March 2012
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February 2012
65 posts
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College at Risk →
It is a pipe dream to imagine that every student can have the sort of experience that our richest colleges, at their best, still provide. But it is a nightmare society that affords the chance to learn and grow only to the wealthy, brilliant, or lucky few. Many remarkable teachers in America’s community colleges, unsung private colleges, and underfinanced public colleges live this truth every...
“What do you listen to in the car?
“I get embarrassed by what I play in my...”
– Graham Coxon
Q (2012)
Graham loves Sham 69!
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It's a Netflix night. Again.
Now the only question is: B.A.P.S., X-Files or Wet, Hot, American Summer.
“…I think that the modern supranational corporation is more like a cancer. A...”
– Corporations: virus or cancer? (via azspot)
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“When you talk about a revolution most people think ‘violence’ without realizing...”
– Angela Davis, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (via younggiftedblaq)
Revolution is only a dirty word to those who wish to keep the status quo. Those of us who wish to change the world and make it a more just and beautiful place should embrace it and live it everyday in all the little ways.
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me: wow i like this person a lot
me: i should talk to this person
me: wow look!!!! a perfect chance to talk to this person i should totally take it
me: types out message
me: gets nervous
me: exits page
me: floats away from computer
me: drifts out window
me: is lifted up into space
me: orbits around earth
me: is incinerated by the sun
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on...
“My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my...”
– Mikki Kendall, who almost died because an ER doctor refused to perform an abortion that was needed to save her life. (via letterstomycountry)
corrected!
(via chauvinistsushi)
“If I was gonna make a record, it would be with Damon. For a start, he’s as mad...”
– Noel Gallagher via Swallows In The Heatwave (via fuckyeahblur)
Awwww.
“In Missouri, payday lenders can legally charge up to $75 on every $100 borrowed,...”
– Payday Lenders Enslave Poor in Debt Cycle (via azspot)
Ain’t that some shit.
Life, Liberty and Property: Slavery and the... →
Slavery was not only an institution protected by law in the early American republic, but it also became an institution that defined the early American republic. The complex and immoral debates that arose in defense of the institution helped to determine the actions of many Founding Fathers. The creation of the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Constitution were all...
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pkam)
WORD.
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“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet,...”
– Nigel Marsh (via azspot)
U.S. to pay immigrants $350K to settle immigration...
univisionnews:
The government has decided to settle with a group of 11 immigrants whose homes were raided in New Haven in 2007. (Flickr, lito)
By JUAN GASTELUM Channel: Immigration
In what is reportedly the biggest settlement of its kind, the government on Tuesday agreed to pay $350,000 in a civil lawsuit filed by 11 Latino immigrants that were involved in a series of immigration raids in...
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“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (via human-voices)
Fuck yeah, feminists!: Brilliant Democratic State... →
stfusexists:
Brilliant Democratic State Senator Tacks ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’ Clause to Oklahoma’s Personhood Bill
stfuhypocrisy:
Undaunted by the monumental failure of Personhood USA’s push to declare fertilized human eggs exactly the same as grown ass adults in Mississippi,…
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Gentrification
quelowat:
Taking over, block by block,
chipping away at the heart and soul of our neighborhoods.
Keep your fucking pub and give me back my chimi spot.
Take your organic market to midtown and give me back my supermercado.
I don’t want a fancy haircut in your overly priced salon,
I want a five dollar shape up son.
Our hood was “hip” before you showed up to fuck shit up.
You ain’t doing us a...
EXISTENTIAL ANGST GAME STRESSFUL:... →
withrevolutionarycries:
poemsofthedead:
Here’s something else that’s been tanning my hide lately.
milkeemountainmama:
greenbrowngirl:
ladyatheist:
Yes, Margaret Sanger was arguably a fucked up person. To be honest, “fucked up” is probably putting it lightly. That…
this is relevant v
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