November 2009
“It’s staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot) (via soupsoup)
“We rely on gay-rights groups to battle it out alone for marriage rights in...”
– The Company We Keep | The American Prospect (via julyshewillfly)
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Nietzsche (via brooklynmutt)
“‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.”
– William Shakespeare (via calidre) (via quote-book) (via lovemewithoutfear)
yeeeaaahhhh… i’m bad.
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my 10 alternate commandments
1.) Understand how what you do affects other people. Really try and wrap your mind around this.
2.) Understand how what you do affects you. Ditto. See the whole picture.
3.) If you’re going to do something bad – don’t get caught.
4.) The reward should always be AT LEAST as good as the risk.
5.) If you’re going to denigrate your moral absolutes, it better goddamn be worth it.
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Iran seizes Ebadi's Nobel Peace medal →
seaofgreen:
soupsoup: asie
The symbolism is staggering.
The truth is, they can never truly take it from her.
In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.
They also seized her Legion of Honor and a ring awarded to her by a German association of journalists and froze the bank...
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goodbye
do you ever love that person more than when you are certain it will be the last time you lay in bed together?
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Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto →
azspot:
Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice....
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Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in... →
soupsoup:
At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province (on the southern island of Mindanao) by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the province’s governor, a supporter of President Gloria Arroyo. More than 30 other people were murdered. Some of the victims were beheaded. “Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in...
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