January 2012
55 posts
Reblog if you want messages from a bunch of...
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via mangosun)
December 2011
23 posts
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STFU, Conservatives: SO Twitter pulled... →
abaldwin360:
sageoflogic:
Stay classy Twitter, stay classy.
Nice way to prove the Hitch’s point though.
When are we going to stop bowing to this kind of bullying and pressure from the religious, seriously, twitter should tell them to fuck off.
I understand there are public image…
Ahh, the age old oxymoron of Christians threatening violence. The “true faith” of the...
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CRISIS IN ALABAMA: Investigating the Devastating... →
newly-poly-nyc:
thetart:
excerpt from the report, bold by me:
At an ad hoc hearing on Nov. 21, Mary Bauer shared a “small sample of the kinds of concerns people have raised” through the hot line, including:
A worker called to say his employer refused to pay him, citing HB 56, and stated the worker had no right to be paid under this law.
Latino workers on a construction jobsite were...
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Why Conservatives Can’t Fix Poverty →
Newt Gingrich’s recent utterances about poor children–they “have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works”–reflect not only the inability of conservatives to talk seriously about poverty, but a mean-spiritedness that, unfortunately, largely eludes public scrutiny.
Apparently, Gingrich and the approving Iowa crowd have never heard of “the working poor”–folks stuck in low-wage...
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“Every few months, one of these controversies erupts: some writer or official...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Exploiting the Anti-Semitism Smear Now Backfiring
People are now trying to turn the anti-Semitism smear on Thomas Friedman. What a world we live in.
(via fearandwar)
I’m called an anti-Semite all the time just for criticizing Israel. People get really confused when I tell them I...
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg (via kateoplis)
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The Warning in Gary Webb’s Death →
Because of this misuse of power by the Big Three newspapers — choosing to conceal their own journalistic failings regarding the Contra-cocaine scandal and to protect the Reagan administration’s image — Webb’s reputation was never rehabilitated.
After his original “Dark Alliance” series was published in 1996, Webb had been inundated with attractive book offers from major publishing houses, but...
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“It’s not as if women some sort of mysterious homing pigeon hormones that allow...”
– Alyssa Rosenberg on the issue of why, perhaps, Marvel & DC can’t sustain success with female audiences to the point that they’ll continue to publish titles they’d want to read. She mentions Dan Slott’s fantastic She-Hulk run and that maybe it didn’t have better success because women didn’t know...
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“We have been captives of corrupt economic and political systems for far too...”
– Why We Occupy: The Declaration of Occupy D.C. (via azspot)
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M*A*S*H Star Harry Morgan Dies at Age 96 →
“LOS ANGELES — Harry Morgan, who died Wednesday at 96, never planned to be an actor, yet he spent 10 years on one of the top TV series of all time, made 50 films and appeared on Broadway.
But it was Mr. Morgan’s portrayal of the fatherly Col. Sherman Potter on “MASH” for which Morgan became most famous. His wry humor, which helped net him an Emmy for the CBS hit, carried onto the...
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“This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the...”
– President Barack Obama (via azspot)
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“Such sentiments of admiration, thanks and goodwill are not what Pious Online...”
– An open letter to Rachel Held Evans (via azspot)
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This Is What Injustice Looks Like: Accused Serial... →
This is utterly ridiculous. The man was caught in a shower molesting a child, and he walks without bail, but not so peaceful protestors?
What’s worse, is that I wish I could say I’m surprised. But I’m not.
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“Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. It is a violation...”
– U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • Giving vocal support to the plight of oppressed LGBT persons worldwide, at a meeting of diplomats in Geneva. Clinton’s speech is being hailed as a landmark event in terms of U.S. foreign policy towards LGBT rights, and dovetails with the Obama...
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“Music without spirituality doesn’t deserve its name. It’s the intention behind...”
– Tori Amos (via jasonelijah)
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