December 2011
68 posts
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“Maybe 2012 will be the year that voters and political leaders finally start...”
– The Voices of Poverty (via azspot)
THIS.
“… he does not fulfil himself in his work but denies himself, has a feeling of...”
– Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (via hollovv)
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“When I was 18 I wanted to fuck on the floor and break shit. When I was 25 I...”
– Sylvia Plath (via brittan-ann)
Yup.
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2008: Wow, I was so stupid last year.
2009: Wow, I was so stupid last year.
2010: Wow, I was so stupid last year.
2011: Wow, I was so stupid last year.
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath (via ceedling)
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“LATELY
More important
than breakfast
is waking up next to someone
and...”
– Dallas Clayton (via yimmyayo)
“Some people protest carrying signs. Some people protest by making activist...”
– –Kathleen Hanna (via lookoutsideyourself)
Goodness… I love this womyn.
(via ladyatheist)
TRUTH.
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“Female horniness in the popular imagination is rare. Admittedly our idea of male...”
– The Pervocracy: From slutty to horny. (via sexisnottheenemy)
Truth. Just wanna get my grind on.
“Yes, Anais, I was thinking how I could betray you, but I can’t. I want you. I...”
– Henry Miller to Anais Nin. (via bomboncito)
Yup.
U.S. News - 'Dismal' prospects: 1 in 2 Americans... →
zainyk:
WASHINGTON - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.
The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment stays high and the government’s safety net frays. The new numbers follow years of stagnating wages for the middle class...
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Watching "Live Forever"
For the umpteenth time. Suddenly I remember how good it is to be alive.
“The obligation to provide unemployment benefits, that is to say, the duty to...”
– Pope John Paul II (via azspot)
“I got a real problem with the mandated drug testing for unemployment insurance....”
– Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), on GOP requirements to pass a payroll tax cut (via liberalsarecool)
THIS.
The Radical Linguist Noam Chomsky →
youmightfindyourself:
For centuries experts held that every language is unique. Then one day in 1956, Noam Chomsky, a young linguistics professor, gave a legendary presentation at the Symposium on Information Theory at MIT. He argued that every intelligible sentence conforms not only to the rules of its particular language but to a universal grammar that encompasses all languages. And rather...
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
...”
– Pastor Niemoller (via cultureofresistance)
this was one of those quotes that had a huge huge impact on me as a kid
(via youarenotyou)
What they ^ said.
17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
That’s what Angela Zhang was doing, and now, she’s $100,000 the richer for it. Also, she can say she’s created a nanoparticle, one that kills cancer, for what that’s worth (Spoiler: It’s worth a lot).
The $100,000 Zhang earned comes with first prize in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project, “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled...
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Super classy: The fedgov is willing to spend... →