MILK + HONEY

It's a Netflix night. Again.

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:23:56 -0600

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 cancer is a form of..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:58:35 -0600

“…I think that the modern supranational corporation is more like a cancer. A cancer is a form of hypertrophied growth that spreads across and throughout the host organism, promoting its own essentially inanimate ends, while killing the host. Isn’t that what the modern supranationals are doing? Not that their looting managements are suffering, but many in the host countries are being left behind.”

- Corporations: virus or cancer? (via azspot)

"When you talk about a revolution most people think ‘violence’ without realizing that the real..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:37:13 -0600

“When you talk about a revolution most people think ‘violence’ without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving not in the way that you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way that this society is organized… you have to expect things like that as reactions.”

- 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.

paxmachina: Jasso - Jedi Zapata (Chicago) We love us some...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:14:01 -0600

paxmachina:

Jasso - Jedi Zapata (Chicago)

We love us some Zapata in The Chi.

bitchville: The idea is that the home can easily be taken...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:24:56 -0600

bitchville:

The idea is that the home can easily be taken apart, transported, and quickly rebuilt on a new site - essentially making it a nomadic home. Above, are images of the first prototype - which is currently located 1200 metres above sea level in Ritten, Italy.

Fincube by http://www.aisslinger.de/

Awesome.

lucifelle: Figure 2 (p17). “With the passage of ages and by...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:10:29 -0600

lucifelle:

Figure 2 (p17).

“With the passage of ages and by her will, eventually a spark of life was formed within her core, represented by a dot (Fig. 2). Tantric sages called this spark the bindu, and one of the Goddess’s titles was Bindumati, Mother of the Bindu. Among Cabalists it became Bina, the Womb of Earth” (p17).

blurtumblur: So I checked my Twitter and found that the top...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:10:04 -0600

blurtumblur:

So I checked my Twitter and found that the top three latest Tweets were from the Blur boys. Absolutely EPIC. :-)

me: wow i like this person a lot

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:21:48 -0600

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

thesmithian: “Hoover saw the civil rights movement from the...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:33:42 -0600

thesmithian:

“Hoover saw the civil rights movement from the 1950s onward and the anti-war movement from the 1960s onward, as presenting the greatest threats to the stability of the American government since the Civil War,” says [the author] in particular Martin Luther King [Jr.] was an enemy…” Hoover was intent on planting bugs around civil rights leaders—including King—because he thought communists had infiltrated the civil rights movement…Hoover had his intelligence chief bug King’s bedroom, and then sent the civil rights leader a copy of the sex recordings his intelligence chief had taken of King—along with an anonymous letter from the FBI.

more.

lienatik: Blur - Under The Westway (live for Warchild, 19...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:29:38 -0600

lienatik:

Blur - Under The Westway (live for Warchild, 19 February 2012)

New song. All credits for recording and sending it to me go to Doyle

Download

BLOODY BRILLIANT.

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:21:56 -0600

The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal:

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 where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they’ll insist that it does.

That’s new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.

That year, Christianity Today — edited by Harold Lindsell, champion of “inerrancy” and author of The Battle for the Bible — published a special issue devoted to the topics of contraception and abortion. That issue included many articles that today would get their authors, editors — probably even their readers — fired from almost any evangelical institution. For example, one article by a professor from Dallas Theological Seminary criticized the Roman Catholic position on abortion as unbiblical. Jonathan Dudley quotes from the article in his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics. Keep in mind that this is from a conservative evangelical seminary professor, writing in Billy Graham’s magazine for editor Harold Lindsell:

God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: “If a man kills any human life he will be put to death” (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. … Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.

Christianity Today would not publish that article in 2012. They might not even let you write that in comments on their website. If you applied for a job in 2012 with Christianity Today or Dallas Theological Seminary and they found out that you had written something like that, ever, you would not be hired.

At some point between 1968 and 2012, the Bible began to say something different. That’s interesting.

Well, whadaya know.

jwilliamwashington: “We have this fantasy that our interests...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:44:18 -0600

jwilliamwashington:

“We have this fantasy that our interests and interests of the super rich are the same. Like somehow the rich will eventually get so full that they’ll explode and the candy will rain down the rest of us. Like there’s some kind of pinata of benevolence. But here’s the thing about a pinata: it doesn’t open on it’s own. You have to beat it with a stick.” - Bill Maher

I’ve got a stick.

feministhistorian: stfuhatemongers: A not so anonymous screen...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:09:06 -0600

feministhistorian:

stfuhatemongers:

A not so anonymous screen shot of the famous rant about women being biased about birth control.
Enjoy!

“The topic of birth control is not about women’s rights. It’s more about the preborn baby’s rights to live than about the women’s right to choose for the baby. Women shouldn’t even be part of the discussion as they have a prejuced, selfish view against the baby growing with her.”

I have no clue what prejuced is…

"My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less..."

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:35:06 -0600

“My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway. My husband had told them exactly what my regular doctor said, and the ER doctor had already warned us what would have to happen. Yet none of this mattered when confronted by the idea that no one needs an abortion. You shouldn’t need to know the details of why a [person] aborts to trust [them] to make the best decision for herself. I don’t regret my abortion, but I would also never use my situation to suggest that the only time another [person]should have the procedure is when [their] life is at stake. After my family found out I’d had an abortion, I got a phone call from a cousin who felt the need to tell me I was wrong to have interfered with God’s plan. And in that moment I understood exactly what kind of people judge a [person’s] reproductive choices.”

- 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 as a box of frogs...."

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:34:17 -0600

“If I was gonna make a record, it would be with Damon. For a start, he’s as mad as a box of frogs. Number two, he’d get loads of hip-hop dudes working on it, which itself would be f***in mental. And number three? It would be a better record.”

- Noel Gallagher via Swallows In The Heatwave (via fuckyeahblur)

Awwww.

bitchville: From the Artist: “A series that involves recording...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:29:50 -0600

bitchville:

From the Artist: “A series that involves recording a location, to show the passing of time in a montage style. There is a sense of intimate intricacy of how time moves, and how people, albeit in a different time, are actually closer to one another and traveling in the same shared space. I’ve always been intrigued by the constant subtle changes in my urban environment. Every subtle shift affects my feelings and thoughts, hence my images respond acutely as a poetic reflection of myself in this environment. Working on this series, I explore how time moves in this seemingly static urban space. The people become the moving energy flowing through this space, marking the changes, forming the time.

These images also explore my fascination that there are probably many time dimensions in this universe. We may have a ‘life’ that exists similarly on a different path, one minute before or after the one we’re living now. We merely just exist in this current dimension, and sometimes when time paths collide, we have déjà vu experience.’

A Montage of Time in New York by http://www.johnclang.com/

"In Missouri, payday lenders can legally charge up to $75 on every $100 borrowed, making the final..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:29:31 -0600

“In Missouri, payday lenders can legally charge up to $75 on every $100 borrowed, making the final interest rates on rollovers and multiple loans as high as 1,995 percent.”

- Payday Lenders Enslave Poor in Debt Cycle (via azspot)
Ain’t that some shit.

Life, Liberty and Property: Slavery and the Founding of America

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:23:50 -0600

Life, Liberty and Property: Slavery and the Founding of America:

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 influenced by the existence of slavery. Through the actions of our early founders, slavery became not only an institution but also a culture, fully protected by law. It is no wonder that slavery, and all the debates that went with it, would continue to shape American history and eventually contribute to our bloodiest war ever: The Civil War.

1st album on repeat all week. soooo good.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:46:46 -0600

1st album on repeat all week. soooo good.

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be...."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:09:48 -0600

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pkam)
WORD.