June 2010
11 posts
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
– Franz Kafka (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
“Others are more slippery about this position. They’ll state their religious...”
– Greta Christina’s Blog: Do You Care Whether the Religious Ideas You Believe in Are True or Not? (via greaterthanlapsed) (via cheneymabel)
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right...”
– Tom Stoppard (via libraryland) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via wordpainting)
March 2010
1 post
trust
You can think through something a million times in your mind from every angle possible, recounting every second, grasping for what you missed, what you lost, what you can’t figure out and still not understand it. It’s almost wasted emotion, isn’t it? The adrenaline rush, the familiar wave of emotions crashing into you every time, until your body can’t take it anymore is almost too much. Physically...
January 2010
7 posts
“Something happened a long time ago to Haiti, and the people may not want to talk...”
– Evangelist PAT ROBERTSON, explaining his theory behind Haiti’s woes on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Fuck you, Pat Robertson, and anyone else who believes this fucking shit.
(Video here.)
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Today, We’re All Haitians →
caraobrien:
From Nick Kristof of the NYT, excerpt:
Poverty always hugely magnifies natural disasters. I saw this first in the terrible 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh that killed more than 100,000 people. The poorest people lived in marginal areas, such as flood plains, and in flimsy huts that were immediately washed away. So they were killed. Those who were better off lived on firmer land in...
Uganda anti-gay bill could sentence homosexuals to...
New York and San Francisco Use Condoms as Evidence...
By Alex Dibranco
for Change.org
Thursday, I pointed out that police in D.C., which has thehighest rate of HIV/AIDS in the country, are reported to use possession of condoms as evidence of sex work. (Yeah, they can clearly afford to discourage safe sex techniques.) Turns out, the nation’s capital isn’t the only one.
After being tipped off by a commenter that San Franciscopolice use...
December 2009
28 posts
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
~Dr....”
When I Shall Sleep
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity, And never care how rain may steep, Or snow may cover me! No promised heaven these wild desires Could all, or half, fulfill; No threatened hell, with quenchless fires, Subdue this quenchless will! So said I, and still say the same; Still, to my death, will say— Three gods within this little frame Are warring night and day: Heaven could not hold...
I'm not doing Christmas anymore. It's official....
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I’m Scrooge or anti-seasonal. No, I have my Christmas records and I enjoy the lights and the sounds and all my warm sweaters and hot chocolate. I believe strongly in giving but I don’t need a holiday to give me a reason to do it. The whole marketing agendas this time of year make me want to puke. I can’t even go into a mall right...
Jenny Block in Newsweek, "Tiger Woods and the Case...
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rkb:
Finally someone is saying this! My friend Jenny Block, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Open, at Newsweek:
As it turns out, desire is exactly what’s at issue here. Human beings desire variety. We desire multiple partners. It’s a simple fact that’s built into our biology. And while some choose monogamy simply because it...
Insights into my life. Part 1
The Salvation Army has half-price days on Wednesday so I go there to buy clothes and shoes for me and my girls. Last week I decided to buy a pair of boots for myself. I liked them and plus the only closed-toe shoes I had were work out shoes. I wanted something more stylish.
$5
The next day in the middle of the grocery store, the sole fell off the bottom. My three girls thought it was hilarious...
“Why should we accept that the “talent” of someone who writes jingles for an...”
– Howard Zinn (via fyeahsocialism) (via ziatroyano)
Zinn is an auto-reblog
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YES! I just did a presentation on this very thing for class this week with an angle on raising children to display their natural...
I don’t get the vampire thing. Really don’t get it. They’re drinking each others Bah-LUD for crying out loud! Seriously. That’s just gross.
Give
Every time you see a bell ringer, Give.
Even if it’s just a few pennies on the way in and a few pennies on the way out, Give.
Don’t just walk by, Give.
Doing something, no matter how small, is better than nothing at all, Give.
In a community college English class. I am the oldest one in there, I think. (It’s a core class) And I mentioned to the class, we were on the topic of sex education among teenagers, that Ghandi had been married at 13.
The girl next to me said, “Who’s Ghandi?”
And then I was sad.
“Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills.
~Clifford Odets”
Hello, I am your statistic for today.
I am a statistic.
I am thirty years old and have three girls under the age of nine. Though not on welfare currently, I have been in years past. I struggle to get by, unable to pay all of my bills on time, getting raped at every financial institution that runs credit checks thanks to an embarrassingly bad score.
I am a statistic. I was abused growing up, as were many. I was molested, beaten and...