February 2011
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Just another regular person
obviously hatin’
on my spectacular ass.
January 2011
“Never beg a person for something that someone else is willing to give you.”
– Greg F. (via agape-caesar)
When the politically fueled murder of a 9-year-old... →
jonathan-cunningham:
idonteverwanna:
Wow.
“As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, “Please don’t shoot me.”
But they did — in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia’s father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too had been killed in the gunfire.”
...
“What we want is transparent government, not transparent people.”
– Julian Assange destroys Steve Kroft again and again. I’d love to see the whole unedited interview. (via firelily)
“What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see or take into my body as...”
– Bill Hicks (via leftish)
“Egypt doesn’t have control of its people the way we do here.”
– Joe Biden, today on MSNBC
This wasn’t the thing to say.
(via thecookieateu)
O so here you do have the way to do the huh on hah huh?
:| (scary)
That’s really fucking gross, Biden.
I just got chills up and down my spine.
(via allthebloodinmyveins)
of course he said that shit. and even...
“When I was little, I thought that heaven was a gigantic library where you could...”
– Esprit d’Escalier
I love this idea….
(via growingupindie)
New Rule: Americans Must Realize What Makes NFL... →
Democrats don’t want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they’d like it if some kids didn’t have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood while others get to go to a great school and their Dad gets them into Harvard. Because when that happens “achieving the American dream” is easy for some, and just a fantasy for others.
That’s why the NFL runs itself in a way that would...
I never knew why Whoopi Goldberg was missing her...
shampainwishes:
Like I’d assume it was something so common like a cancer treatment or something but I look on top of her head & remember that chemo doesn’t leave locks those thick.
I'm going back to the Buddhist Temple again
and I find the meditating keeps me calm and clears my head, and the chanting around me is soothing as well.
When I tell people I’ve been, the more close-minded folks are pretty uneasy about it; telling me prayer is better, then citing whatever religious text they go by,
Which I think is baffling and interesting at the same time.
But I find that it’s most always Christians that shun...
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty...”
– John Berger (via rossencraft)
Just because you're not yelling or being "mean"
doesn’t mean you’re not being hurtful. There are other ways to hurt people’s feelings.
“I didn’t lie though,” or “I’m just being honest”
doesn’t take anything from the fact that you’re being an asshole either…
“Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 + 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else...”
– George Orwell 1984
La Petite Féministe Anglaise: You know what? We DO... →
et-tu-dionysus:
[TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE/RAPE CULTURE/VICTIM-BLAMING] Our society has this idea that rape is what happens when a young beautiful virgin woman walks through an bad neighborhood at night and is kidnapped and raped by an ethic gang-member.
If you’re married it isn’t really…
“Aljazeera English reports that youth are linking arms, forming a human shield...”
– (via yagazieemezi)
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via petitefeministe)
“I think it’s curious to know the number of men who are up in arms about the fact...”
– Sister Toldja (via thefeeloffree)
“Slut-bashing is a cheap and easy way to feel powerful. If you feel insecure or...”
– Leora Tanenbaum (via dr-clear-heels)
Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: The House GOP's Plan... →
rabbleprochoice:
corruptpolitics:
Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for…
“Everything ██ is █████ ████ ████ fine ███ █ ████ love. ████ █████ the ███ Egypt...”
– (via yagazieemezi)
“The Egyptian people will take care of themselves. The Egyptian people will be...”
– Statement by Nobel laureate MOHAMMED ELBARADEI, the Egyptian opposition leader who joined in the protests in Cairo and was doused with water cannon before being placed under house arrest.
(via the New York Times)
If people really paid attention
they’d realize how sucky we’re living out here.
You shouldn’t be indifferent to what’s going on in Egypt because it’s so far away, It affects you.
And if you think that your internet getting cut off wouldn’t be a big deal, then you probably don’t deserve the right to it anyway.
People are so cavalier about these rights we’re supposed to have...
Read, Copy, Repeat: Things a Rape Victim Shouldn't... →
rabbleprochoice:
[TRIGGER WARNING for rape and self-harm]
thingsmostgrey:
Throw herself down the stairs to avoid carrying the resultant pregnancy to term.
“You will see me on the news.” Stella* said with complete seriousness. “I’ll throw myself down the stairs. I’ll do what it…
“I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like...”
– Sylvia Pankhurst (via petitefeministe)
Reuters reports that mobile service providers have... →
NPR reporting that Mohammed elBaradei, who...
REPORT: Internet down in Syria →
the-madame-hatter:
malefeministandthenakedsamba:
thegreatpumpkin:
verbalresistance:
all across the Arab world, authoritarian regimes are trembling in their boots.
This is incredible.
The world is on fire.
Holy shit.
