December 2010
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via streetetiquette)
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via friendsandcomrades)
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that DOESN’T help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via technipol)
I am totally down with Revolutionary Jesus, who was crucified by the representatives of the Roman Empire for being so revolutionary in his teachings of love and acceptance of marginalized groups of society, such as disabled people, sick people, poor people, and...
FiNDiNG AGENCY: Happy Superb-Splendid Solstice to... →
findingagency:
This year Winter Solstice occurs in with two other celestial phenomena. I hope to clarify what is going on in the heavens, then what it might symbolize to us all.
First: Some practical information and facts on the celestial happenings that we are experiencing over the duration of the Solstice…
“My skin is brown just like theirs, But now I’m unworthy of the color ‘cause I...”
– Michelle Serros, Chicana Falsa (via findingagency)
I was just thinking about this. Why should my parents be laughed at for their “broken” English, painfully learned over half their lives, but random whiteys squinting into phrasebooks, stammering out “sawasdee” in their crisp linen shorts on luxury...
Best Memorable Television's Catch phrases of all... →
“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...”
– Julian Assange on SNL (via kateoplis)
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes,...
Law 5: So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it...
mskjj:
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once you slip, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and...
The United States has the highest documented...
jwillis:
incarceration rate in the world. The U.S. incarceration rate on December 31, 2008 was 754 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents, or 0.75%. The USA also has the highest total documented prison and jail population in the world.
Just some FYI for you.
: A chronology of important events and... →
fyeahafrica:
infinite—igloos:
July 1, 1960: Somalia gains independence. The country is created through the merger of the British Somaliland Protectorate and Italian Somaliland.
1963: Somalia breaks diplomatic relations with Britain, amid border dispute with Kenya.
1964: Fighting breaks out over border dispute with Ethiopia.
1967: Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke beats Aden Abdullah Osman Daar...
“The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every...”
– Charlotte Wilson (via revolutionnow)
Shoe Porn for Men being made in England Credit:... →
“We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created...”
– Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. What, no endowed by their Creator? That’s the way I like it. (via corruptpolitics)
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull) Yes. Thank you. (via datn)
“Yesterday, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that his state’s...”
– This site right here. (via mediaite)
Can we start putting an asterisk next to Kentucky? Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Jim Bunning, creationists, marijuana being their largest cash crop.
It’s an intellectual dumpster.
(via liberalsarecool)
WHY was I born THERE? WHY? (via corruptpolitics)
