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Thanksgiving gluttony here I come.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:33:44 -0500

Thanksgiving gluttony here I come.

The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:27:53 -0500

The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia

"In the last stage, fuck a healthy woman daily. This cured my Father."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:25:47 -0500

“In the last stage, fuck a healthy woman daily. This cured my Father.”

- John Wesley: Origins of Natural Medicine - VIA Quackometer

Mullenweg: 10 blogs to make you think

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:20:27 -0500

Mullenweg: 10 blogs to make you think:

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"The very basis of the Judeo-Christian code is injustice, the scapegoat system. The scapegoat..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:05:31 -0500

“The very basis of the Judeo-Christian code is injustice, the scapegoat system. The scapegoat sacrifice runs all through the Old Testament, then it reaches its height in the New Testament with the notion of the Martyred Redeemer. How can justice possibly be served by loading your sins on another? Whether it be a lamb having its throat cut ritually, or a Messiah nailed to a cross and “dying for your sins”. Somebody should tell all of Yahweh’s followers, Jews and Christians, that there is no such thing as a free lunch.”

- Robert Heinlein, from Job: A Comedy of Justice (via ericmortensen) (via vruz)

Heinlein is right on the money. This is a good summary of the failings of the philosophical core of the first two Abrahamic religions.

clembastow: (via robot-heart) (via shashashaa)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:47:27 -0500

clembastow:

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robot-heart-politics: catbus:notthatkindagay: Don’t Make My...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:09:15 -0500

robot-heart-politics:

catbus:notthatkindagay:

Don’t Make My Decisions—Make Hers

robot-heart-politics: abcsoupdot: Clay Jones via...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:05:37 -0500

robot-heart-politics:

abcsoupdot:

Clay Jones via thedailywhat

"People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:26 -0500

“People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street. Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US. The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a Republican version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies… When we were promised change, we weren’t thinking that we give a dollar and get back two cents.””

- Dennis Kucinich (via afghanibanani) (via opparaics) (via robot-heart-politics)

retropolitics: Ve Day In Nyc: Two million people gathered in...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:15:39 -0500

retropolitics:

Ve Day In Nyc: Two million people gathered in Times Square to celebrate the end of the war in Europe. Location: New York, NY, US. Date taken: May 07, 1945. Photographer: Herbert Gehr (via)

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:39:37 -0500

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.”

- Thomas Jefferson (via azspot)

Can you imagine Thomas Jefferson if he’d been on the internet?

(via robot-heart-politics)

vruz: Dear Mr Beck [PDF, 4 Mb download] h/t Groklaw

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:34:10 -0500

vruz:

Dear Mr Beck [PDF, 4 Mb download]

h/t Groklaw

"I don’t care where my employees work from. Or how they work. I don’t care where they live or eat or..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:02:38 -0500

“I don’t care where my employees work from. Or how they work. I don’t care where they live or eat or about any of their hobbies. I only care that they get stuff done. I also don’t care about gender. I don’t care about highways or bridges. Employees who use bridges have learned not to talk about bridges with me. I don’t care.”

- Jason Fried (via friedisms) (via vruz)

unburyingthelead: BILL MOYERS: Andrew J. Bacevich — whom you know and have quoted; was at this...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:34:42 -0500

unburyingthelead:

BILL MOYERS: Andrew J. Bacevich — whom you know and have quoted; was at this table — wrote the book, THE LIMITS OF POWER, and has recently said, and reiterated the fact, that war is a permanent condition in American society today. Not only because there might be ready, steady fighting, but because of the accumulated cost. And all the money that’s being spent on preparing for the next episode. And he said that war has become a permanent condition of America. Do you agree with that?

GLENN GREENWALD: I absolutely agree with that. And I think it’s really the central political fact that Americans need to reexamine. And the reason for that is because it’s not just that wars cost an enormous amount of money and drain our resources. I mean, they do. I mean, the wars that we fight are being paid for by money that we borrow from China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and a variety of other countries.

It’s not just that in enormous numbers of people are killed — both our own citizens and the citizens of the country that we attack. That’s also true. But if you look at countries throughout history that can be described — as ours should be described — as permanent war-fighting states, then you see that the character of the country changes in all sorts of radical and fundamental ways.

When you’re fighting a war, it means that the government has claims to far more power than it does when wars aren’t being fought. The executive branch has all kinds of claims to unfettered and unchecked power. There are secrecy justifications that are made constantly and are accepted in the name of war that allow the government to exist in a very opaque fashion.

So, beyond all the moral cost and the financial cost and the human cost of endless war — which are, by themselves, sufficient to make this endless war posture something that’s horrible — it changes the nature of what kind of country we are. And I think more than anything that’s the debate that’s missing. What is it doing to the United States to say that we’re going to devote as our primary activity our resources to being a warrior state. A state that fights wars permanently?

Moyers interviews Greenwald, logic ensues

copycats: Creep by Ingrid Michaelson originally by Radiohead...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:43:44 -0400

copycats:

Creep by Ingrid Michaelson
originally by Radiohead
(posted by liezlwashere)

(via lickystickypickyme)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:16:15 -0400

(via lickystickypickyme)

turnofthecentury: akubizone:The Laboratory of Satan: Half of a...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:24:32 -0400

turnofthecentury:

akubizone:The Laboratory of Satan: Half of a stereoscopic french devil tissue view (diablerie) from the 1870s.

These tissue views are made of three layers. First is the ‘normal’ albumen photographic paper. Second is a painted tissue behind the photograph. Third is a white protection tissue. If you hold the picture against a light, the colors come through. The glowing eyes of the skulls are pinpricked and labeled with a red translucent material.

Happy Halloween!

turnofthecentury: billyjane:A Journey Round My Skull:18 Adolf...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:24:13 -0400

turnofthecentury:

billyjane:A Journey Round My Skull:18 Adolf Vogel, woodcut, Der Orchideengarten, 1919, issue 9

Happy Halloween!

Nate Frizzell and his strange animal people.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:08:31 -0400

Nate Frizzell and his strange animal people.

williac: thehandsomemess: (via papertissue)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:43:37 -0400

williac:

thehandsomemess:

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