ELIZABETH WARREN FOR EVERYTHING.
Elizabeth Warren on Ron Paul and taking money out of government: “The problem is, we will have no future. But think about this! No one is going to build bridges on their own. No one is going to build roads, no one is going to build public education, public universities, public schools. No one is going to invest in the kind of basic research that flings off thousands of things that private industry can do with it. Government is what we do together. Government is the part that lets us come together and build the basic conditions: the infrastructure, the education, the research. The basic pieces together that let us build a future for ourselves and for our kids.”
I was going to talk about the SOTU, but I decided to post a picture of my new puppy Seamus instead.
You’re welcome?
Yup. Exactly.
(P.S. I swear this man does not age.)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) vs. Parks and Recreation (2012)
CONGRATULATIONS Peter Dinklage!
Think you might be into reading comic books? Many women will never find out, because the obstacles of men gawking and acting like assholes outweigh the long-term rewards of finding some titles to get into. Want to get into an atheist forum online? Be prepared to told in many ways, over and over, that you’re not wanted as anything but a sucking-and-fucking machine. A lot of men tell women in these situations to suck it up and just do it, but that seriously misunderstands human nature. We want to do these things—-go record shopping, buy comics, join forums—-for the same reason men do, to have fun. If it’s not fun, we’re not going to do it. The men who harass women understand this perfectly well, which is why they do it. They want theirs to be male-only spaces, and use harassment as a tool to get that.
“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.”
- Cornel West
(Source: thesubversivesound, via liberal-lad)
(Source: feministryangosling)
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
-In Memory of W.B. Yeats
