December 2011
Let's do this
end of year review.
**1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? **
Moved to NYC. Got a real person job. Cross-country train trip. Went rock climbing (in a gym but whatever).
**2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? **
I don’t generally do resolutions. I want to do something really exciting, like go sky diving or white water...
The Case of Loving v. Bigotry →
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In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom. Their crime: being married to each other.
“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they...”
– Terry Pratchett (via enlightenedbombshell)
“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via wildhorsescouldntdragmeaway)
“No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger,...”
– Yashar Ali, Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)
I hate when people claim that women are crazy or complicated or don’t know what they want because fuck you. When a woman is vocal about her opinions, desires, feelings, you call her a bitch or crazy or hysterical. Women have been taught that...
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“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is...”
– Myra Pollack Sadker (via aninsufferableknowitall)
“In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via soupsoup
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Venezuela helps US poor with energy →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
The aid, which is provided by Citgo, a branch of the Venezuelan state oil company, PDVSA, will be received by more than 400,000 poor Americans next year, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Citgo’s president, Alejandro Granado, has said that rising energy costs continue to affect millions of Americans, impairing their quality of life. Granado added that his...
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“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell (via pavorst)
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London Hates You: “Actually, the only time I ever... →
“Actually, the only time I ever tried to cultivate being sexy was when I read Peyton Place. I was about sixteen and I read that this guy’s watching this woman walk and he can tell she’s a good fuck by the way she walks. It’s a whole passage. He’s telling Allison McKenzie, “I know you’re a…
