February 2012
8 posts
“There is one bit of advice given to us by the ancient heathen Greeks, and by the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via azspot
)
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam?: From Matters... →
ourcatastrophe:
Wars. So many wars. Wars outside and wars inside. Cultural wars, science wars, and wars against terrorists. Wars against poverty and wars against the poor. Wars against ignorance and wars out of ignorance. My question is simple: Should we be at war, too, we, the scholars, the intellectuals? Is it really our duty to add fresh ruins to fields of ruins? Is it really the task of the...
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the...
“There is a dangerous myth going around this country that sexism doesn’t exist...”
– Margaret Cho (via fuckyeahfeministartandliterature)
“It is important to sit with the clear intention to be present. At the same time,...”
– Narayan Liebenson Grady (via lazyyogi)
“The reality of what women, even feminists, find pleasurable is not always...”
– Feminist Porn: Sex, Consent, and Getting Off (via butchrag)
Not super into fawning over the 2G feminists as per the rest of this article, but this particular quote highlights a nice point
(via youdontlooklikeafeminist)
January 2012
35 posts
the final problem: professional-cockblocker: SOPA... →
professional-cockblocker:
SOPA EMERGENCY LIST.
meghanalefae:
aprilstar-dance:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org...
“If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy...”
– Michael J. Tucker (via princesssimon
)
Flapjack State: anti-propaganda: Jesus ‘healed... →
anti-propaganda:
Jesus ‘healed using cannabis’
‘Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry…
“even in friendly conversation
I get the bell hooks-ian urge
to kill...”
– Staceyann Chin- All Oppression is Connected (via brazenbitch)
i had some students of mine watch this video and take notes about a year ago. they wrote some really awesome notes on this piece. one student forgot their paper in a common area break room and an employee found it and wrote really awful...
“(TW: rape, rape apology, victim blaming)
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I knew I hadn’t committed any...”
– The Accidental Rapist — The Good Men Project
Hugo Schwyzer, folks. This is an essay in which a man tells his readers about how he willfully and repeatedly disregarded his partner’s negative responses to his sexual advances, and then insists that she played an equal part in the situation because she...
US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to... →
jonathan-cunningham:
The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars, according to information obtained and released by the organization WikiLeaks. Nations like France, which have moved to ban one of Monsanto’s GM corn varieties, were requested to be ‘penalized’ by the United States for opposing Monsanto and...
“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native...”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via pupunahsh)
truth! he was a real fan of Andrew Jackson and his tactics too
(via adailyriot)
“Anarchism covers lots of different things— If there’s one leading principle...”
– Noam Chomsky (via omchomsky
)
Dionysus Follies: Marry the Night →
dionysusfollies:
“When I look back on my life, it’s not that I don’t want to see things exactly as they happen, it’s just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully, the lie of it all is much more honest, because I invented it. Clinical psychology arguably tells us that trauma is the…
“One of the more delusional aspects of capitalism is the idea that if one pursues...”
– Doug Harvey (via cultureofresistance
)
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” (via omchomsky
)
“You hear this all the time: we’re drowning in the digital deluge. We’re up to...”
– BOMB Magazine: Kenneth Goldsmith by Marcus Boon (via notational
)I’m fine with all this joyous plurality up to a point but “…this change in environment; the material with which you’re working is running the entire world…” is a tad naive - isn’t language just a...
“What’s free is the absolute weapon against the dictatorship of
profit. In...”
– Elderly Situationist enjoys baffling interviewer | Beyond The Beyond (via notational
)
body swap comedy watchin: It's a Boy Girl Thing.
silentpunk:
Observation: He first realises he is in the girl’s body because he has ‘tits’… but her tits are actually smaller than his heaving ‘pecs’.
It’s a bad film, anyways.
“Consider next libertarian attitudes toward liberal institutions affording equal...”
– Samuel Freeman, Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism Is Not a Liberal View (2002), pg. 135-6
Currently relevant to my dashboard
(via mohandasgandhi)
““I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s...”
– -Rick Santorum (via brainguts)
That’s funny, because the people who benefit most from welfare programs are white people.
Among the poorest of the poor—single mothers, living below the poverty line with minor children to support 39.7 percent of AFDC clients are Black single mothers and 38.1...
“The question of repetition is very important. It is important because there is...”
– —Gertrude Stein cf. the science of linguistics cf. “A failure is a project that doesn’t work, an initiative that teaches you something at the same time the outcome doesn’t move you directly closer to your goal. A mistake is either a failure repeated, doing something for the second time when you...
December 2011
14 posts
silentpunk: jtwigg365: What Punk Rock Taught Me... →
jtwigg365:
What Punk Rock Taught Me About Masculinity
lionza:
“At the same time, the scene told me a lot about what was considered appropriate male behavior. We were supposed to slam dance, to run wildly into people (all people) without consideration, it was OK to be aggressive in…
