By tweeting “best friends, forever,” Joe Biden invoked a code that’s familiar to all young Americans. He drew a line that cannot be ignored, between real friends and political frenemies, the haters and frauds who fold in the face of pressure and controversy.
It’s spelled B-F-F.
(via newsweekscience)
Took the West B today. Passed reading and math. Results for writing come in 2-3 weeks.
Moving forward.
Harper Lee’s natural brilliance fused with an incredible attention to detail—and a fervor to write about racism and injustice against the wishes of critics. But she was humble, too.
Harper Lee wasn’t born a famous author or Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. And she still joked about meeting real authors—her peers—after 30,000 copies of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ were already sold.
Here’s an incredible true story on how Lee approached one harsh commenter, from a 1961 Newsweek profile:
Snowed under with fan letters, Harper Lee is stealing time from a new novel-in-progress to write careful answers.
Her favorite letter, a little out of the mold, is a roasting from a crank in Oklahoma who heard she was guilty of writing a novel in which an innocent Negro is convicted of raping a moronic white woman. ‘In this day of mass rape of white women who are not morons,’ her accuser demanded, 'why is it that you young Jewish authors seek to whitewash the situation?'
Will this rate an answer, too?
'Oh, yes,’ said the author—who is kin to Robert E. Lee.
'I think I’ll say, 'Dear Sir or Madam, somebody is using your name to write dirty letters. You should notify the FBI.’
‘And I’m going to sign it, Harper Levy.’
(via lostinthehereandnow-blog)
You know. Today was a good day.
Kills 9 people in a brutal assault.
Is armed when found after a manhunt.
Still isn’t placed in handcuffs.
This is the definition of White privilege.He was absolutely put in handcuffs you dingbats. Stop assuming a poorly cropped picture on Twitter is the Gospel.
Not only that. He did not resist arrest. Police do not use force when it is not necessary. Don’t resist arrest.
This.
(via the-youngg-guns)
life:
Larry and his dog Dunk relaxing on a hot summers day in Iowa, 1945. (Myron Davis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #howisummer
ENGLISH GIRLS official video
Director : Daniel James Gomes
Spoiler Alert: Pat is ok in bed.
Roots.