October 2011
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September 2011
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Charter schools have strayed so far from their... →
“I’ll admit my understanding of post-modernism is probably flawed, but if I’ve...”
– Wrestle With Jimmy (via pieratt)
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how 401k's made Americans hate Wall Street
“The average citizen has seen their investments stagnate. Even after the massive rise in the market’s value since 2009, the pre-election crash still informs the opinions that most of us hold on the market’s stability. Promises of compound interest and massive returns simply are rarely seen by most workers, because they do not have sufficient salary to invest a lot into their...
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Slavery Foot Print →
http://slaveryfootprint.org/
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rosinhabela:
My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos...
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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: New Facebook now 1,000% more... →
so it seems I’m justified in disconnecting all apps cnnmoneytech:
Most of last week’s Facebook coverage of focused on Timeline and “real-time apps.” Wasn’t till today that we started to realize just what “real-time apps” actually means: Anything you do, on any app you’ve let connect to Facebook, can be broadcast in realtime.
Every story you read on Yahoo….
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“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state...”
– President Barack Obama • tugging on some low-hanging fruit from the GOP debates. Good timing, bro. (via zainyk)
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“Sure, we cherry pick evidence, we spin world events, and we impose our worldview...”
– Kevin Drum (via blissandzen)
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“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me, All I ask is that you...”
– Jackie Robinson
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If a republican is elected president (let's...
stfuconservatives:
rabblevolunteer:
What happens to the soldiers who have come out?
Are they “grandfathered” in? Or will they be immediately dishonorably discharged even though they didn’t really break the policy because they came out after it had been removed?
Can we just fast forward to January 2012?
That is an excellent question.
-Joe
This was why Obama pissed everyone off and took...
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CorrectHealth is the for-profit medical corporation that oversees all executions in Georgia. Hippocratic oaths are so outdated I suppose, but maybe that’s just when it comes to the incarcerated.
Carlo Musso MD, President of CorrectHealth
Wonder what the good doctor will have to say about tonight?
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“May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.”
– Troy Davis’ last words to his executioners
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they always say he had it coming
“Where is the quest for truth? Is our system of law such a debased athletic contest that truth no longer matters, only finding a scapegoat? If Troy Davis is innocent, then how can it not matter that Officer McPhail’s killer is free? Does executing Davis as soon as possible simply remove that possibility, making it no longer matter? Or does the emotional and aggressive quest for a death...
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“That’s what you do with Depression, you mask the symptoms. The symptoms of...”
– Craig Ferguson on Tom Cruise attacking Brooke Shields for using anti-depressants to fight Post-Partum Depression. (via fadesandspins)
I didn’t realize that my opinion of Craig Ferguson could go higher, but now it has.
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“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– - Brian Eno, cited by Eric Tamm in Brian Eno: His Music and The Vertical Sound Of Color
I try to take walks everyday, to let the world wash over me and wipe out work thoughts for a while. (via stoweboyd)
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The Examined Life →
“…Many of my critics pretend that they have been entirely self-made. They seem to feel responsible for their intellectual gifts, for their freedom from injury and disease, and for the fact that they were born at a specific moment in history. Many appear to have absolutely no awareness of how lucky one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to...
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious — makes you...”
– Mario Savio, 1964 (via wilwheaton)
Always worth a reblog.
(via bensgrabbag)
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Windows on the World
I didn’t think I’d take part in the 9/11 reminisces today, and still don’t think I will. But I did visit the towers a few times in the 90’s, and have been thinking about those visits.
I went in and walked around the lobby once or twice after looking for clothes at Century21, the inexpensive always-crowded always-stylish store next door. The multiple banks of elevators, the...
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the conservative fear of social mobility →
“But it’s worth noting what exactly is the most important conservative consideration— what is actually being conserved? What part of the status quo is most important for the conservative to maintain? There are many options: religion, social ways, class & race issues, relation of big business to government, money-making opportunities, even style of dress can fit in there.
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"Ten years on, the long-term shape of Ground Zero... →
humanscaled:
—Paul Goldberger, Shaping the Void, The New Yorker
Here, at least, we are unfortunately thankful for that.
While we do want to see all the architects selected produce their best work here, it would be horrible to see a field of ‘starchitects’ signatures, a mashup of the trendy and unwieldy, reflecting only what was popular in our profession between 2001 and 2010: a museum of...
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“Mrs. Linde: “One has to live, doctor.”
Dr. Rank: “Yes, there’s a common...”
– A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (via gentlecycle)
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