May 2012
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“Sitting for long periods of time — when you don’t stand up, don’t move at all — tends to cause changes physiologically within your muscles. You stop breaking up fat in your blood stream, you start getting accumulations of fat … in your liver, your heart and your brain. You get sleepy. You gain weight. You basically are much less healthy than if you’re moving.”
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If you’re reading this Tumblr post while sitting down, stand up! Here’s more reasons why. (via nprfreshair)
Tumblr—it’s a day to stand up!
Billboard comes up with 20 great gay moments in music →
billboard.com
My fave of the list is probably Jill Sobule’s “I Kissed a Girl.” I know she’s over it, but I’m still annoyed with Katy Perry.
also, new Tumblr alert!
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
—Barack Obama in an interview with ABC News (via nprfreshair)
