swears happen.

Seriously. The “that’s how we do it in Canada” line is never going to work on me. I fucking invented it.

English lit graduate from my rival college, former senior editor for a “cool” Canadian magazine and writer for Readers Digest, HuffPost, etc - 0

Third rate liberal arts college dropout with a half completed copy editing cert - 1

Councillor and counselor are not interchangeable, regardless of what country you live in. “Smelt” is also not the past tense of smell. (Apparently, I was wrong about that but, seriously, unless you’re referring to the person who dealt it…) Your education and experience is invalid. Just saying.

shortformblog:

The GOP candidates, and their canine equivalents

Dead-ringers or distant cousins? In New Zealand, Pedigree’s leading an awesome adoption drive with this insane Flash app called Doggelganger, in which you can compare the photos of people with the photos of dogs. One of our readers, Margarita Noriega, had a great idea for us: What if we took the GOP candidates and found them some canine soulmates? It’d be awesome, right? Of course! Hence, this photoset, above. How about you? Do you have a canine soulmate? Click over here to find out.

This is an affront to dogs everywhere!

Today I hate the entire world and everyone in it. For no reason.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Summer Festival, Spain
Photo: Tino Soriano

Young people in oversize papier-mache heads pause in a blooming field on the way to a summer festival in the town of Banyoles. Called capgrossos in Catalan, the big heads are often worn on feast days.

ilovecharts:

Alternate Title: Things I Learned at my Mother’s Birthday Brunch

-Madeline Wigen

Add Coldplay for the ultimate in accuracy.

Pretending I’m Vinnie.

medieval:

The Borgund Stave Church, Norway. Built between 1180 - 1250 ce.

think-progress:

Last night, a Democratic campaign manager in Arkansas arrived home to find his child’s cat murdered, the word ‘LIBERAL’ written on the carcass. 

Meanwhile, in the What’s Really Wrong with American files…