January 2011
31 posts
@creedminusgun
I’m sure there is a bus to St. Andrews that would be cheaper, but I wonder how happy they would be to see me trucking up with my large suitcases and hiking backpack. I just don’t want to be a nuisance on public transportation. The cab company that offers rides to the university does reduced fares on certain days, so it would be about 20 pounds… but for me that is about 40 US...
and if my brother joins the military because he can’t pay for college i swear i will USEFIUSHDFISHEFIULAH;FIUHTUIHSDHDHJ,DSFHJ,DFSJ,U
Already feeling frustrated. I messed up and misunderstood that transfers from airport to the university were free… should have known that was too good to be true. In addition, they have to be made at least 5 days in advance. I’ll be there in three days :/
I’m frustrated because I have less than 400 US dollars in my bank account and don’t want it all to be flying out before...
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
“I wish we didn’t have to go to the street to impress on the regime the need to...”
– Egyptian opposition leader (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Mohamed ElBaradei • Offering his take on the events that led to the current protests. While he’s seen as a possible new leader in the country, he’s not universally loved; others criticize him for choosing to live in Vienna instead of Egypt...
A friend and I were in the Vanderbilt library last night, looking for movies to check out. I leaned quietly against the wall while he had an incredibly long conversation about Derrida and Heidegger and Zizek with the library attendant (those divinity school kids….) and then we began to leave. I was walking absentmindedly behind him thinking about whether I would rather watch Ghostbusters or...
state of the union / anarchism.
dfmarch:
“And now it’s our turn. We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. We need to out-innovate, out- educate, and out-build the rest of the world. We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business. We need to take responsibility for our deficit and reform our government. That’s how our people will prosper; that’s how we’ll win the future.”
This...
“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
I always walk with my keys out after dark. I will gouge your eyes out.
(via robot-heart-politics)
See, my mom taught me to gauge out an attacker’s eyes with my...
“Many americans are seduced by the idea that piecemeal voluntary efforts can...”
– Democratizing American Philanthropy - Christine Ahn (via whereisdrew)
anarcho-garbage:
grundmc:
“Once a people have committed (or enslaved) themselves to a growth economy, they’ve pretty much committed themselves to a perpetual war economy, because in order to maintain this growth, they will have to continue to colonize an ever-wider swath of the planet and exploit its inhabitants. I’m sure you can see the problem this presents on a finite planet. But in the...
I giggle when I compare the gifts on my Amazon wishlist that I got for Christmas, versus the ones that I didn’t.
Received: Smithsonian/Folkways - Mountain Music of Kentucky
A book on sustainable/DIY homemaking
Not Received: Books on civ collapse/civ study/transitioning from oil economy to local economy
bell hooks books
books on gender studies
books on Christian anarchism/history of...
f-e-r-a-l asked: I grew up drinking this all the time. it's the only one my mom ever made, or needed to make.
Re: Different types of milk.
Jon: “Do almonds and soy beans even have nipples?”
“Does anyone have Veggie Wash? It gets the pesticides off of fruit so you don’t necessarily have to buy organic.” - a housemate
…… I have the feeling that’s not the only reason you buy organic.
Support of farmers, anyone? Refusing to support agricultural monsters? I don’t know.
College is one of America's worst investments →
nwbtcw:
theweekmagazine:
At least that’s what a new study suggests. The study found that nearly half of students make “no significant gains in learning” in their first two years on campus, and that they spend 50 percent less time studying than their 1970s and 1980s counterparts.
This is “depressing,” but hardly “shocking,” says Matt Kiebus in Death + Taxes. Anyone who has spent time on a...
How You Shop When You Are Poor
elfstaranymore:
I had to put this behind a cut because it’s way long for Tumblr, but I really hope you’ll read it because I think it’s a very important post.
I started discussing this a little bit here, but I wanted to expand on the idea of how shopping on a very tight budget works, because obviously some people have no idea. I will add the caveat that this is how shopping was done in my...
“Did Eve come out of Adam, or did Adam come out of Eve?….In some stunning...”
– Barbara Seaman (Free and Female: The Sex Life of the Contemporary Woman, 1972)
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via bibliofeminista)
Upsettingly relevant.
(via zurik)
“When you watch television, the experience is that of never getting down to...”
– Feminism Is the Shit:
—Jerry Mander, Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros
“There are terrorists in this country, and they’re all on the far fucking right.”
– Josh, upon hearing of Congresswoman Giffords being shot. (via whatisanipomoea)
no, duh, that’s not terrorism. that’s patriotism. (via greenstate)
Pascal's Wager of the Environmentalist Movement
If you erroneously believe in climate change and work to combat it, you lose nothing, whereas if you correctly believe in climate change and work to combat it, you gain everything (a healthy landbase and thus a sustainable and healthy life for you and everyone else). But if you correctly disbelieve in climate change and do not work to combat it, you gain nothing (and continue to immiserate the...
today! i looked up a bunch of stuff on how to pack for a semester abroad. it’s a daunting task.
i thought back to my summer-long roadtrip a year or two back and decided i would use that as a guide… but then i remembered that i only wore about three things the whole time. i probably shouldn’t do that when i’m trying to make friends and impress professors.
i’m...
introtoclasswar:
We are anarcho-syndicalists on the shop floor, green anarchists in the woods, social anarchists in our communities, individualists when you catch us alone, anarcho-communists when there’s something to share, insurrectionists when we strike a blow.
every mountain laid low,
every valley up shall grow.
Fuck Yeah, Christian Radicalism!: A segment of... →
A pretty lengthy excerpt from Anarchy and Christianity, but still worth a read - bear with it and your mind will be rewarded (the book itself is pretty short… so maybe you should get yourself a copy). (Edit: Updated title, as it is of course ‘Anarchy’ not ‘Anarchism’) -FYCR (via …