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#MyPlayoffMoment When the @stlouisblues beat @nhlblackhawks for the series. Such a rollercoaster of emotion!!!

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What she says: I’m okay

What she really means: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor,row up to be a hero and a scholar? The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father,got a lot farther by workin’ a lot harder by bein’ a lot smarter, by bein’ a self-starter, by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter. And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up inside, he was longing for something to be a part of the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter. Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned,our man saw his future drip, drippin’ down the drain. Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain,and he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain. Well the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man!” yook up a collection just to send him to the mainland“Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and the world’s gonna know your name! What’s your name, man?“ Alexander Hamilton, my name is Alexander Hamilton, and there’s a million things I haven’t done. But just you wait, just you wait. When he was ten, his father split, full of it, debt-ridden, two years later, see Alex and his mother, bed-ridden, half-dead, sittin’ in their own sick, the scent thick. And Alex got better but his mother went quick. Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide, left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, somethin’ new inside. A voice saying ”(Alex) you gotta fend for yourself" He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf. There would’ve been nothin’ left to do for someone less astute, he would’ve been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution. Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord, tradin’ sugar cane and rum and other things he can’t afford Scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on Plannin’ for the future, see him now as he stands on (oooh) the bow of a ship headed for a new land. In New York you can be a new man. In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait). In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait). In New York you can be a new man. In New York, New York. Just you wait!!! Alexander Hamilton, we are waitin’ in the wings for you. You could never back down, you never learned to take your time!!! Oh, Alexander Hamilton! When America sings for you, will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game? The world will never be the same, oh! The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him. Another immigrant comin’ up from the bottom. His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him. We fought with him. Me? I died him. Me? I trusted him. Me? I loved him. And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him (shot him). There’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait! What’s your name man? ALEXANDER HAMILTON!!!!!!

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Ryan Reynolds wins Best Comedic Performance for Deadpool at the MTV Movie Awards

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What did the [Star Wars] Non-disclosure Agreement look like? Can you even talk about that?

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Pottermore Quiz

As requested by a couple of people, here is the copy of the actual Pottermore quiz that will break down how much of each house you identify with at the end of the quiz. And before you say “omg, that equals to more than a hundred percent!” this quiz works a little differently than most. Instead of questions that are like “"this" answer is the Slytherin one and “this” answer is the clearly Hufflepuff one” I believe that the questions work more like “this option gets you 5 points for Slytherin, this one gets you 4, this one gets you 3 to add up at the end” etc for all the houses, so they’re like “how much is this a _blank house_ thing to do” which is probably a more accurate representation than the former option.

Example: My results were 82% Slytherin and 79% Ravenclaw, so I’d probably be one of the ones that the sorting hat took my preference into account, since I’m almost equally both. ;)

Quiz

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This gets to me on a pretty deep level. Yes it's vulgar and degrading in a way but he's not wrong. All children are works of art, we should treat them as such.

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"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

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This Comedian Nails Why The Mental Illness + Creativity Connection is Ridiculous

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Did anyone else read that in Lady Gaga's voice?

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A women after my own heart.

Emma Thompson probably has an easy answer to all your existential questions.

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What do you do in half an hour?

If I offered you $4 to come to my house and make me dinner and wash my dishes afterwards, would you do it? Probably not. But that’s what a minimum wage worker at McDonald’s can do in a half hour.

What about $8 to come over and play with my kid and teach her to read and change her if she needs it and do all other assorted activities for an hour? Again, probably not. But that’s what a day care worker might do in an hour.

If I paid you $4, would you come over and make my bed and vaccume my room and do some of my laundry and clean my bathroom and pick up trash and dust? Probably not but that’s what a hotel maid might do in half an hour.

When you break it down into smaller increments it’s obvious that people need to be paid more, that the minium wage is pathetic.

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Artists uses Disney princes to highlight domestic abuse’s least visible victims

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Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Black man who was Martin Luther King’s right hand man. He planned the Million Man March and was subject to scrutiny for his sexuality and deemed a “deviant” and “pervert”.

Bayard Rustin can be found in nearly every picture of MLK yet he has undoubtedly been erased from history. We have to fix that.

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Benedict getting sidetracked midspeech.