February 2011
January 2011
What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt →
kateoplis:
The uprising in Egypt, although united around the nearly universal desire to rid the country of the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, also presages the inevitable shift within the Arab world away from secular regimes toward an embrace of Islamic rule. Don’t be fooled by the glib sloganeering about democracy or the facile reporting by Western reporters-few of whom speak Arabic or have...
Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying... →
Noted speed freak, serial-killer fangirl, and Tea Party hero Ayn Rand was also a kleptoparasite, sneakily gobbling up taxpayer funds under an assumed name [note: it might have been her legal name] to pay for her medical treatments after she got lung cancer.
“I have noticed that even people who think everything is predestined and that we...”
– Stephen Hawking
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my...”
– Arthur Rimbaud
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not live...”
– Audre Lorde
WatchBest way to watch the State of the Union - w/ embedded information.
Dow Tops 12,000 For First Time Since June 2008 →
To be recovering from the deepest recession in the history of the US in only two years is kind of miraculous. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, ‘stimulus FAILED’ Obama haters.
“I sent this girl a picture of my dick. I don’t know what is with females, but...”
– Henry VIII of England
“What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know...”
– Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon
Anne Hathaway to play Selina Kyle in next Batman →
herochan:
Batman has found a nemesis for his next cinematic adventure – and it looks like a love interest, too. On Wednesday, Warner Brothers Pictures announced the first new cast members for “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third Batman movie to be directed by Christopher Nolan, the “Inception” and “Memento” filmmaker. Joining Christian Bale, who returns as Batman and his daytime alter ego, Bruce...
Anne Hathaway to play Selina Kyle in next Batman →
herochan:
Batman has found a nemesis for his next cinematic adventure – and it looks like a love interest, too. On Wednesday, Warner Brothers Pictures announced the first new cast members for “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third Batman movie to be directed by Christopher Nolan, the “Inception” and “Memento” filmmaker. Joining Christian Bale, who returns as Batman and his daytime alter ego, Bruce...
“Now it would seem, as a white man, I’m not personally injured by the failure of...”
– How the Bechdel Test could save the Oscars
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely...”
– Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
To love in this way
We could not follow that path to the American dream. Because we could not really believe that Chua’s kind of gamble pays off, either way. Because we see this game for what it is: a game that requires tremendous loss.
We could not ask ourselves to die. We could not discipline ourselves into what is necessary to “succeed” in this world. And we could not ask others to die, their bodies –...
“Be who your ancestors fought for you to be, and beyond.”
Group decides it's OK to use hormones and surgery... →
stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:
You think I am making this one up, but I am not.
As a class bastard, this does not surprise me one whit.
I am too tired at the moment to provide full details on the case where a transracially adopted child was injected with these hormones and severely malnourished, while his biological siblings (adopted to the same household) were also malnourished and beaten....
“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and...”
– Albert Camus
ASSASSINS 4 LIFE. \m/
