly envisioned, is impaired by a supposed full-scale assault on sanity and smarts.

So strong is this last stereotype that when a satirical Web site posted a "study" saying that parents lose an average of 20 I.Q. points on the birth of their first child, MSNBC broadcast it as if it were true. The danger of this perception is clearest for working mothers, who besides bearing children spend more time with them, or doing things for them, than fathers, according to a recent Department of Labor survey.

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