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rachelunleashed: snafubar: tangamarine: apoptasy: (via...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:00:18 -0700

rachelunleashed: snafubar: tangamarine: apoptasy: (via bananja)

It really bothers me when people get super upset about rights violations or activist judges or the desecration of our Constitution...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:15:09 -0700

robot-heart-politics:

…and the only reason they are doing so is because they don’t have a clue about what our Constitution actually says about anything. So you have to explain to them things that they should have learned in a social studies or history class at some point, like “there is nothing in the Constitution that says only Christians can choose where to build their religious buildings” or “the Constitution created three branches of government for a reason, not just because they think a group of dudes (and dudettes) in black robes is awesome.” And for the record, I went to a crappy public school in the backwoods of Texas, so if I learned this in school, then I know the vast majority of people in this country did, too, so there’s not really an excuse for so many people being so ignorant.

Oh, and then when these people do find out about some part of the Constitution they don’t like (everything but the 2nd and 10th amendment, usually, but more specifically the 14th amendment), they’re suddenly all like, “Yeah, but that’s not AMURRIKA, and that’s not what the founders intended [even if that is exactly what the founders intended] so we should just get rid of it because it’s not pro-white Christians.”

The Constitution and Founding Fathers: only relevant or important when they can be used to prove that white Christians have the right to fuck over everyone else. To be disregarded when the documents/people prove to contain rules or beliefs that are contradictory to those of Real Amurrikans.

erickd: evangotlib:randigirl:caro: How You Will Get Hurt At...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:06:06 -0700

erickd:

evangotlib:randigirl:caro:

How You Will Get Hurt At Burning Man

Good does the best infographics. Kudos to Hyperakt

interesting.

Be safe out there on the playa people!

Why Does This Matter?

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:01:51 -0700

So I’ve noticed this thing in the news AGAIN. As if it wasn’t figured out years ago or something. Some kind of stupid hate machine churning out the same crap and everyone is eating it as if it were new crap. President Obama is not, nor was he ever, a Muslim. But the real problem I have with this whole thing is, so-fucking-what if he was Muslim? There is nothing more wrong with someone because they are Muslim. No more wrong than someone being a Christian or a Scientologist or a Mormon. So relax your sphincters America. Can we please move on to more important issues now?

(via juliasegal) Some days it’s like this.

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:31:21 -0700

(via juliasegal)

Some days it’s like this.

A Moment To Think: “Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center,...

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:46:47 -0700

A Moment To Think: “Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center,...:

“Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question – should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?”

—Michael Bloomberg

I have smart friends.

notentirely: it’s been about 3 years since i’ve posted a lolcat...

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:38:45 -0700

notentirely:

it’s been about 3 years since i’ve posted a lolcat here… this one needed a place on my dash.

Well played B, well played.

notentirely:loveyourchaos:© Pockets1 beautious

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:00:17 -0700

notentirely:loveyourchaos:© Pockets1

beautious

Judge Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents, Gay-Marriage Ban Overturned

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:38:36 -0700

Judge Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents, Gay-Marriage Ban Overturned:

A little bit of humanity is restored.

A Softer World: 580

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:00:01 -0700

A Softer World: 580

(via juliasegal) I love a good pun.

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:27:54 -0700

(via juliasegal)

I love a good pun.

notentirely: amen. mikehudack:startupquote

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:17:28 -0700

notentirely:

amen.

mikehudack:startupquote

notentirely: yes. mocus: 50 Best Craft Brewers in AmericaA...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:10:01 -0700

notentirely:

yes.

mocus: 50 Best Craft Brewers in America
A much needed Map!

http://www.francescamclin.com/blog/50-best-craft-brewers-in-america/

ilovecharts: THIS MAP IS IMPORTANT! Also, road trip anyone (serious question)?

heroicdestinysquad: save for future vacation reference. also surly is far more delicious and wonderful than summit.

I love how many there are in California.

Tarp Surfing

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:31:41 -0700

Tarp Surfing

A Softer World: 579

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:01:46 -0700

A Softer World: 579

Lightning Over Athens

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:03 -0700

Lightning Over Athens:

Incredible.

one more thing about the teabaggers

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:20:32 -0700

notentirely:

yeah, what sweetbee said…

sweetbee: There’s something particularly offensive about an overwhelmingly white (and predominately male) political movement comparing our country’s first African American president with Hitler. Hitler’s name has become synonymous with evil but his was a particular brand of evil in which one man and his minions were able to convince the masses that minorities (not just Jews but Romanis, homosexuals, Soviets, non-Europeans, the disabled, …) were the root of all their problems and needed to be systematically eliminated. Evoking the name of a man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands because you think taxes are too high goes beyond the realm of being offensive and ignorant and enters a rather more dangerous territory.

"Grief comes from any undelivered emotional communication."

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:41:31 -0700

“Grief comes from any undelivered emotional communication.”

- DJ Wolfie

I love the stuff people post on Cragislist. I caught this...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:53:25 -0700

I love the stuff people post on Cragislist. I caught this through Google Reader looking for editing work in LA.

"I have tried to explain The Burning Man to many people, but have never been as eloquent or accurate..."

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:34:09 -0700

“

I have tried to explain The Burning Man to many people, but have never been as eloquent or accurate as this wonderful quote:

‘In such circumstances the mind is influenced through the body. Though your mouth glows, and your skin is parched, yet you feel no languor,- the effect of dry heat; your lungs are lightened, your sight brightens, your memory recovers its tone, and your spirits become exuberant. Your fancy and imagination are powerfully aroused, and the wildness and siblimity of the scenes around you, stir up all the energies in your soul, whether exertion, danger, or strife. Your morale improves; you become frank and cordial, hospitable and single-minded; the hypocritical politeness and the slavery of Civilization are left behind you. Your senses are quickened; they require no stimulants but air and exercise; in the desert spriritous liquors excite only disgust.

There is a keen enjoyment in mere animal existence. The sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food; the sand is softer than a bed of down, and the purity of the air suddenly puts flight a dire cohort of diseases.

Here Nature returns to Man, however unworthily he has treated her, and, believe me, when once your tastes have conformed to the tranquility of such travel, you will suffer real pain in returning to the turmoil of civilization. You will anticipate the bustle and confusion of artificial life, its luxuries and its false pleasures, with repugnance. Depressed in spirits, you will for a time after your return feel incapable of mental or bodily exertion. The air of the Cities will suffocate you, and the careworn and cadaverous countenances of citizens will haunt you like a vision of judgement.’

Source: Personal journal entry of Richard Burton during his Pilgrimage to Meccah and Medinah circa 1853. From ‘The Life of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton’ by Isabel Burton, published in 1893

”