December 2010
“What is luck, but the ability to exploit accidents?”
– Bonaparte
“We’re a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much...”
– The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
Teach your 6 year old about social construction
jhnbrssndn:
At the next event where you might be expected to take photographs (a national holiday, a family event, a vacation), don’t take photographs when you would normally do so. Take them rigorously at predetermined times (every hour, the same time every day, etc) no matter what is going on. Instead of smiling groups or shots of individuals posing before a landmark or scenery, you will have...
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jingc:
Every day, for the almost two years I worked as a staff librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay, the pattern was the same: Seconds after they were released from their units, inmates would not walk, they would run — as though catapulted — towards the prison’s library.
A really interesting look at the impact that prison libraries can have on inmates.
“$10,676,998,737”
– Search | USAspending.gov
The numbers by dollar that the U.S. Government has in contracts with BP.
(via dxo)
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via quote-book)
“You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make...”
– Richard Siken (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I guess I just have to accept that I’ll always be a little in love with you …....”
– Betty Suarez; Ugly Betty. (via quote-book)
“All our fights and lies made us stronger. Thats where you can tell if its real...”
– Edyl Patrick Victoria (via quote-book)
Cynical Idealism: some history blogs you should... →
teallikethecolor:
fuckyeahushistory:
Fuck Yeah Asian/Pacific Islander History*
Fuck Yeah Latin American History
Fuck Yeah Ancient History
Fuck Yeah 18th Century History
Fuck Yeah Art History
Fuck Yeah Gay Vintage
Black Vintage
War is Peace
Vintage Lesbian
…
2010
libraries:
last year i abstained this year i devour without guilt which is also an art.
—margaret atwood
vruz:
A Special Supplement: The Responsibility of Intellectuals
by Noam Chomsky, The New York Review of Books
[…]
With respect to the responsibility of intellectuals, there are still other, equally disturbing questions. Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. In the...
Drugs, Blackmail, And Wikileaks →
vruz:
vruz: nothing too important, mainstream media! they were all black children anyway, right?
Elsewhere at The Atlantic, Walter Armstrong posts this jaw-dropping dispatch:
On Day 12 of WikiLeaks’s release of U.S. State Department cables, the daily drip, drip, drip of diplomatic secrets implicated the pharmaceutical industry. The company was Pfizer, the country was Nigeria, and the...
“The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our...”
– Anaïs Nin (via septembrist)
“The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our...”
– Anaïs Nin (via septembrist)
grouchery:
226/ December 12, 2010 - Yes
itouchtouchthings:
I asked you if you ever thought of leaving me and you said yes. Other people would have said no because it was easier to avoid the truth; or maybe they didn’t know the truth at all. But you’ve thought about leaving and you might have even pictured the girl who would come next. You weighed your chances at other circumstances;...
“I’m actually more troubled by my lack of racial diversity which, again, stems...”
– From my earlier thoughts on the current topic.
Might be worth pointing out at this point that my being generally troubled by the state of erotic photography is part of why I’ve posted less and less pictures of naked people recently. This will be borne out in a quick search of the recent archives.
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“The leaders of Myanmar and Belarus, or Thailand and Russia, can now rightly say...”
– Clay Shirky
vruz: exceptionalism: to get away with doing the things others can’t do.
(via vruz)
“And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special,...”
– Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (via misswallflower)
“And no group of people, is as important as a single person. There’s no them...”
– I Wrote This For You: The New Singularity (via kari-shma)
“Bit by bit… she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming...”
– Toni Morrison, Beloved. (via avaadore)
“It’s strange, isn’t it, how sanguine we are about the time before we were alive....”
– Tricia Sullivan (via suzywire)
Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion... →
vruz:
vruz: McCarthyism is back! now with zeal! courtesy the Obama administration.
In late September, the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and antiwar offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids, the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several antiwar and community...
“The whole world could tell from someone’s eyes if they were in love.”
– Brida, Paulo Coelho | submitted by tuesbelle (via quote-book)
Watchwocsurvivalkit:
dominickbrady:
“And I said to myself, ‘God! If it would destroy him to be called a girl. What are we then teaching him about girls?”
almas88:
At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and...
Mindfulness Therapy Beats Drugs in Preventing... →
psychotherapy:
Mindfulness therapy — in the form known as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)– demonstrates greater efficacy than antidepressant medications for the prevention of a depression relapse, according to new data.
MBCT combines the use of tried-and-true cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques with greater focus on self-awareness and self-reflection.
In the current study,...
“I don’t want to be overdramatic, but today felt like a hundred years in hell and...”
– Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation (via fivefifteen)