Vanilla Cheesecake with Blueberries
January 27th, 2012
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I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger
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Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal.
But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred Loving, of African American and Native American descent.
The case changed history - and was captured on film by LIFE photographer Grey Villet, whose black-and-white photographs are now set to go on display at the International Center of Photography.
Twenty images show the tenderness and family support enjoyed by Mildred and Richard and their three children, Peggy, Sidney and Donald.
The children, unaware of the struggles their parents face, are captured by Villet as blissfully happy as they play in the fields near their Virginia home or share secrets with their parents on the couch.
Their parents, caught sharing a kiss on their front porch, appear more worry-stricken.
And it is no wonder - eight years prior, the pair had married in the District of Columbia to evade the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which banned any white person marrying any non-white person.
But when they returned to Virginia, police stormed into their room in the middle of the night and they were arrested.
The pair were found guilty of miscegenation in 1959 and were each sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for 25 years if they left Virginia.
They moved back to the District of Columbia, where they began the long legal battle to erase their criminal records - and justify their relationship.
Following vocal support from the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches, the Lovings won the fight - with the Supreme Court branding Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law unconstitutional in 1967.
It wrote in its decision: ‘Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man, fundamental to our very existence and survival.
‘To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law.’ [Read more]
I have never seen these pictures and while it makes me really proud of their fight I’m also in awe of their love
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Portal 2 OST (Volume 3) / Cara Mia Addio!
January 26th, 2012
It upsets me that Megaupload’s been shut down.
The artists endorse the site, and don’t mind that their songs are being pirated (because they don’t really get money from album sales, and it gets their work out there, creating more fans who buy concert tickets, which is where they get most of their revenue), however, the site was taken down because the record labels don’t like it.
People are led to believe that music piracy really hurts the musical artists, but if they’re popular enough that their songs are being pirated, they’re not the ones getting hurt. In reality, the only people it even comes close to hurting are record executives, and it barely hurts them.
Downloading an album is no more piracy than borrowing a friend’s CD and importing it to your iPod. Downloading a TV show is no more piracy than using a DVR.
And I don’t know about everyone else, but all the downloaders I know have every intention of buying that product later. People who download music are more likely to discover a new favorite band and buy concert tickets. People who download movies have usually seen the movie already in theaters and have every intention of purchasing the DVD as soon as it’s available. People who download ebooks probably either already own a paper copy or, if they’ve discovered a new author will buy their next book.
Neil Gaiman, on the subject of internet piracy, once asked a crowd of people whether or not they had a favorite author, someone whose works they would purchase by simply because it was written by them. Almost everyone raised their hands. He then asked whether or not they had discovered this person by going into the store and buying something they had written. Almost no one raised their hand. Neil Gaiman views internet piracy as “borrowing.”
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two kittens hugging while they sleep (x)*3*
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