Kathryn Brightbill

I’ve concluded that fountain pens are a way for middle aged, wealthy men to get away with writing with more ink colors than a middle school girl.

Perception equals truth. Before the 18th century, people knew that everything revolved around the Earth. Galileo couldn’t argue convincingly enough against the Catholic Church and if you stand outside without the benefit of what we consider basic scientific education it really does look like our planet is the center of everything. One viewpoint might be […]

People will try to connect a recent suspension from school over marijuana possession to Trayvon Martin’s murder. Those people are desperate to make us forget that an unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was stalked and murdered by a paranoid, armed racist named George Michael Zimmerman, and that his murder has NOTHING to do with the school suspension. NOTHING.

People will try to connect a recent suspension from school over marijuana possession to Trayvon Martin’s murder. Those people are desperate to make us forget that an unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was stalked and murdered by a paranoid, armed racist named George Michael Zimmerman, and that his murder has NOTHING to do with the school […]

The new Doctor Who trailer!

And now we know why they were filming on the sets in Spain where so many of the great spaghetti westerns were filmed–it looks like The Doctor is going to visit the wild west! It’s “Cowboys and Aliens” Doctor Who style and I can’t wait!

Stop Complaining about “Fake Geek Girls,” it means we’ve succeeded

This is an expanded version of something I posted on facebook… Forbes has an article this week titled, “Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away” and while I understand the reasons behind the threads of resentment running through the article, that sentiment is colossally missing the point. The author spends much of the piece obsessing […]

Once you see it… wilwheaton: doctorwho: pilgrimkitty: tea-and-sarcasm: CANNOT UNSEE *flail*

A concise history of black-white relations in the U.S.A. (don’t know the original source, stolen from a poster on Fark.com)

okigetit: (via NUTELLA CAKE | Recipes | Nigella Lawson)

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. Langston Hughes

Here’s a video of Jon Stewart interviewing Quentin Tarantino about Pulp Fiction before either of them were household names. Surprisingly, Jon Stewart didn’t know who Sergio Leone was. Not surprisingly, Tarantino was singing the praises of Pam Grier as an actress (for the record, I still think Jackie Brown was Tarantino’s best work, and the […]