December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
August 2011
6 posts
“I wrote and drank at night. During the day I hung around the L.A. Public Library...”
– Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 (Uncollected Stories/Essays 1) - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
somebody
haxxored my box.
good night, all
June 2011
2 posts
“Our consumerist culture has co-opted many churches, creating a mall-like...”
– Contemporary Music: The Cultural Medium and the Christian Message (via azspot)
May 2011
11 posts
“Look, what’s happening is we’re making the earth a more dynamic and violent...”
– Bill McKibben (via azspot)
“It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via azspot)
“Though separated from his product, man is more and more, and ever more...”
– The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
(via loeuvre-au-noir)
The Spanish Revolution of 2011. The end of some... →
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are...”
– Emma Goldman, “What Is Patriotism?” (via cuntymint)
Do not let the nationalistic and jingoistic...
janedoe225:
Manufacturing Consent
actually, everyone watch War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, Sean Penn narrates.
great great documentary.
henrycharlesbukowski:
I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience.
there is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.
women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge...
April 2011
10 posts
“Modern man wants everything to fit within his own perspective and resents being...”
– Dionysios Farasiotis (via azspot)
Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid... →
janedoe225:
mohandasgandhi:
thenoobyorker:
vruz:
vruz: KA-BOOM, GOP and other assorted demi-libertarians in non-racist disguise. (I take issue with the term ‘illegal’ in the headline, but that’s another story)
While GE - which earned a whopping $14 billion last year - is reported to have paid nothing, nada, zero in taxes (GE denies it), the undocumented paid billions in state and...
“There has been a decline in social capital since the middle of the 1960s across...”
– The Awful Revolution: Is Neoliberalism a Public Health Risk? (via azspot)
“Scandalous as it may sound to the ears of Republicans schooled in Reaganomics,...”
– Francis Fukuyama (via azspot)
“Ayn Rand, of course, was a kind of politicized L. Ron Hubbard—a...”
– The GOP’s War on the Poor (via azspot)
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized...”
– Arthur Evans, quoted by Derrick Jensen in Walking on Water, p. 85 (via mikroblogolas)
“Did you know that corporate taxes used to account for roughly 30% of revenue...”
– Thom Hartmann (via azspot)
“Authenticity, as a mode of existence, is a struggle against received truths,...”
– more Joshua Glenn (via colinbrineman)
March 2011
23 posts
“The technology-driven utopia envisioned by our predecessors was a pipe dream....”
– (via personalinfamy)
“They’re fucking gross, man. Look, I love beautiful girls too. I think everyone...”
– Amy Poehler on American Apparel (via tulletulle)
i love you amy poehler
(via deadendzenith)
Ten Companies Avoiding Taxes →
ghettomanifesto:
Sanders renewed his call for shared sacrifice after it was reported that General Electric and other major corporations paid no U.S. taxes after posting huge profits. Sanders said it is grossly unfair for congressional Republicans to propose major cuts to Head Start, Pell Grants, the Social Security Administration, nutrition grants for pregnant low-income women and the...
“In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the...”
– Karl Marx, in his 1867 preface to the first German edition of Capital, vol. 1.
This passage, I feel, accurately (dialectically, “on its head”) may describe the etiology of the “culture wars”: knowing full well that poor and middle class people care less existentially for their pittance of property...
“Modern science is characterized by its ever-increasing specialization,...”
– Ludwig Von Bertalanffy- in General Systems Theory.
“A crisis occurs sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means...”
– Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (via thoughtflight)
“I like to engage in astral perversion, and my fondness is to be sucked off by...”
– Ed Sanders, 1968. (poet, also singer for The Fugs). (via pejorativedysfunction)
“The U.S. used to have a pretty efficient electrical rail system. You used to be...”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot)