August 2012
July 2012
“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”
– S.E. Hinton (via loveyourchaos)
Life is Violent: philosophy-of-praxis: Here’s the... →
philosophy-of-praxis:
Here’s the thing about the London Olympics opening ceremony (re. the bang on commentary criticising Piers Morgan’s racist shitty comparison with the Beijing opening ceremony.)
It was never going to be about proving to the rest of the world how awesome Britain is and…
“So if I’m understanding all of this correctly, today the president said that if...”
– The Agitator (via azspot)
“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– Chuch Palahniuk (via selfinspiration)
I am the heart that you call home: The tragic... →
The tragic shooting in Colorado shook us all wide awake and reminded us of our mortality. It brought sadness and fear, disgust and outrage. James Holmes’s name has been heard on various news outlets and talk shows. He trended on Twitter for a whole day. He gained what he sought, fame. IBut it is…
“In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the...”
– Denis Diderot (via socialistscum)
“What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking,...”
– Sandy Weill, the man who helped repeal Glass-Steagall, has a change of heart. (via motherjones)
“Now this movement of displacement belongs essentially to the...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (via rhizombie)
: Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time,... →
inthenoosphere:
An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, “working through the night”.
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while the…
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“What did happen early Friday morning was not an act of God. It was not His will...”
– Andrew Cohen, on gun violence in America. (via theatlantic)
although im not quite fond on heavily armed police either…..
“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of...”
– Arundhati Roy (via jahanzebjz)
It’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her.
^extremely powerful.
(via mmmightymightypeople)
“Between 8,500 and 30,000 Syrians have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours,...”
– Assad Troops Force Rebels to Retreat in Damascus Battle - NYTimes.com
“For so long everyone has wanted to hold on to the belief that the United States...”
– bell hooks (via thenewwomensmovement)
