January 2011
9 posts
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– - John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via paulavaleria)
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A very good point
Robert F. Kennedy's speech the day after Dr.... →
kateoplis:
“This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives. …
Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the...
“…Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
Brilliant comment from a great human being. I am glad I was alive at the same time as him.
“I just told him he’s the shit. You see an actor of that caliber and Robert...”
– Christian Bale on what was bleeped out of the end of his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes last night. Bale brings the exact type of garden variety crazy that I often enjoy in my close family and friends. Congrats, buddy.
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that darn kat: My friend told me last night →
meowsense:
that she is a natural redhead but colors her hair because “Men don’t like redheads, and when they do, it’s a fetish.” Headdesk to end all headdesks. So I said a) that this isn’t true, and b) that even if it were, who cares? If some guy doesn’t like you because of your hair color, he isn’t worth…
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Five myths about why the South seceded →
1. The South seceded over states’ rights. Confederate states did claim the right to secede, but no state claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact, Confederates opposed states’ rights — that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery.
On Dec. 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina’s secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the...
“Civilization was built on slave labor. Manchu Pichu was built by slaves, not...”
– incessant commenting on A profile of a few families who chose to cross the border and a view of agricultural work in America for migrant laborers. (via anthropophagous)
It’s a good thing not to forget this.
(via sexartandpolitics)
Yes.
(via sheresists)
Some of the largest, most-revered sites...