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Riddler and His Hunky Henchman Vs Batman by Bevis Musson
Riddler and The Henchman by Bevis Musson.
Bevis has been doing a series of doodles/sketches about the Riddler and his buff, scantily-clad henchman over at his DA. I am full of ♥.
Oh! ♥♥♥! ♥! ♥!!!!
Hey folks!
Kawaiibunga! This was the word uttered by fellow Drawed Gooder, Burton Durand. He said draw something cute, and when Burt tells you to do something, you listen!
My favorite breed of dog is the French bulldog (followed closely by the pug and then the Boston terrier - I love those squishy scrunchy-faced dogs), so I thought I’d draw an adorable Frenchy as an ice cream man. For the most part, I’m pretty happy with it. :)
Enjoy!
~Drew
This is mine! :)
Reblogged for people who will appredciate it. (You know who you are).
Now, Monsanto is getting sneakier. Prior to the last few years, home gardeners were mostly exempt from the Monsanto problem, because the company was focusing on big agriculture. Having penetrated that market thoroughly, though, Monsanto is turning to the home gardening market…with a vengeance. It’s buying up a number of major seed suppliers and that includes those putting out seeds for Early Girl tomatoes, Early Butternut squash, Sierra Blanca onions, and many, many more favourite cultivars that have been used by home gardeners for decades.
HEY LOOK IT’S YOUR WEEKLY TERRIFYING ARTICLE ABOUT MONSANTO AND WHY THEY ARE SCARY.
What I find frustrating about the dialogue about Monsanto and GMOs is that people tend to latch onto the the fact of genetic modification as the evil thing. Well, newsflash, we’ve been genetically modifying plants for several thousand years now, and I really don’t think it’s the experimentation that’s going to kill us — it’s the wildly unethical business practices and lack of genetic diversity in our crops that are going to lead to disaster.
I entirely agree that it’s the wildly unethical business practices and lack of genetic diversity in crops that are going to lead to disaster, but I also think that those are exactly the things that make genetically modified crops so dangerous. Genetically modifying crops in a huge mono-culture is a disaster waiting to happen, not just because the mono-culture is a disaster to begin with, but because when we f-up (and we have been f-ing up at genetically modifying plants for thousands of years too) it will kill everybody’s plants.
I’d also like to point out that, like it or not, the current methods for modifying crops mean that the actual gene pool of the plant changes much more rapidly than ever before. When you don’t deliberately make rapid changes to the gene pool of the plant you have certain types of stability: you can trust that the crops will likely still grow under similar conditions, be subject to the same blights, cause allergies in the same people, and have the same effects on the soil and other plants. With our current genetically modified crops, we’ve had problems with new food allergies, and with plants which don’t affix nitrogen the way the original crops did.
I’m not saying that I think GMOs are evil, but I think that allowing the patenting of genes has turned genetically modifying organisms into the type of big business that is mostly uninterested in these problems once it can argue them down to a small percentage of the bottom line. Personally, I think that means the rest of us need to take these problems that much more seriously.
So I believe in food labeling for GMOs. Not because I think the GMOs are actually hurting people (though I know a lot of people do) but because I think it forces the companies to be more accountable to the public. It forces them to put more effort into convincing everyone that these products aren’t going to hurt them, and I think that forces them to put more effort into mitigating any possible problems. I consider that a win (if a small one). These companies would have you believe that a little labeling would push them off the market, but despite all the bad rap corn syrup gets, a couple seconds in the grocery store will show you that it’s on labels and still doing fine.
Ultimately, I think the most important thing is to stop the patenting of genes, but I also think this is important enough to go for what we can make happen sooner, and I think that food labels are it: there is a precedent for successful action on food labeling, and it won’t hurt the companies so much that they’ll oppose it with all the force they’ll use to protect their patents.
(Source: se-smith)
Oh! I think I want to do this now.
(Source: eatyourcheeks)
Mia Drane-Maury: The 13 Most Useful* College Majors (As Determined By Science) (via newsweek)
HOW ABOUT THIS QUESTION: WHO THE FUCK DOES HIGHER EDUCATION SERVE OTHER THAN THE ALREADY-WEALTHY IF ITS ONLY FUNCTION IS TO PRODUCE A DOCILE, SKILLED, AND EMPLOYABLE WORKFORCE?
CHRIST. THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY.
If the only point of my work as a professor is prepping my students to major in the sciences or business/marketing and grow into good little capitalist worker bees, I may as well just quit now. The parameters of this conversation need to change, or the end result is going to be an ugly public battle over the worth of Fine Arts and Humanities programs, which is really scary if you value public access to intellectual inquiry. People hate on English and philosophy degrees left and right these days. (The ironic thing is that almost everyone I know with an English degree actually has a job, and many of them jobs that pay quite well by today’s standards…including me, if you count benefits and tuition waivers in addition to the stipend. Can’t say the same for all those people who did the “practical” thing and majored in primary education instead.)
