January 2012
4 posts
“I mean, seriously, if “raising important issues” is all it takes to get some...”
– Tim Wise » Of Broken Clocks, Presidential Candidates, and the Confusion of Certain White Liberals
Watchragesararage:
rand0mflora:
spiffypop:
monkeyaround92:
ofunicorndust:
isagrimorie:
falulatonks:
the casts of Parks and Recreation and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
6bee - We’re Not Gonna Take It
Most fun I’ve ever seen!
Reblogging this because it’s super delightful.
The moment when you realize that you really want Jimmy Fallon to be New Directions’ new director.
reasons I...
RHPolitics: white people in denial about blatant... →
talldarkbishoujo:
At the beginning of the current WoW expansion, monkeys were added to the classes of animals the Hunter class could tame and use for combat pets. I am not exaggerating when I say that I was putting in report tickets near daily, I saw so many Hunters running around with…
December 2011
12 posts
“The reason the philosopher can be compared with the poet is that both are...”
– Thomas Aquinas in Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, quoted by Josef Pieper, who adds:
And because of their common power to disturb and transcend, all these basic behavioral patterns of the human being have a natural connection among themselves: the philosophical act, the religious act, the...
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“Mischaracterized as a simple woman who chose not to stand because she had tired...”
– Rosa Parks, one of the most familiar yet least known civil rights icons (via robot-heart-politics)
November 2011
11 posts
Stephen Colbert Interview - Montclair Kimberley... →
“The week’s events have been extremely upsetting and culminated with an email...”
– Amy Harris, photographer pressing charges against OFWGKTA’s Left Brain for a physical altercation.
I have just a few thoughts on this, which is of course a really up in the air, facts unknown type of thing. But, dating and living with someone who gets death threats, and threats of violence and...
October 2011
11 posts
“The roots of left colorblindness lie in the white democracy and the distorted...”
– Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: Whiteness and the 99% | Bring the Ruckus
“Firstly, the word Occupy has understandably ignited criticism from Indigenous...”
– A Letter To The Occupy Together Movement | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
“So in 2005, Brackett and his team at the Health, Emotion, and Behavior Lab at...”
– Reading, Writing, Empathy: The Rise of ‘Social Emotional Learning’ - Education - GOOD
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September 2011
18 posts
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Jon Stewart Profile - Jon Stewart and the Burden... →
greaterthanlapsed:
This is a must-read.
“Kindness” covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I...”
– Roger Ebert - I do not fear death - Memoirs - Salon.com
“Every instance of democracy presented in Star Wars is rife with either...”
– “Jar Jar Binks is George Lucas’s critique of democracy.” Discuss. | Camels With Hammers
This may be the best thing I’ve read all day week.
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“[TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE] As we circle Union Square, about twenty NYPD...”
– JEANNE MANSFIELD, “Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protest,” in the Boston Review.
Jesus H. Christ.
(via inothernews)
“And once again, employees who have had more opportunity (and race, gender and...”
– Tim Wise » Getting What We Deserve? Wealth, Race and Entitlement in America
Here it is! the music video for my song... →
astronautalis:
In one day, Stuey Kuberick (the video’s director) and i, walked from the east end Vancouver, through downtown, across the lions bridge to the beach. i begged for change the whole way…and in the end, we made a handful of loonies and this music video. i hope you enjoy it. PLEASE, if you like the video, REBLOG THIS! you are my advertising campaign.
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[TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE]
Original title: PEACEFUL FEMALE PROTESTORS PENNED IN THE STREET AND MACED!
peoplesmovement:
While on a peaceful march near Union Square in downtown Manhattan, multiple female protestors were penned up in the street by orange mesh baricade, then maliciously maced. The women were peaceful and unarmed. They were secured by barricade with an overwhelming police presence. And they were then sprayed...
“To disable M-PMV’s protease, we need to know exactly what it looks like. Like...”
– Computer gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
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Luap Sieg: (1:05:38 AM) is he ok?
ashly3102: (1:06:09 AM) i suppose
ashly3102: (1:06:13 AM) he just told me he had backstreet boy hair
Luap Sieg: (1:06:21 AM) its definitely brain cancer