April 2012
41 posts
March 2012
65 posts
"the experience of sharing stuff has begun to... →
'Bully': Behind Every Harassed Child? A Whole Lot... →
“Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as a social problem. “Just kids being kids” can no longer be an acceptable response to the kind of sustained physical and emotional abuse that damages the lives of young people whose only sin is...
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Issac Asimov (via askjerves)
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)
““Love the Scratch. Love the Grain. Love the Lightleak too. They are the lines,...”
– Excerpts from The Sayings of St. Tula, patron saint of film (via sacraments)
“Every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as... →
The myth of freedom in the land of the free →
claytoncubitt:
“It’s worth saying again that this is not a natural occurrence of the free and open marketplace. The upward redistribution of wealth is the concrete result of politics and policy - one might even say socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else.
Or should I say authoritarianism for everyone else. Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the US has spent about $635bn to...
“I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends...”
– Bill Maher (via)
“It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if...”
– Jonah Lehrer, on the link between depression and creativity. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)
Pet Peeves:
kateordie:
Watching the trailer for Frankenweenie and seeing “Tim Burton, the director of Alice in Wonderland”
Rather than, “the director of Edward Scissorhands” or “the director of Big Fish”
Which were, you know, good movies
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest;...”
– Confucius (via kateoplis)
"The idea that you have to be a vegan saint to... →
claytoncubitt:
Molly Crabapple
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
– Terry Pratchett (via zoetica)
“Slut-shaming collapses the complexity of another person onto a single dimension....”
– If You Don’t Respect Sluts, You Don’t Respect Women, Charlie Glickman (via barbiehighheels)
“Human beings took our animal need for palatable food … and turned it into...”
– Greta Christina (Sex and the Off-Label Use of Our Bodies) (via barbiehighheels, sexisnottheenemy)
“Did you ever notice that ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision?”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kateoplis)
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“He had been taught, of course, that history, along with geography, was dead....”
– William Gibson
[source] (via naranzarian)
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via thechocolatebrigade) 