January 2012
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“Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative,...”
– Saul alinsky
“I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that… I...”
– Newt Gingrich, leading off the South Carolina debate with a rebuke to moderator John King, who asked Gingrich about his ex-wife Marianne’s claims he asked for an “open marriage” while leading the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton. He was met with thunderous applause.
More debate...
“For more than a decade, Google search wasn’t “social” in any way. When I...”
– Google social search: The tech giant’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results. - Slate Magazine (via ayjay)
Agreed.
“Despite the fact that Christ was abandoned and rejected, God in Christ had...”
– The Incarnation as God’s Leap of Faith « An und für sich
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“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the Vietnam War)
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December 2011
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The Soviet Union's Afterlife | The Nation →
Three different looks at the afterlife of the USSR, one from Gorbachev. One is behind a paywall.
Fascinating, what a world we live in right now.
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“Rowling wrote Hermione to eschew stereotypes. She doesn’t end up with the hero;...”
– Liz Feuerbach, “The Women of the Harry Potter Universe” (via writingadvice)
Every woman Rowling writes is a badass of the highest order. The entire theatre cheered at everything Molly Weasley and Professor McGonagall did. HBsIC, I tell ya.
(via film-schooled)
Old quote, but still true.
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Clients From Hell: I work in a bakery in which we... →
clientsfromhell:
I work in a bakery in which we can take images given to us by customers and transfer them into edible images that can be placed onto the cakes. One client wanted a full sheet cake with a very large image of a group of people.
Client: When you said the color might change, what did you mean?
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Right, we live in a “post-racist society”.
“My fellow queers and assorted allies: we have got to stop using arguments like...”
– Social Justice League - Fauxgress Watch: Born This Way (via subconciousevolution)
Perfect.
(via agradschoolbreakup)
This is the TRUTH. “Born This Way” is not powerful. It’s something to hide behind.
(via queerlyfemmetastic)
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via mutualaddiction)
Are you mad yet? You should be. →
cliffordthecorrupt:
Republicans push Keystone pipeline, pinning decision to payroll-tax bill
The Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday became the key pawn in a holiday-season game of political brinkmanship between congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama, with the GOP linking construction of the oilsands project to approval of White House-backed legislation extending jobless...
“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a...”
– “A Song On The End Of The World” | Czeslaw Milosz
“Most Americans won’t notice these lost opportunities. They don’t get out much or...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
Reblogging without further comment, because none is necessary.
(via undercovernun)
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Elliott Carter is 103 Years Old Today
thebigcityblog:
I don’t know if he takes Sundays off. If so, then tomorrow morning he’ll write more music. Can’t embed this, but go to Boosey for a video interview, bio, and to take a look at his estimable art. He’s doing things no one else has ever done, thing that most of us never thought possible.
What an incredible human.
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Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? ...
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“The instructor said,
Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let...”
– Langston Hughes, “Theme for Engllish B”
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“Just when you thought Barack Obama couldn’t get any more out of touch with...”
– A statement by Rick Perry • Criticizing President Obama over a memorandum he issued today, which stated broad support for advancing LGBT rights and protecting them from violence. It explicitly mentions the efforts of foreign governments to criminalize LGBT persons (the state of affairs in Uganda the...
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“The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist parties — differing...”
– Eugene V. Debs (via cultureofresistance)
This is what I mean when I say there is no real Left (as a political party) in the US.
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Fors Clavigera: Taking Leave of Religion? On... →
This blog post has the gem:
To say that humans are essentially “religious” is to claim that they are primed to worship, wired devote themselves to something as ultimate, to ascribe “worthship” to some ultimate end. So while people might be “taking leave” of belief in God or gods, or “apostasizing” from specific communities of religious...
November 2011
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The Left-Behinds - Michael Hirsh -... →
“We have manufacturing companies who say to us, ‘I don’t want to look at those people. They’re not used to showing up and coming to work anymore,’ ” says Stefani Pashman, head of the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board in Pittsburgh. Unemployment counselors talk about the difficulties of teaching “soft skills”—such as simply showing up on time for an interview and wearing something...
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Propagandastan - By David Trilling | Foreign... →
When people read a news website, they don’t usually imagine that it is being run by a major producer of fighter jets and smart bombs. But when the Pentagon has its own vision of America’s foreign policy, and the funds to promote it, it can put a $23 billion defense contractor in a unique position to report on the war on terror.