February 2010
“The largest lie is that everything the United States does is to be pardoned...”
– Howard Zinn (via azspot) (via selva) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
January 2010
“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Many of the new age and new thought people would claim enlightenment like this...”
– Anishinaabekwe: New Age and Privilege (via jadedhippy)
I have encountered this with a great many white, somewhat middle class new-agers. They want to construct this world of positive thinking and prety without seeing the realities of the people that they appropriate from.
Though they are only...
fuckyeahyokoono:
Question: What should be our intention when creating something in order for it to be considered as art? Yoko: You should create only if you love to create – with no other intention. If you keep thinking you want your creation to be considered as art by others, you will make yourself sick.
(Yoko QandA Day)
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
– Spinoza (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
Ah, one of the most misquoted quotes ever. Still very important, nonetheless. I know a few people who could use to have this tattooed on their foreheads.
Clue: if you ever want to cry “why does this keep happeneing to me?” then it is best to...
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art...”
– Robert Hughes (found on Deborah Barlow’s website where you can find images of her stunningly beautiful artwork as well as links to her exceptional blogs like Slow Muse.) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via originalface) (via tobia) (via kameelahwrites)
Tea Party Group Leader Arrested for Child Rape;... →
jadedhippy:
stfuconservatives:
bmckinney:
jonathan-cunningham:
We first noticed Marine Sgt. Charles Dyer, aka “July4Patriot,” back in March, when we ran one of the first reports on the “Oath Keepers” bloc of the Tea Party movement — an organization devoted to recruiting military and police-force veterans into a Patriot-movement belief system predicated on a series of paranoid conspiracy...
“Now the Republicans have had to cope with one big problem: their policies are...”
– History Unfolding (via azspot) (via think4yourself)
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child...”
– South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer Compares His State’s Poor Children to ‘Stray Animals’
You’ve never heard anyone literally dehumanize people who aren’t white, financially privileged, fully abled, of the wrong religion, etc.? Well, today’s your day.
(via amandaw)
I didn’t see where this was...
5 Jokes About The Apparent Eagerness Of Certain... →
abbyjean:
A member of the House Democratic Caucus goes to the doctor. The doctor says, “I have bad news and good news. The bad news is you have a broken foot. The good news is, you’re a congressman, which means you have health insurance, which means you’ll be able to get treatment without going totally bankrupt, unlike many of your constituents, who you are actively betraying by thinking only of...
“Today, the IMF put out an announcement clarifying the terms of its new loan to...”
– IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti’s Loan
PUBLIC PRESSURE WORKS. Let’s keep it up.
(via champagnecandy) (via jadedhippy)
“We humans are so careless. We only realize how beautiful life is when we chance...”
– Akira Kurosawa (via johannal) (via quote-book) (via muliebrity)
The SCOTUS Campaign Finance Decision - Problematic... →
think4yourself:
Some initial thoughts:
1) A Tragedy. Just as both parties were beginning to successfully adopt the bottom-up, people-centered, democracy-strenghtening model of politics of the new internet age, the Supreme Court blows the system to pieces. The decision will no doubt tilt a system that was evolving into a more people based model back towards one where privilege and money will...
The problem with fixing the Supreme Court ruling
think4yourself:
alcaniglia:
Plenty of politicians have been talking about the way to curb the Supreme Courts ruling yesterday, but I don’t know if they can. The Court specifically ruled on Constitutional rather than statutory grounds. Congress and the States could pass an Amendment but that ain’t ever gonna happen.
Any law that Congress passes will be subject to an immediate challenge. The...
“Fifty-nine senators, representing some 63 percent of the American public,...”
– James Fallows, “5 > 4, but 59 < 41” (via savingpaper) (via think4yourself)
“The National Penitentiary held 4,000 prisoners. We know that 60 to 80 percent of...”
– Dr. Evan Lyon, “Earthquake Frees Haitian Prisoners from Port-Au-Prince Jail, 80% Never Charged With A Crime” (via meloukhia)
wait, so when anderson cooper implied that the correct thing for those people to do when the prison was destroyed in the earthquake was to sit tight and wait for the justice...
Is bathing every single day healthy?
amandaw:
It’s actually not very good for many types of skin and hair. Every 2-3 days is usually a better balance of cleaning away bad stuff without also cleaning away good stuff (or never allowing it to develop).
You won’t see this get questioned in public very much, though.
To add to your point, I just saw this from @neilhimself on Twitter. Apparently, being dirty can make you happier :D
“The Mormon church wanted its members to support the 2008 effort to ban same-sex...”
– Mormon Church Aimed to Cover Tracks on Marriage Ban; Directed funds to outside organization
The IRS should strip the Roman Catholic church and the LDS of their tax-exempt status immediately. — Ryking
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*headdesk*
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It would be...
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“Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough. Unlike Jamaicans...”
– mark krikorian at the corner gives us a preview of arguments we’re sure to hear a lot more of in the near future. (via abbyjean)
going to vomit now.
“The “personhood” of a corporation is a necessary fiction to allow it to enter...”
