November 2010
24 posts
Nov 24th
If you want to know what Buddhism means and how a...
newfilosofee: You get my point.
Nov 22nd
“Men have called me a feminazi, frigid, a bitch, but it all boils down to ‘You...”
–  HBI member, KIM (via lipstick-feminists)
Nov 22nd
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“When we talk about women as cultural producers — whether it’s music or art or...”
– bell hooks in Venus magazine, 2003 (via kperfetto) This is why I’m riled up when I see a new writer/singer/whathaveyou being lauded as “the next” JKR/Beyonce/whathaveyou. (Because God forbid there could be more than one kind of female artist.)
Nov 20th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
Nov 19th
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“Marginalized groups are not responsible for explaining their marginalization to...”
– word. (via wuling09)
Nov 16th
Nov 15th
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I Fixed the US Budget Deficit! →
Dude I totally fixed the US budget deficit! And I didn’t even have to raise anybody’s taxes! Fun game.
Nov 15th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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“Many academics have studied the cause for the Partition and its horrendous...”
– A review of The Great Partition on Amazon. (via trastorn)
Nov 11th
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“I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam.”
– President Barack Obama, in a speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, November 10, 2010 (via mohandasgandhi) This is the kind of attitude we need in America. (via stfuislamophobes)
Nov 10th
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THE 99
Hide your face and grab the kids. Coming soon to a TV in your child’s bedroom is a posse of righteous, Sharia-com pliant Muslim superheroes — including one who fights crime hidden head-to-toe by a burqa. These Islamic butt-kickers are ready to bring truth, justice and indoctrination to impressionable Western minds. — Andrea Peyser BRB LOLING FOREVER. in other news: the...
Nov 10th
“We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, page 44 (via bearbearpdx)
Nov 10th
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“The rhetoric of “democracy” has recently become a replica of the...”
–  Fakhreddin Azimi, Quest for Democracy in Iran
Nov 9th
ubiquitous use of crazy →
This. Just. So much.
Nov 8th
“Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our...”
–  Eugene Victor Debs.
Nov 8th
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Academic Freedom and Me →
ichmuss: Originally posted here The complications of politics, culture, and academic freedom in one career. By Ian Barnard Prehistory 1 It’s the early 1980s, and I’m an undergraduate student at a notoriously liberal university in South Africa. Apartheid cabinet minister Piet…
Nov 7th
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