January 2012
25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore →
bookshelfporn:
Hilarious list by Open Salon for anyone who has ever thought about owning their own bookstore (eg. ALL of Bookshelf Porn’s readers).
GOP Uses Racism to Win the White House →
daniellemertina:
“As Iowa demonstrated, be it Gingrich’s yearning to have lazy black and brown kids pick up mops and brooms as janitors in work houses, Romney’s nativist Klan inspired opines to keep “America America,” Santorum’s appeals to a belief that African Americans find sustenance by stealing from hardworking white people, or Ron Paul’s assertion that the Civil Rights Act (with its...
Who is indigenous?
metamorphoseandbodhi:
by selchieproductions
Many people turn to official documents and definitions when they want to define something or someone, but the reality is that there is no universally agreed-upon definition of indigeneity. What is more - a contemporary approach to indigeneity states that we should start moving away from simply defining indigenous people and instead start identifying...
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own…
December 2011
RHPolitics: If I Was A Poor Black Kid, I'd Key... →
rocknrollmartian:
So there’s this fancy new column on Forbes from Gene Marks called “If I Were A Poor Black Kid”. Shockingly, it is not written by a poor black kid, but a middle-class white man. But don’t worry, this isn’t just any rich white man: this is the middle-class white man who knows…
STFU, Conservatives: Marie Annelle's Abortion... →
prolongedeyecontact:
[Starting on November 28, 2011 Marie Annelle began blogging about her experience deciding to have a medical abortion, as well as the process of the procedure itself. She has multiple posts so far because this is a multi-day process, but I’m going to put them all in one…
Ardeur en l'Odyssée: My Views on Corporations &... →
metamorphoseandbodhi:
by Mark Cuban | Blog Maverick
I understand why CEOs of public corporations take advantage of every opportunity to condemn taxes. The lower the tax rate, the greater the after tax profit. The greater the after tax profit, the greater the share price. The greater the share price, the closer they…
Mark Cuban Views on Corporate Taxes
Ardeur en l'Odyssée: What do you think of... →
metamorphoseandbodhi:
jtotheizzoe responded
Oh man, vegetarianism. This is a tough one. I think “Opining About Vegetarianism” is Chapter 7 of “How To Lose Friends and Alienate People”.
First, let’s assume you’re not baiting me. Then, I’m only going to approach this from the evolutionary and biological point…
"Trial of the Will." — Christopher Hitchens,... →
longreads:
However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there’s one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
In fact, I now sometimes wonder why I ever thought it...
November 2011
October 2011
