April 2012
30 posts
Sound Opinions →
Rachel Maddow / War On Women →
Unlike all my liberal friends, I’m not goofy in love with Rachel Maddow. But this should be good.
Frank Zappa / Censorship / Crossfire →
Social Media / Antisocial Behavior →
The Origin of Marriage / the Evolution of Divorce →
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
Watchjennyowenyoungs:
“Born To Lose.” Track 5 from AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT.
Get the song, get the album: iTunes / bandcamp / physical
“There’ll be no good-byes, boy, that boat won’t slow for you / You tried and...”
– Jenny Owen Youngs
http://gawker.com/5903825/this-cover-of-radioheads-... →
New year. New trip. /// New game. New rules.
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Twits I never twitted
“The voice in your head that says you can’t do this IS A LIAR.” True!
Rising. From the. Ashes. Of that flag.
THERE ARE HANDS THAT HOLD NOTHING BUT FIRE.
I just heard a track by Wild Belle that sounds like MIA covering The Bird & the Bee. Try to wrap your head around that!
@fiona_robyn: to learn the meaning of the word ‘midrash’ I first had to discover the...
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RT @BoingBoing: Creating graphics for the Yellow Pages, 1970s-style
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RT @Glinner: This is the best thing I’ve seen this year. John Cleese on creativity. (via @doctorow)
http://t.co/B6QJvK9E →
RT @MotherJones: More birds are singing around Chernobyl. And that’s a creepy thing:
http://t.co/3xXlQLFZ →
RT @NashvilleScene: Cool visualization of surnames from National Geographic
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RT @MapleLeafAce: @gargening_101: Free Seed Starting Calculator - Vegetable Gardening: Helping you know when to plant.
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RT @qikipedia: US Celebrities read (negative) Tweets about themselves. Some (bleeped) language as you might imagine!
“I’d feel real trapped in this life right now, if I didn’t know I...”
– Hunter S Thompson
I aim to always think, “Thank you. That is enough.”
“Shame that it’s not enough. Shame that it is a shame.”
– Townes Van Zandt
“The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.”
– from Aleph, by Paulo Coelho
You’re kidding, right? It’s that clear?
I read this shortly after an experience in meditation, where I sensed fire in my hands.. but it was a different sensation in each hand. In one was heat, and the other was light.
“People on the internet, bloggers and such, falsely attribute quotes to me very...”
– Rick Santorum
ohbehold:
Alina Simone’s version of “Oops I Did...
“If you can’t manage to force your own presumably democratic governments to...”
– My Ishmael
The Handmaid's Tale, page one
“There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without shape or name.”
Don’t I know that.
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what...”
– Barbara Kingsolver
On The Bro'd: 196 - Amateur Law and Order Shit →
onthebrod:
Some dickhole cop got all up in Dean’s face; he was totally jealous of what an awesome dude he was. The dickhole’s buddy interrogated me and Marylou. They were trying to bust Marylou for underage drinking, ‘cause she totally reeked of booze and looked young as fuck. But she had a real solid fake…
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