January 2012
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December 2011
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Happy almost New Year everyone.
I’m leaving for the evening, so I’ll say this a few hours early—
In the coming year, let’s try to remember what we’re thankful for instead of bemoaning our losses or misfortunes, try to take care of each other instead of constantly cutting one another down and more than that, let’s try to remember to love for it will always be more powerful than hate.
Peace...
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Good Reason News: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support…
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“Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
I used to be in love with Ayn Rand until I realized how black and white she really is. I was impressionable and felt comforted by her absolute and objective stance. This is probably one of the very few things that I can appreciate from her now, because she’s right.
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I'm so irritated right now and I don't even know...
I’m going to go bake alone in my kitchen and ignore my phone/laptop. Don’t take it personally if you get ignored by extension, I just hate everyone right now.
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“Misogyny is a systematic and institutionalized form of bigotry and oppression...”
– My response to a man asking “can’t we all just be friends?” and “isn’t misandry just as bad as misogyny?” (via sixtyforty)
ugh I want to staple this to the “what about the menz??!” faux-feminist guys on my course.
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*slow clap*
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THIS!
(via feministhistorian)
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“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on...”
– Treaty of Tripoli Article 11.
In anticipation to Christmas dinner at my uncles, I am posting this so I can just pull it out. In my uncles Christmas letter, he said the US was founded on Christianity. Our good old founding fathers prove him wrong, yet again. I think the 1st Amendment confuses him as...
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10 Reasons Not To Vote For Ron Paul →
angrylittledad:
readyokaygo:
1. Ron Paul does not value equal rights for minorities. Ron Paul has sponsored legislation that would repeal affirmative action, keep the IRS from investigating private schools who may have used race as a factor in denying entrance, thus losing their tax exempt status, would limit the scope of Brown versus Board of Education, and would deny citizenship for those...
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“As a Muslim, I’m sick of people asking me how I feel about 9/11. What do you...”
– Aman Ali (via madeinkashmir)
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In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 →
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“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via coketalk)
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15 Things to Keep in Mind:
1. The only person that can ever truly make you happy is yourself. Stop depending on everyone else.
2. People lie, stuff happens. Don’t take it too personally.
3. Want people to think you’re amazing? Start believing you are, and then they will too.
4. Smiling is the ultimate anti-depressant. Smile and laugh out loud, it doesn’t look stupid, I promise.
5. The world is never just black and white,...
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“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
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