Things I like.
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1 year ago
"I am sick to death of people who celebrate “the family” making excuses about why other people’s children are expendable. I am sick to death of politicians who are more concerned about protecting zygotes than about the teenagers on whom they seek to balance their budgets and advance their careers. (Barney Frank’s line about conservatives’s believing that life “begins at conception and ends at birth” was not entirely a joke, although it’s always been treated as one.) I am sick to death of opportunistic yahoos who can look at this country’s unhealthy attachment to firearms and declare that the actions of George Zimmerman, while unfortunate, were pretty much what the Founders had in mind. I am sick to death of the steady drip-drip-drip of all the topical anesthetics we mix up whenever something like this happens."
1 year ago
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Source: danielhope9 year old Caine sets up an arcade in his father’s used car parts store in East L.A., using only cardboard boxes his dad had lying around and a ton of ingenuity. Watch his dreams come true when this filmmaker sets up a flash mob to come and play.
Just watching this may make you a better person.
$82,000 has already been raised for Caine’s scholarship fund!
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1 year ago
"On why she came out in the Stanford student newspaper when she was 17: “I think because I was 17 and incredibly cocky and full of myself, and I thought that everything I had to do had to make a statement. I think I had a confrontational mindset. I think I was frustrated by the casual anti-gay stuff that I saw among college freshmen in the milieu that I was in. And my attitude toward that was not to try to bring people along gently, gently, and show people by my evident humanity their callousness. I just wanted to throw something up in peoples’ faces. I’m not sure that I would do it that way now. I don’t really have any regret about it. I wish I had been more sensitive to my parents. But I certainly don’t regret coming out. I think that everybody has to find their own way on coming out issues. And some people decide never to. I tend to think it is always better to be out than not out. But not everybody has the option. And when I was a freshman in college, I felt like I had the option, and I exercised it with an exclamation point. I think it says more about being 17 than it does about being gay."
1 year ago
1 year ago
Or one of the many things.
I keep forgetting I have a tumblr. That’s okay, people get busy. But, I have had this tumblr since 2009, and there are a lot of different entries in it. The reblogs I chose over time definitely mirror how I was feeling at the time. I don’t really want to get rid of that or delete the entries.
Now, I am back in school. I love it. I am also reading exponentially more than ever before. Love that too. But I need a place to keep it all. Now that tumblr is getting more popular, it was impossible to find a new username to start over with…so I am not going to. I am just going to start posting these articles/quotes/links here and call it a day. Slight change in content.
1 year ago
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"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
- Louis de Berniéres Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (via quote-book)
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"Perhaps most illuminating, however, was an offhand remark about the size of SOCOM. Right now, he emphasized, U.S. Special Operations forces were approximately as large as Canada’s entire active duty military. In fact, the force is larger than the active duty militaries of many of the nations where America’s elite troops now operate each year, and it’s only set to grow larger."
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How many secret wars are we fighting? - War Room - Salon.com
This entire article was disturbing to me - and, coincidentally, on the topic that I was discussing earlier tonight with a friend.
I do not understand how the US can manage to spend billions and billions of dollars on secret military missions (disregarding the billions spent on the “war on terror” each year) yet cannot be bothered to find money to spend on its own citizens. Cutting benefits such: as Medicare/Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment, funding to services like Planned Parenthood, various governmental agencies that protect the citizens of the country (EPA, USDA, etc), educational loans and grants, AND ON AND ON - none of this seems problematic.
I really wish someone could answer this for me: if the US is unwilling to invest in ITS OWN CITIZENS, what exactly is all of this military effort protecting and serving? If the United States is not its citizens, what is it? How is carrying out military action in other countries more important than ensuring there is actually a country to protect?
1 year ago
"Here’s the alternative: Admit that adult life is scary because there is no clear path to success. Grad school is not a quick fix for the fears of adulthood. Instead, be grateful for the chance to be lost – it means you’re living your own life, because no one can make choices in the exact same way you can, whether they are right or wrong."
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