December 2011
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A Requiem for Sanctuary (2010)
When we were kids, most of the games we played had a “base,” a tree or a trashcan or a garage door that we all agreed to designate as the safe place, the place where you could no longer be tagged, no longer be “it.” Adults, the smart ones, have bases too. They call them by different names. Sanctuary is a good name. I was lucky enough to grow up in a family that had a sanctuary, and we were lucky...
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The Juice News dialogue w/ Noam Chomsky
TJN: How can we stop terrorism?
NC: There's a simple method...
TJN: What tis it?
NC: Just stop participating in it.
TJN: So which in your opinion is the most significant threat to world peace?
NC: Ignorance [agreed]
TJN: I see, and how can we defeat this at last?
NC: Turn off your tv's for a start.
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ॐ: heilsweg: “Destiny urges me to a goal of which... →
heilsweg:
“Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.” - Napoleon
The idea of destiny is something we all question at times and an idea that many are quick to discredit, usually because we feel threatened by it, as if it robs us of our free...
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Skyrim
styro:
So I’m getting near the end of the main quest lines, and because of that, I’m trying to knock out some of the miscellaneous quests so that I don’t have to stop playing. I’m level 40 and my Khajiit follower dual-wields a couple of fireball staffs, and my sneak is so good that people don’t see me even when I’m stabbing them in the face.
I’m sort of afraid that if I finish Skyrim, no...
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Lucky Pennies (DFV, 1993)
We were lucky pennies
Plucked from dancehall urinals
At an autumn mixer
Liberated from nests of
Undergraduate detritus
We stank and were drunk
Shiny
Rolling down moonlit lanes
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Nobody was killed at Tech *as far as any articles...
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th3wolv3r1ne:
News of a cop getting wounded makes CNN but a New York firefighter who died saving somebody’s life DOESN’T? WTF!?
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/08/9302817-2-shot-dead-on-virginia-tech-campus
http://www.wnem.com/story/16219871/virginia-tech-on-lockdown
There’s nothing funny about it. A shooting is a shooting why is press coverage an...
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Healing, or Threat Construction?
“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” Hillary Clinton said this on Tuesday in an address to commemorate Human Rights Day. She went on to say that the US condemns any government that supports the oppression of gays or that turns a blind eye to their abuse or oppression.
My first thought was, “hell yes, it’s about fucking time.” My second thought...
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It Ain't Easy Bein A Bigot
I'm walking along Broad and Belvidere at 7: 15 pm. Although I know that it's this area that I have to worry about being stopped for cigarettes, bus fare, change, and pointless random stories that I don't want to hear. But tonight, I was in for an even better surprise. Imagine an older black woman in her late fifties possibly early sixties. She is 5'5", 220 lbs, and her hair is greying. She is standing on the median between the traffic flow heading east and west down Broad Street. She has a couple bags in her hand, not sure from where.
(A car passes by)
Woman: Goddamn homosexuals, need to slow the fuck down.
(An elderly man on a bicycle passes)
Woman: Goddamn faggot you best be getting out of my motherfucking space bitch
I walked away before I got yelled at.
RadioFreeRichmond -- Good Call. (Plus, they really DO need to slow the fuck down and be getting out of my motherfucking space. Just sayin' : -D)
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mexicanloneliness:
I thought I lost my flask but it turns out it was in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.
You should always lose your mind, but you should never lose your flask. I’m glad it’s safe and sound, and hopefully full of goodies.
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Time: How TIME Saved 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' →
timemagazine:
“In 1963, I did a documentary on Willie Mays, the world’s best baseball player and one on Charlie Brown, the world’s worst. We sold the Mays documentary, but never sold the Charlie Brown documentary. Three years later, TIME Magazine put the [Peanuts] characters on its cover and we got calls…
“Bikes are pretty cool, but if American cities really want to learn something...”
– -Kasey Klimes (via Twitter)
I’ll go ahead and reblog this, not out of vanity but because I mean what I said. It is so easy to make cities for people that considering how often we’ve failed to do so becomes a mind numbing exercise.
I should add: the most dangerous possibility is that we throw up...
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This just in, reported by CBS News Sunday Morning:
The Banks received ten times the amount reported during the TARP bailout — roughly half the GDP — at an interest rate of .01%, resulting in a zero-sum asset loss and a profit in the neighborhood of 39 Billion dollars.
It stopped me in my tracks. It didn’t surprise me, but it stopped me, mouth agape, forkfull of eggs and bacon stuck trembling at half arc, the grease drip-ip...
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