– Aaron commenting on Feministe (via amandaw)
other rights that corporations have:
an expectation of privacy and freedom from search and seizure
protection from self-incrimination in criminal testimony
the right to a speedy and public trial by jury when the corporation itself is charged with...
“She may have been right. University of Pennsylvania researchers found that more...”
– The surprising reason why being overweight isn’t healthy - CNN.com (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Only surprising if you have never experienced it. Nice to see it hitting mainstream media tho.
Call for halt to Haiti adoptions over traffickers... →
abbyjean:
Thousands of children unaccounted for since Haiti’s earthquake are at risk of falling prey to child traffickers, aid agencies have warned, as fears were raised over at least 15 children who have vanished from hospitals within the past few days.
Unicef, the UN children’s agency, warned that “traffickers fish in pools of vulnerability. We know from past experience that trafficking ...
Also!
dorianisms:
annaoverseas:
I’m learning again that much of my “academic” writing style has been heavily influenced by blogging, and this is Not Good.
MINE TOO. This is a very real problem, I feel.
I actually ended up blogging because my academic writing style lent itself to the practice.
World Bank waiving Haiti’s debt payments →
think4yourself:
apsies:
bringmethathorizon:caraobrien:
Currently, Haiti’s debt to the World Bank, which is interest-free, is about $38 million—about 4% of Haiti’s total external debt. Due to the crisis caused by the earthquake, we are waiving any payments on this debt for the next five years and at the same time we are working to find a way forward to cancel the remaining debt.
Question
dorianisms:
Which (any?) of you have tattoos? What are they of? Were they painful?
Of course, you needn’t answer, but I am curious. (And the more I think about the idea of getting a tattoo of that Newsom quote from earlier, the more seriously I am considering it. I plan to think about it long and hard as a Real Possibility).
Advice?
I have three. Yes, there was pain involved, but it varied...
abbyjean:
bonesarecoralmade:
What is perhaps more difficult is to understand is how every disaster and every coup—including the numerous coups abetted by the U.S. government, such as those against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 and 2004—never ceases to inspire an old vision for the country: a site for multinational investment. Once a colony, then an occupied territory, then a land under the...
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“The thing that we always forget about the abortion debate is that this is an...”
– kay steiger on blog for choice day. (via abbyjean) (via bonesarecoralmade) (via rosasparks)
Its not forgotten by those on the ground, but it is forgotten by those who like to act like we don’t exist. Its not “no one talks about it,” its “no one that we consider worth...
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“I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed...”
– Paul Scott targets transgendered people in race for Secretary of State « Michigan Messenger
WE MUST PROTECT THE SANCTITY OF BATHROOMS.
BTW, Paul Scott, have you ever thought about what happens to trans women in men’s bathrooms?
via questioning transphobia
(via sexartandpolitics)
Okay, I...
“…a much greater danger to the republic than the anointing of corporations as...”
– Juan Cole (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics) (via dominickbrady) (via kameelahwrites)
Editorial - Out of the Woods - NYTimes.com →
abbyjean:
It takes a strange frame of mind to believe that demolishing a wooded encampment of homeless immigrant men and evicting them onto the streets during one of the coldest weeks of winter can be an act of prudence and compassion. But that is how the town of Huntington, in Suffolk County on Long Island, describes it.
It looks more like something else: an exercise in needless cruelty, in...
Arabian Sand Cat Kittens! →
(via meloukhia)
my ovaries flip-flopped
Usually I just laugh at the idiots who call into...
rosasparks:
gingerspice:
sistermarymartha:
thepoliticalpartygirl:
“I see people on food stamps buying steaks!” First of all, no you don’t. How do you know they’re on food stamps? Those debit cards are also used for social security and unemployment benefits. I get the feeling these people see minorities buying steaks and assume they are doing it with food stamps. And if the person you’re...
Daniel Rubin: It was no joke at security gate →
meloukhia:
In which a TSA officer plants something in a passenger’s bag as a “joke.”
Real funny, TSA. Damn straight that behavior was “inappropriate and unprofessional.”
I work at that airport, and I am continually being embarrassed by the behavior of some of our TSOs. This is also the airport that detained a kid for 36 hours on his way back from a study abroad in Jordan (full disclosure: I...
“Take, for instance, his point that segregation’s purpose wasn’t just to keep...”
– Dr. King, Forgotten Radical | The American Prospect
forget all the “what would Dr. King say about Haiti, about Gaza, about Obama,” this is probably what he’d say about the teabaggers.
(via champagnecandy)
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abbyjean:
sexartandpolitics:
I can accept that anything that comes out of Congress will be friendly to corporations and rich people. My expectations for my government are more incremental than they were a year ago. Sure, I would like to see what we’ve got going on now replaced by something that accounts for rich people having rich children and powerful people having powerful children. But I...
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“So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs. … We...”
– Bill O’Reilly, via Tapped.
i dunno, bill, maybe we’re becoming less oppressive and discriminatory? perhaps this is a change that should be embraced and encouraged, rather than mourned? unless you view it as having lost some of the white privilege that should rightfully be yours by no merit other...
