March 2012
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The Hunger Games' original casting call for... →
THIS. Pretty much sums up how I feel about THG movie casting (although I’m less inclined to think Katniss was supposed to be Greek or Italian, considering all the other racial overtones present in the book and Katniss being from the Appalachians).
stfuconservatives:
Before I get any more Asks about my feelings re: Katniss and Jennifer Lawrence, read this. I’ve gotten messages saying “they...
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Amber Tamblyn is a boss. Here’s...
think4yourself: For those who think blacks in... →
feedmerevolution:
Fact: Black youths arrested for drug possession are 48 times more likely to wind up in prison than white youths arrested for the same crime under the same circumstances.
Source: “Young White Offenders get lighter treatment,” 2000. The Tennessean. April 26: 8A.
Fact: Black and Latino men are three times more likely than white men to be stopped by the police and have their cars...
February 2012
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January 2012
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Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page...
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October 2011
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party compared... →
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn’t work.
Douglas Rushkoff
September 2011
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November 2010
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“It’s OK if it’s impossible; it’s OK! Listen carefully. The object is not to win....”
– Labor organizer Baldemar Velasquez
t r u t h o u t | Bill Moyers: “Welcome to the Plutocracy!”
October 2010
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10 Weirdest Physics Facts
I find this so fascinating! Oh, the implications, if only we could really understand — especially numbers 3, 4, 6, 8 & 9. Imagine…
1. If the Sun were made of bananas, it would be just as hot.
2. All the matter that makes up the human race could fit in a sugar cube.
3. Events in the future can affect what happened in the past.
4. Almost all of the Universe is missing — visible matter...
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
– Saint Augustine (via azspot)
“People forget that the day before the earthquake there were more NGOs operating...”
– Daniel, who lives in a tent city run by Sean Penn’s Haiti organization.
Inside Sean Penn’s Tent City in Haiti | | AlterNet
“If you’re going to use “focusing on raising your family” as a...”
– Gawker commenter sarrible (who has an adorable Dexter’s Lab avatar) on Meg Whitman’s reason for not bothering to vote: she was too busy raising racist, raping assholes.
The Rape Accusation Against Meg Whitman’s Son That Got Hushed Up
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“There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s...”
– Warren Buffet—November 2006
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“There is no equality. You cannot guarantee that any two people will end up the...”
– Rush Limbaugh being awesome. And by awesome, I mean a stupid dick. But that’s just because some people are born to be stupid, greedy, fat, drug addled fucks I guess.
I cannot express how much I loathe this false idea that somehow superiority is inherent, that hard work and bootstrapping...
September 2010
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Judge orders lesbian Air Force nurse discharged... →
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WatchVIDEO: Stephen Colbert testifies in front of Congress, is generally awesome.
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August 2010
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Inception: Life is a Dream...
Long ago the Mayans once said, “Life is a dream. We only come to dream, we only come to sleep. It is not true, not true that we come on Earth to live.”
I love movies that prick at my brain like an itch that must be scratched. The movies that taunt me, begging me to solve them, analyze them, figure them out. Memento did this, as does Inception. So much so I had to see it twice. Here’s my...
After 7.5 years, the last US combat troops are... →
apsies: mandigray: This is a beautiful thing.
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Divorce Agreement.
Wow. I must be a liberal, because the “liberal” country that would be born from this divorce agreement actually sounds quite awesome. And European.
stfuconservatives: Submitted by bettenoir: “Via Facebook. Hilarious. Too good not to spread around. Either way, enjoy.”
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters,...
July 2010
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“Give the children what they need, not what is left over. Treat the young...”
– Dr. Susan Shepherd, MSF, quoted in an Inter Press Service article, June 5th 2010. (via doctorswithoutborders)
June 2010
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WatchShepard Fairey & Antonino D’Ambrosio GRITtv - Obey Giant
May 2010
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“This is how moral drift occurs—we gradually come to accept that it is okay for...”
– Susan Brooks (via azspot)