December 2011
2 posts
I don’t know about you, but I’m concerned with what’s happening in this world....
– Waking Life (via likethesun)
Always.
When authorities fail to prosecute those who attack people for exercising their...
– Hillary Clinton, criticizing how Russian authorities have reacted to protesters.
How very appropriate, Mrs. Clinton. How about you redirect your words to the administration you serve?
A wild hypocrite appears!
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October 2011
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September 2011
12 posts
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…sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and...
– Noam Chomsky (via r-i-o-t)
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“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed...
– Will Durant, American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885-1981), Caesar and Christ, Epilogue, p. 665 (1944)
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Neal Gabler: ‘We are living in a post ideas world where bold ideas are almost...
– Neal Gabler, a professor, journalist, author, film critic and political commentator, ☞ The Elusive Big Idea - ‘We are living in a post ideas world where bold ideas are almost passé’, The New York Times, August 14, 2011 (via amiquote)
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
– Epicurus (via nevver)
July 2011
3 posts
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free...
– Martin Heidegger (via addicted2creativity)
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
4 posts
Anonymous asked: Do you work at the Goodwill by Perkins, in the shopping center in Beth?
Every newspaper in the country has a daily astrology column. Almost none have a...
– Cornelia Dean - NY Times (via jtotheizzoe)
idontownathing:
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5/6 - By Surprise.Mallard.Suns.Look Up.Guidelines.Evan.
Cary Goldberg is doing a sick intro.
8 bucks. 7pm at the Meatlocker (8 Park St., Montclair, NJ)
Everyone come. It’s going to be a ton of fun.
Isaac Asimov on The Relativity of Wrong
“John, when people thought the Earth...
– Isaac Asimov, American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University (1920-1992), The Relativity of Wrong (via amiquote)
April 2011
9 posts
If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be...
– Henry David Thoreau.
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The more you learn about the real lives of real people, the less able you are to...
– Henry Louis Gates Jr. (via cheatsheet)
Paging the Donald.
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If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not...
– Noam Chomsky (via zuleikha)
March 2011
24 posts
Historical illiteracy is a threat to the health of a republic. Our ignorance of...
– Thomas Frank (via thoughts-ideas)
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GOP House Judiciary Committee Resolves to Put ‘In...
“Just four months ago the tea party Republicans won control of the House by campaigning on reducing the deficit and promising to focus on “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” But in the 12 weeks since they officially took over, what they have shown is that, despite their new “tea party” branding, this current batch is no different from the GOP pols who ran Congress in the Bush and Gingrich eras.
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jonathan-cunningham:
The prison system in the United States is a profit-making industry. Private corporations operate over 200 facilities nationwide and are traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Six corporations control virtually all American media. News Corp. owns over 27 television stations and over 150 newspapers. Time Warner has over 100 subsidaries including CNN, Time Magazine, and The...
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
– Søren Kierkegaard (via wewalkonlava)
If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately...
– Noam Chomsky (via behgobehgo)
Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.
– Eric Hoffer (via yearslater)
—Excerpt from Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein →
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“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of…