December 2011
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favorite albums of 2011
My top 7, in no particular order:
1. Knife Man- Andrew Jackson Jihad
2. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
3. El Camino- Black Keys
4. The People’s Key- Bright Eyes
5. England Keep My Bones- Frank Turner
6. Gimme Some- Peter, Bjorn, and John
7. Barton Hollow- The Civil Wars
This was a weird year for music, and on a larger scale it’s a weird decade for music. This year there has been a...
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“When I was 18 I wanted to fuck on the floor and break shit. When I was 25 I...”
– Not Sylvia Plath (via adrenalinezombie)
Henry goddamn Rollins (via misanthropicanthropoid)
“Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (via bookoasis)
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“We are just fed up with the two-party system. The Democratic Party, I think, has...”
– Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson • Giving a mission statement of sorts as he makes it official — former Republican candidate and governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson has leapt over to the Libertarian Party to mount a third-party candidacy for president. Johnson was a popular governor...
“There is no freedom or equality for women without reproductive freedom. Having...”
– Joan Walsh of Salon, “Today’s GOP Makes Mississippi Look Liberal” (via liberalsarecool)
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“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body,...”
– Hunter Reveur (via oppressmenot)
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“They pick corn in Iowa. They pick Presidents in New Hampshire.”
– JON HUNTSMAN
Can we make him President now? And he shops at Trader Joe’s, too. (via deadpresidents)
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So I was reading some political blogs...
respectacles:
On the other hand, I could really get behind more crazy honey badger libertarians in the Senate making Mitch McConnell’s life unbearable.
-Leon Wolf, RedState.com
I could really get behind the term “honey badger” as an adjective or noun for those who don’t give a shit.
Did you see that naked girl run up and throw a pie at Newt Gingrich? Yeah man, she’s a total honey badger. I...
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“We need to remember what’s important in life. Friends, waffles, and work. Or...”
– – Leslie Knope (via senoralovegood)
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“We need some angry nerds.”
– Jonathan Zittrain, Technology Review. The Personal Computer is Dead.
Jonathan Zittrain, whose 2008 book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It explores the transformation of the open Internet to one that’s increasingly closed and controlled, writes that the growth of “App Stores” is putting...
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“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...”
– Oscar Wilde (via historical-nonfiction)
National Lawyer's Guild condemns NDAA provisions... →
daretoeatapeach:
What struck me about this article, aside from its total accuracy, was the concluding line:
As “terrorism” and “radical Islam” have come to replace “Communism” in the federal government’s lexicon of fear, the United States continues its spiral toward a new era of McCarthyism. The NDAA is one more step down that road.
I’m compelled to agree with the comparison to McCarthyism....
“Americans love to think that they are so very informed as a result of the...”
– Glenn Greenwald
This is one of the most important points about how America functions. Certain knowledge and debate is kept out of the mainstream discourse. Hence, you get stupid questions like “Why do they hate us?”
(via fearandwar)
person: hey i like that ban-
me: REALLY?
me: what's your favorite song
me: what's your favorite album
me: what's your favorite picture of one of them sleeping
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I spent a while today sitting on my car talking with Rhett and we hit a topic that has been churning in the back of my mind for a while now. While I understand that checking your privilege is crucial to perspective and understanding the limitations you have within the debate when it comes to racism, feminism, classism, etc., how feasible is it to carry the concept over to the...
BETTER YOUR BRAIN: betteryourbrain:... →
betteryourbrain:
betteryourbrain:
I’ve never been rejected from anything academic before (with the exception of NHS which I have discounted as bullshit and subsequently choose to ignore). Turns out it’s motivating, knocked 3 apps out today.
Written:
Yale
Sarah Lawrence
Oberlin
Columbia
DONE WITH THEM ALL I AM THE CHAMPION OF ALL OF THE THINGS
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I, Amanda Susannah, of twisted mind, sound body, and glorious spirit, am finished applying to college.
I’m comfortable with my essays and everything but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be my decision to put everything in size 11 Georgia that really pushes my apps over the edge.
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Partying on New Year's Eve?
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Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
Seriously, my Dad almost got killed by a drunk driver. If you drink and drive you are not my...
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same…everywhere, all over...”
– George Orwell (via cultureofresistance)
