May 2012
202 posts
When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she...
– Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America”
I recently read this book, and while several observations and statistics stuck out to me, this quote, on the last page, I believe really sums things up quite well.
(via lostgrrrls)
Forget the billionaire “job creators” — our...
32,000-Year-Old Plant Reborn From Ancient Fruit... →
Monsanto will soon patent the fruit
progressivefriends:
I want to taste the fruit!
Christ’s error – The founder of Christianity thought that there was nothing of...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via wrathofstylepoints)
I suppose what he means is that a sin, a deviation from a proscribed set of norms, is good in so far as it allows the sinner to overcome their previous self. A sin, is in essence, a catalyst for change.
(via in-the-midst-of-winter)
3. Every day, five U.S. soldiers attempt suicide, and fully 5 percent of the...
– 5 facts about the fallen to remember on Memorial Day | The Raw Story (via progressivefriends)
Robert Reich: True Patriotism →
robertreich:
True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going. Those who earn tens of millions of dollars a year but pay less than 14 percent of their incomes in taxes, and argue the rich should pay even less, are not true patriots. Those who defend…
In the West, we have various ways of dealing with this problem. We have no...
– Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (via fucking-atheist)
saltinesandsoup:
i think the human centipede taught us all a valuable lesson
if you let your kids wear crocs they’ll turn into german psycopaths that connect 3 people mouth to anus because he gets off on that kind of stuff
parents: why are you awake so early
me: who said i went to sleep
police: THIS IS THE POLICE! OPEN YOUR DOOR NOW!!!
me: not with that attitude
Every single time.
Actual lyrics: Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba (Here comes a lion, Father)
Me: NAAAAAAZEBWENYAMAKAKIPIKUKUU!!!!
un-creative:
all my friends went to sleep but i took like a three hour nap today so i’m not tired ;__;