Border State of Mind

Confessions, adventures, and missteps of a Maryland ex-pat trying to make my way home.

[darcylindbergh]

congratulations to Minerva McGonagall on her pending retirement today, who is going to look down at her list of first years and see “James Sirius Potter” and just call it a fucking day

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"The best defense against bullshit is vigilance; so if you smell something, say something".

[paulbanksmallcop]

im sorry i had to

[edwardspoonhands]

I mean…the amazing thing to me is that TV writers everywhere are still telling actors to say “I could care less” in TV shows. I see it all the dang time! Also STOP HOLDING DOWN THE FORT! THE FORT IS NOT A BALLOON! YOU HOLD THE FORT! WHY WOULD YOU HOLD IT DOWN! IT’S A DAMN FORT!

YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL WRITER! 

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Hank and I have similar rages

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Well that ain't polite. You just about hit me and now you're gonna sling foul utterances in my direction?

Raylan Givens

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So...

Elliot and Angela planned runaway escapades based on my favorite childhood book: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! Now I want to read it again. Love this show!

[risarodil]

Do the thing! (x)

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Allison: When you grow up, your heart dies.

Andrew: Who cares?

Allison: I care.

[thekingsthorns]

tyrell and wife plotting to invite rival over for dinner 

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Ooo! Someone combined my two favorite fandoms!

[mrrobotgiffed]

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This pretty much sums up my interactions with most people.

[leah-cultice]

Benthe De Vries by Ahmet Unver for L'officiel Turkey June 2015

[triggerfishie]

WATCH OUT

[laurakvstheworld]

This is the best vine I’ve ever seen.

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This just made me the best mom to a train and animal-obsessed 4 year old.

[kateoplis]

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All of this

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I thinking may have found the perfect planner set up with a custom travelers notebook cover from @thefoxyfix and adorable printed agendas from @maydesigns. Although, I also may have followed the white rabbit down the hole to a planner subculture. These things exist. #plannerobsessed #plannerlove #foxyjournal #foxydori #travelersnotebook #maydesigns #etsylove #imayhaveaproblem #planners

[edwardspoonhands]

Hank, I just reblogged a post that you reblogged and comment (awesome and insightful comment btw) and something about the previous comments caught my eye and I just wanted to ask you about it? Are breasts sex organs? When I googled it, there weren't very many sources on the matter, or well, many news articles aside from a Psychology Today post. And I don't know if you'd want to make a SciShow video about this but looking at this question from both a cultural and scientific POV is interesting.

I mean, what’s a sex organ? It’s not like there is some deity that decides what an organ’s purpose is and is and thus which organ can be shared in public. Laws (and more importantly, norms) are made by culture, not by science. So when people get all yelly about how women shouldn’t breast feed because boobs are “sex organs” and dudes aren’t waving their penises around in public, it would make equal sense to say “Women shouldn’t breastfeed in public because Shakespeare and Mark Twain weren’t contemporaries.” 

The argument makes literally no sense, and is (in my lingo) a hypothetheory (an untested argument that affirms the position of the arguer, so they never think to apply even the most rudimentary scrutiny.)

The reason some people have a hard time with public breast feeding is literally and only because their culture identifies nude breasts as taboo no matter the reason they are exposed. That’s the whole thing. That’s it. Every other argument is just someone trying to defend their worldview. Taboos are legitimate and every culture has them even if they’re rarely rational. 

This is an area where our culture has an internal disagreement about what should and should not be taboo. The real problem is that the taboo is being mostly enforced and upheld by the people who are in no way affected by it (men) to the detriment of those who are affected by it (mothers.) 

There’s an easy tie breaker here…which is the group who is being literally physically controlled by the other side’s point of view? That is the group that society should find in favor of. Breast feeding in public should be legal, which is why it is legal in every state (and with express laws on the books to protect the rights of breast feeding mothers in every state except, for some reason, Idaho.)

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End of discussion.

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My kitchen looks (and smells) glorious, thanks to @erinsunshine210 #peonies #spring

[retroreverbs]

Food For Thought by Sonia Allison (1967).

[luckypeach]

OMG want

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I have this casserole dish!

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A chilly day at the beach beats a warm day at home. #OCMD #oceancity (at BJ's on the Water)