February 2012
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Anonymous asked: How was Nothing, Arizona?
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“How did American conservatism end up so detached from, indeed at odds with,...”
– Krugman, NYT (via magnificentruin)
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is this the proper place / for oppositional...
I feel like it’s a matter of economics this rotgut wine and bad lilt it takes an industry of experts, spreaders their dual-purpose for tillage and for trade packing on the path carting on the plain who will account for the kingdom is interested…
(By Alli Warren, via Lana Turner)
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January 2012
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US elections: no matter who you vote for, money... →
The issue here is not class envy, hating rich people because they are rich, but class interests – cementing the advantages of the privileged over the rest. The problem is not personal, it’s systemic. In the current climate, it means a group of wealthy people in business will decide which wealthy people in Congress they would like to tell poor people what they can’t have because times...
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
The ONLY day where: Yo MTV Raps was on air It was a clear and smogless day Beepers were commercially sold Lakers beat the SuperSonics and Ice Cube had no events to attend was… JANUARY 20 1992 National Good Day Day
Oh shit. January 20, 2012! I missed it.
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This Seems Profound, But Really, We Have Three...
Today I stepped outside my office, carrying a pile of reports and briefings to be filed away. I looked to my left, and then my right, and then asked: “Which way is Africa?”
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December 2011
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Václav Havel, 1936 - 2011
“My dear fellow citizens,
For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us.
I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too,...
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The Body On The Beach →
“Cleland discovered a small pocket sewn into the waistband of the dead man’s trousers… Inside, tightly rolled, was a minute scrap of paper, which, opened up, proved to contain two words, typeset in an elaborate printed script. The phrase read ‘Tamám Shud.’”
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“If I were going to pit a city ordinance against human rights, I would always...”
– Frank La Rue, U.N. “special rapporteur” for the protection of free expression “U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn’t Protecting Occupy Protesters’ Rights” HuffPost 12/2/11
November 2011
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“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table, and listen. Do...”
– Kafka
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“One of the great social pleasures in my life has been to leave gatherings or...”
– What I Didn’t Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook
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On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black...
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The Gay Nabokov →
According to her, Sergei was “the nicest of all the Nabokovs … a sweet, funny man … much nicer, much more dependable and much funnier than all the rest of them.”
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MY FEMINISM WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE... →
For Kaash and Syeda, I guess?
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Prufrock revisited →
(There’s supposed to be an image here, but never mind, click the link and see it there.)