Monicks

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[wowmonica]

It's my 16 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[mcgeekiest]

It is not “intolerance” to oppose Trump and his supporters

It is all the rage in some conservative circles online to point at people who oppose Donald Trump, or who oppose supporters of Trump, and say “Look at you, preaching tolerance all the time, and now you show that you are nothing but a bigot!”

OK.  Let’s break this one down.

“Tolerance”, properly construed, is merely a convenient shorthand for recognizing the humanity of others and their right to carry on in any fashion that does not actively harm another person.  It is not magnanimity to “tolerate” gay people, or fat people, or people in wheelchairs, or people with a different skin color — rather, it is an act of wickedness to ostracize them.

Likewise, no one argues that we should tolerate a man who is assaulting someone in the middle of the street.  It is an immoral act to permit an assault — when you prevent violence, you are not denying a man his right to harm others, you are supporting his victim’s right not to be subjected to violence.

I would go a step further: it is an immoral act to tolerate someone who stands by and watches a man commit violence against another human being without attempting to intercede, let alone someone who cheers that man on.  Such a person is not expressing a simple difference; such a person is enabling an unjust act.  And that gets us to Trump and his supporters.

No, I will not “tolerate” Donald Trump.  No, I will not “tolerate” your right to support Donald Trump.  To do so would, itself, be an injustice.  Trump is — with every breath and every joke and every grope — degrading and insulting and injuring and threatening and violating our fellow citizens.  To oppose him, and the people who enable him, is not called “intolerance”.  To oppose them is called “morality”.

[mcgeesorg]

Twenty Years of Magic: The Gathering

[wowmonica]

Twenty years ago tonight — Halloween of 1993 — I opened my first Magic: The Gathering cards and played for the first time…

[manabasecrafter]

"He put a Counterspell on his Isochron! That was so gay!"

"I was surprised. I saw a bunch of kids playing Magic, but they were all black."

"That hot girl at the tournament? Yeah, I think she was there to support her boyfriend."

That stuff sound familiar? Those are actual statements I...

[wowgawd]

Ever wondered how the bunnies & eggs got involved?

[wowmonica]

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[wowmonica]

We are insignificant…and that is awesome!

[wowmonica]

[wowmonica]

"I'll pray for you!" I'd rather you didn't. It's kinda creepy knowing that you're talking to yourself about me just before bedtime. -- Monica

https://twitter.com/#!/Monicks/status/166266751502389248

[wowmonica]

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[wowmonica]

I have tried to find a way to transfer everything from "wowgawd" to here, but Tumblr does not seem to have a way for me to do that.

If you happen to know how, please let me know.

If you follow this blog, please be aware that when a post ends up here, is because I forgot to choose the right blog to post it to. Sigh. I know, me-so-lame. Is it okay if I ask you to unfollow me here and follow my active blog?

All your suggestions are greatly appreciated. You can leave your comments here.

Meh, Tumblr. I love you, but meh.

[wowmonica]

Dr. Deamer joins us to talk about the latest research into the origin of life on Earth. Dr. David Deamer is a biochemist at the University of California Santa Cruz and the NASA Astrobiology Institute working on the role of membranes in the origin of cellular life on Earth. His research over the last 30 years has contributed greatly to solving the riddle of abiogenesis. He is the author of the newly published First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began.

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[wowmonica]

I second that.