February 2012
5 posts
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
January 2012
9 posts
Eat More Broccoli: 50 Clean Eating Super Foods →
eatmorebroccoli:
50 Clean Eating Super Foods
APPLES “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. We’ve all heard it, what does that mean exactly? Apples are fantastic for your heart as well as for keeping your bowel movements regular. And lets face it. If things are “moving” along smoothly, many diseases are far…
very useful information!
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Operation Rescue launches database of abortion... →
stfuconservatives:
iamateenagefeminist:
the-womanifesto:
unknowablewoman:
To recap:
Operation Rescue is an anti-choice group with terrorist ties. Period.
Their senior policy adviser is a convicted clinic bomber.
The man who murdered Dr. Tiller had their phone number in his car.
And now, this. This. I want to cry. I probably will, actually. And that’s what they want, I’m sure. Well,...
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what the chuck
I am so lost. What is going on on GG? Did I miss an episode?
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...”
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (via cultureofresistance)
My Brain Is Trying To Kill Me.: Sent to tumblr: →
stfuconfederates:
icingonthekaek:
I’m about to write an post, as well as a guest post to a well-known external blog about this, and if need be, I will submit it to my local news organization for review, and I need for you to understand that before I proceed. This is not something you…
reblog.
December 2011
4 posts
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“We journalists are probably too bleary-eyed after a sleepless night to...”
– In an effort to stabilise the euro zone, France, Germany and 21 other countries have decided to draft their own treaty to impose more central control over national budgets. Britain and three others have decided to stay out. But whether the agreement does anything to stabilise the euro is moot....
rest
stick shoes stuck in cemetery dirt punching aeration holes in the grass I wobble watching the sun sink, shovels clink turn them upside down to show you mean it, that each scoop (earth perched on the back of the tool) is imbued with intention, so heavy, like the casket that wouldn’t drop you held on to the above-ground, to the place where you could give… but this is the final donation....
November 2011
14 posts
"...I would miss you more if you were thinner"
trigger warning for ednos
so it comes down to this you’ve lied about it being “ok” my 175 lb, 5’9” self being “ok” you lied about loving my body no wait, no you didn’t really lie it’s fine now really, just…in the future…you wonder you don’t like yourself, you know that it isn’t fair that gender roles make it so...
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“Harvard protesters set up their tent city a week after a student walk-out of...”
– Occupy Wall Street Protesters Shifting to College Campuses, from OccupyHarvard. [NY Times]
(via thenoobyorker)
Downlo: Penn State and Berkeley: A Tale of Two... →
On the campus of Penn State University in State College Pennsylvania, several hundred students rioted in anger after the firing of legendary 84-year-old head football coach Joe Paterno. At the University of California at Berkeley, 1,000 students, part of the Occupy USA movement, attempted to…
dear grampy
There you are, Grampy.
It’s been a while since I have seen you
but I have no doubt that you recognize me
by my mother’s eyes.
Today, instead of doing
what I always did
(I thought, for you)
I lit a candle, sat quietly
surrounded it with
those sea-stones that once I’m sure our feet touched,
walking along a cobbled beach,
faces to the gale
a pink raincoat and my...
Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know... →
But as the years passed, old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig had lied, that he himself had fought for a world that betrayed him, that 20,000 British dead on the first day of the Somme – which he mercifully avoided because his first regiment, the Cheshires, sent him to Dublin and Cork to deal with another 1916 “problem” – was a trashing of...
“Every time the pro-occupation minority, here and in the Diaspora, defines the...”
– Iran Wins [Haaretz]
Whoa.
(via thenoobyorker)
come on up to the house: pyotra: “The roots of... →
pyotra:
“The roots of left colorblindness lie in the white democracy and the distorted mindset it creates. It encourages whites to think that their issues are “universal” while those of people of color are “specific.” But that is exactly backwards. Anyone in the occupy movement who has been…
truth.
on comedy
The things that I find the funniest are generally quite absurd. or perhaps not absurd but just, I suppose they prod at the things that we take for granted as normal to expose how ridiculous they are.
I wonder if I could successfully write some sort of stand-up routine that poked fun at my own existence, because more and more it is seeming incredibly absurd. my adventure in the kitchen last night...
what is it when
the safe place becomes terrible
i become irritable
and there is no where left to turn but work?
October 2011
13 posts
“Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a...”
– Mary E. Frye
“Before gas goes into a crowd shield bearers have to be making no progress moving...”
– Marine Says Oakland Used Crowd Control Methods That Are Prohibited In War Zones (via thepolitics)
The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More... →
gravewisdom:
JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States. JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go on food stamps, the more profits JP Morgan makes. Yes, you read that correctly. When the number of...
Please take a moment to help, don't just scroll... →
chennnie:
((Click here for more details.)) On October 3rd, 2011, 19 year old Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in his barracks from a gunshot wound to the head while stationed in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. He died supporting Operation Enduring freedom, but the circumstances of…
signal boost.
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The Occupy Wall Street image that marks the end of... →
In this photograph we see the end of that consensual age, which turns out to have lasted just 20 years, when the free market was essentially beyond criticism. The very use of the word “capitalism” seemed corny a decade ago. What was the point of applying such a term to a way of life that seemed to have no outside to it? Now it is once again a word to hurl as abuse, as it was in...
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while... →
7. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.
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thoughts on Occupy Toronto
In link that I posted yesterday, Jessica Yee correctly accuses Occupy Wall St. of failing to recognise the fact that Wall St., New York City, the surrounding environs and in fact the whole of the United States (and Canada, for that matter) are already occupied…have been occupied for five-hundred years. This occupation has been normalised among the settlers (not unlike in any other occupied...
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Jessica Yee does it again →
The “OCCUPY WALL STREET” slogan has gone viral and international now. From the protests on the streets of WALL STREET in the name of “ending capitalism” – organizers, protestors, and activists have been encouraged to “occupy” different places that symbolize greed and power. There’s just one problem: THE UNITED STATES IS ALREADY BEING OCCUPIED. THIS IS INDIGENOUS LAND. And it’s been occupied...
September 2011
14 posts
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PA President Mahmoud Abbas' speech to the U.N.... →
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Troy Davis' case was not unusual. →
mixedbyziggy:
Reggie Clemons could be the next Troy Davis.
From http://www.justiceforreggie.com:
In 1991, two young women went missing after visiting the abandoned Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis Missouri — a popular hang-out with local teens — with their cousin. The cousin…
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“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,”
– - Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), in an interview on MSNBC, on why as a small business owner he can’t afford a tax increase. (via wtfwhiteprivilege)
That’s cool. I just have an overdrawn bank account.
(via custerdiedforyoursins)