September 2010
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s...
– Jodi Picoult (via apsies)
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Remembering Katrina - 5 years later
thepoliticalpartygirl:
faithandbegorrah:
tart-tart:brooklynmutt:
REMEMBERING KATRINA
On the fifth anniversary of the hurricane that ravaged New Orleans (and much of the rest of the Gulf Coast), Shearer isn’t the only journalist seeking to put the disaster in perspective. A round-up of recent examinations:
If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise: In this two-part HBO documentary, Spike...
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There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me...
– Matt Taibbi (via kateoplis)
Go deeper
Past thoughts into silence.
Past silence into stillness.
Past...
– Kabir (1440—1518) (via santosha65, crashinglybeautiful)
Donate to the Pakistan flood relief effort
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rightsandhumanity:
If you can donate, choose an organization and go for it. Every little bit helps.
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UNICEF
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Doctors Without Borders
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CARE
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The International Red Cross
ActionAid
The Humanitarian...
Ah, to be young and feel love’s keen sting.
– Albus Dumbledore (via tarrinj) (via cancerninja)
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i made black beans tonight
i never thought of them, until last year, two years ago? when i was dating this german photographer. he was 12 years older than me and separated from his wife. he was attractive, sexy and very cosmopolitan, but not really my type and up until we first met up for drinks, i thought he was a dick. but i was fascinated, because, truth be told, he was an artist and a man. not another 20 something...
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
crookedindifference:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via caraobrien)
Everything naturally flowed towards mediocrity; for this, the world needed...
– David Bezmozgis
Oh, Ayn Rand, You Silly Goose
crookedindifference:
kohenari:
At least once every semester, some student will want to know why there’s no Ayn Rand in any of the political theory courses I teach.
Well, I tell them, it’s because her books are marginal works of fiction filled with intellectually bankrupt pseudo-theory about what you might want to do if your goal is to create a society that would fall apart almost...
Test.
As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to...
– The Plum Line - One of the finest moments of Obama’s presidency via nishachittal, colorlines. (via tobia)
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bits and bites
He covered me with a sheet but I kicked it off. I was fully dressed down to my jangly gold bracelets that announced my every movement and the shiny turquoise leather earrings people were always telling me they loved. It must have been six a.m. His flight was leaving out of JFK at nine and he had been worried about traffic. Of course I’d convinced him to stay out and have more wine. ...
e___e im still drunk
(via sade)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is...
– Thomas Edison (via crookedindifference)
Dear Coke Talk: On being lovestoned. →
I was engaged to a complete ass whipe 3 months ago. We obviously ended it. In that time I’ve been meeting new people and have found someone amazing. Its been only 3 weeks, a very short amount of time, but we’ve dropped the L bomb on each other. Is that too soon, even if we can’t deny that we do…
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When you die, and it really could be this afternoon, you will not be happy about...
– Dave Eggers | via notrational
my hero.
If you honestly want to say “fuck you,” all it takes is two little words....
– Dear Coke Talk (via trixietreats) (via constantflux)
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Sex is one of the most sacred aspects of human life, sex is a vital element in...
– Dallas Kenmare (The Philosophy of Love) (via santosha65, sex-death-rebirth)