December 2011
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Surprise!
Family from Egypt visiting for the first time in ages tomorrow?
Yeah, the news shocked me too.
Heck yes!
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“Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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Libertarian or Rapper? →
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Witamy Wigilia
Yesterday night we had the Perilla family over for our annual Dirty Santa Extravaganza. Everyone (Me, Andrew, Peter, Missy, Tom, Nina, Winnie, Jamie, Elise, William, AC, Mirelle, Sarah, Vince, Vincie, Molly, Teddy, Ellie, Celeste, Jeremy, Robert & his new girlfriend (who was a total peach), Bobby, Tad, Gina & her boyfriend) showed up! except Martha, Jake, Abby, Gregory and Catherine. I...
QUEERING THE GAME OF LIFE: Anti Fascist Italian... →
ragdublin:
The GDDD were an organization of women in Italy from 1943-45. They were the largest group of active anti fascist women at the time. At their height they had around 70,000 members and comprised of women from every walk of life, from previously unpoliticised housewives to…
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My Microsoft Word is Anti-Imperialist... and...
Why oh why does Microsoft Word recognize to capitalize “De Tocqueville” automatically but still insist that I spell “America’s” wrong every time I add an apostrophe and an s to the end of it?
The only explanation that I can come up with is that my Microsoft Word software is anti-imperialist… and French.
Clearly a diplomat. Clearly a contradiction.
Mon...
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sitting in the co-op
Sitting in the co-op, minding my own business.
Frantically reading Andre Bacevich’s The Limits of Power so I can write this damn paper and finally be done with this semester.
Stuck sitting next to sexually active nerds.
The girl just interrupted an awkward make-out-over-coffee-table session to say: “You know how you have five senses? Well it’s actually more. You actually...
“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 ticktockdeathclock)
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“Forgetting is essential to action of any kind… it is possible to live almost...”
– Nietzsche
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“Before I came to America, I was told that the streets were paved with gold. When...”
– An old Italian joke about immigration to America
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The War is Over
Today, December 15, America pulled out of Iraq.
At 5:15 a.m. EST the U.S. Joint Forces Iraq command ceased operations.
Nine years, 100,000 Iraqi deaths, nearly 5,000 U.S. deaths, and tens of thousands wounded. Countless scarred.
And there were no weapons of mass destruction to be found anywhere.
OH MY FUCKING GOODNESS
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Only in America... →
Trucker sentenced to 6 years in case of bondage sex death, burned body in Mississippi.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.”
– a 1631 edition of the King James Bible — nicknamed “the Wicked Bible” for its unfortunate typo — housed at the Folger Shakespeare Library. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s...”
– Ayn Rand
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“If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life,...”
– Robbins
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“We must all make the choice between what is right and what is easy.”
– Professor Dumbledore
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