A large chunk of the problem comes from students being misled to believe that college should equal a job, and that getting a job is THE ONLY REASON why anyone goes to college. This is why we have so many unemployed college graduates. We’ve convinced them that EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO TO COLLEGE (and that ideally you should go to “a good college”), which has in turn led to god-knows-how-many kids taking on impossible amounts of debt to get through school, only to discover that it’s even harder to survive, job or no job, when you’ve got loan repayments that total more than your monthly rent and car payments combined, and no health insurance to speak of.
And the jobs college grads get these days, on average, pay less than they did ten years ago. This is what happens in capitalism when the market gets flooded with any one commodity: it loses value. As more and more college grads enter the job market in debt and fail to find work, higher education will lose its cultural value, which makes it an easy target for conservative politicians championing austerity measures.
I can’t help but read politics into the notion that fields encouraging critical analysis are often the first to be labeled “useless” in this country. Of course, these fields are home to many of the most radical leftist communities in America, many of whose members have become increasingly politically active and vocal over the last year. Denigrating the work of academics in the humanities and social sciences—one of VERY few sources of political critique in this country that has a contentious relationship with corporations and capitalism— is incredibly counterproductive to anyone interested in pushing back against the dangerous anti-intellectualism (coming from the far right) that pervades our atmosphere right now.
College graduates aren’t failing to get jobs because they majored in the wrong thing. They’re failing to get jobs because there are no jobs for them to get, and they’re struggling to survive even when employed because the jobs that are there don’t pay well. This is happening because we live in a phase of late capitalism during which wealth is increasingly concentrated among a very small group of people.
If the media keep making this “why can’t the kids get jobs” conversation about individual students making “useless” choices in terms of college major instead of the million other systemic factors that have put our generation in this situation, then they are lending their voices to a seriously troubling anti-intellectual discourse that echoes the anti-intellectual rhetoric of the right.
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Kale Chips
I love vegetables. Seriously. But sometimes you just need a change from the normal ways you cook things. Kale is a vegetable I sometimes find a little tricky to deal with. 1) There is usually a lot of it in a bunch and it seems to expand as you chop it. 2) It can be a bit tough, even with long cooking, which makes a limit to how much I’m willing to eat of it at a single go. That said, kale is extraordinarily full of nutrients! So it’s worth learning how to cook it in different ways. I must say, kale chips have won my heart.
Kale chips make a great afternoon snack. Or evening snack. Or, really, something to eat at any time. I’m a sucker for crunchy things, so it’s nice to have an alternative to other not so good for you crunchy snacks. Plus, they’re so easy to make! <3
I was just eating kale chips and I saw this and thought, yes, people need to know about this. So tasty, so easy. Try it!
There’s a sense, looking at Monsanto, of living in an actual realfax dystopian novel, because what the company seems to be aiming for is utter control of all methods of food production not just in the US, but around the world. It’s actually not a bad move strategically if you are an evil biotech company, because once you control the source of the food, you control the populace. And with the company growing each year, it’s able to effectively steamroller over naysayers who express concern.
WHERE IS THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION TO MAKE THESE PEOPLE DIE AND GO AWAY
I guess this is a good place to start:
http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
This seems like an interesting list of articles in general (the current case seems hopeful):http://cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentListing.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=80&contentid=0&folderid=0&taxid=8&clt=News
I want to write an article about what the government could possibly do to help farmers transition away from monoculture, so, yay! sources.
Ugh I will be honest and say I hate reading about large seed companies because for some reason they sound more like harbingers of the apocalypse to me than melting glaciers and sad polar bears. HERUGH.
I agree entirely. While melting glaciers are a byproduct of the goals of big business and an eventual disaster for us, the multitude of obvious problems with the actions of seed companies is not the byproduct of their goals but their desired result. These companies WANT to reduce biodiversity (monocultures make them more money). They WANT to put small (and especially organic) farmers out of business (those people aren’t giving them more money). They WANT to make DNA intellectual property (despite having had nothing to do with its creation). They WANT genetically modified crops to go untested (they can make the money faster).
If we’re going to continue to let companies do whatever they want, it’s not the byproducts of corporate interests that will end us, but the corporate interests themselves.
(Source: se-smith)
There’s a sense, looking at Monsanto, of living in an actual realfax dystopian novel, because what the company seems to be aiming for is utter control of all methods of food production not just in the US, but around the world. It’s actually not a bad move strategically if you are an evil biotech company, because once you control the source of the food, you control the populace. And with the company growing each year, it’s able to effectively steamroller over naysayers who express concern.
WHERE IS THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION TO MAKE THESE PEOPLE DIE AND GO AWAY
I guess this is a good place to start:
http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
This seems like an interesting list of articles in general (the current case seems hopeful):
(Source: se-smith)
Anonymous asked: Yo, check it out: two great flavors of racism, mixed together in one delicious breakfast!
(I still really want to eat those bacon-cakes now, though. That’s not racist, right?)
FRY ME UP SOME OF THEM OPPRESSION CAKES
For real though, those look gross as fuck.
Uhhhh…..
I was watching an episode of Teachers, and one of the teachers got a text message.
The alert sound was “… — …”, which just really randomly made me happy.
