terrymooreart:

There will be a new Strangers In Paradise story next year for 2013—the 20th anniversary of SiP. You’ll have to wait until then to find out what America’s cutest couple has been up to, but one thing I can tell you, they’re very clean.

thepeoplesrecord:

…because as a “celibate”, partially closeted, queer with social anxiety disorder… I’m slightly out of touch.

Our answer to everything in the United States: When in doubt, build more prisons.

“The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention.” - Pete Brook, Wired.com (click through for source article)

For comparison, the annual spending for k-12 education (per child) is less than $8000 (source) - it costs 10x less to educate than incarcerate.

tastefullyoffensive:

[ponderabout]

This could have been written to me. I think I fucked up like this. I let an important girl slip by.

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