After Ivy

I am a Social Psychology PhD student, have already earned my Masters, and hope to be a doctor, university professor, & researcher when I'm 27.

I am an Indie-Kid and, given that I spend most of my time playing Psychology, most of the cathartic joy I find here will be to satiate purely artistic pleasures.

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Neuroscientist, sexy, smartest women from South America to grace U.S. shores, and a hipster in the side

Alizryd Denobrillis, dining above the city of Dallas (Liz rocking the sexy tie)

Romney created 15k jobs per year

While Romney was Governor, MA employment grew from 3, 230,000 to 3,290,000 (15,000 jobs per year).

Unemployment was 5.6% when Romney took office in 2003, and 4.7% when he left in 2007; a difference of .9%.

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On Sunday, in discussing the uses of the word “hero” to describe those members of the armed forces who have given their lives, I don’t think I lived up to the standards of rigor, respect and empathy for those affected by the issues we discuss that I’ve set for myself. I am deeply sorry for that.
As many have rightly pointed out, it’s very easy for me, a TV host, to opine about the people who fight our wars, having never dodged a bullet or guarded a post or walked a mile in their boots. Of course, that is true of the overwhelming majority of our nation’s citizens as a whole. One of the points made during Sunday’s show was just how removed most Americans are from the wars we fight, how small a percentage of our population is asked to shoulder the entire burden and how easy it becomes to never read the names of those who are wounded and fight and die, to not ask questions about the direction of our strategy in Afghanistan, and to assuage our own collective guilt about this disconnect with a pro-forma ritual that we observe briefly before returning to our barbecues.
But in seeking to discuss the civilian-military divide and the social distance between those who fight and those who don’t, I ended up reinforcing it, conforming to a stereotype of a removed pundit whose views are not anchored in the very real and very wrenching experience of this long decade of war. And for that I am truly sorry.

- Chris Hayes Apologizes For Memorial Day Remarks About The Word ‘Heroes’ - Mediaite (via brooklynmutt)

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saddest-summer:

A lonely Fitzgerald wrote this card to himself

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Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XIX #Maddow

Seeing Through My Eyes: I have a newfound respect for Joe Biden when he addressed the families of fallen soldiers.

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Vice President Joe Biden…recounted the agonizing experience of losing his first wife and daughter in a car crash in 1972.

Biden was so distraught in the wake of the accident that he even admitted pondering thoughts of suicide, he told families of fallen troops.

“It was the first time in my…

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