1. "I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are."
    Teju Cole (via semperes)
  2. npr: Monday, is that you? But you’re back so soon…—Daisy

    npr:

    Monday, is that you? But you’re back so soon…
    —Daisy

  3. »  How Birth Control Saves Taxpayers Money

    I realize this is an article from NPR about research coming from a “left-leaning” organization, but it’s also not the first research to show this trend. I also realize there are a lot of moral objections to contraceptives on various levels, but isn’t preventing the pregnancy from happening in the first place better at least than the abortions that occur after the fact (which people are doing to do anyway, no matter how much you shame them or protest - not taking a moral stance here, just pointing out truth)? Not trying to stir up shit, just something to think about.

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