zen and sin
March 2011
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So, to wrap up: rather than bring the highest marginal tax rate back to what it was in the 1990’s, we need to bring teachers’ abilities to negotiate their own livelihood to the 1890’s.
(Teachers,) I don’t know if you’ve been listening, but you’re destroying America. Look at you, with your chalk-stained irregular blouses from Loehmann’s, and your Hyundai with its ‘power steering’ and its ‘wind shield.’ I guess bugs hitting you in the face doesn’t cut it for ol’ Mr. Chips. Mr. Holland? Whoever the Dead Poets’ (Society) guy was?
Three months vacation every summer. Special textbooks with all the answers in them. And who outside of Google employees have both a cafeteria and a gymnasium at their workplace? Don’t think we don’t know about those shiny red apples you get day after day after day after day…The point is this: the greed that led you into the teaching profession has led to the corruption of it.
” —JON STEWART, doing his best impression of the Republican sentiment against teachers, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
“All I know about hate is that it couldn’t beat the love out of me.”
—from “Ashes,” Andrea Gibson
February 2011
“…I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
The only thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via 45mercystreet)
The only thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via 45mercystreet)
“Winter’s Bone, Rabbit Hole… How To Train Your Dragon. That’s disgusting.”
—James Franco (via chelldemort)
al jazeera: inside gaddafi's inner circle →
english.aljazeera.net
a must-read! glad someone finally did this. abdallah senussi’s blurb*:
Right hand man and brother-in-law to the Libyan leader - and director of Military Intelligence. The 61-year-old’s past history includes a suspected involvement in the Abu Selim prison massacre**. He was convicted in absentia for the 1989 bombing of UTA flight 772, in which 170 people died. He was also included in the UN’s travel ban.
*if you’ll remember, senussi was rumored to have been captured by protesters and rumors persist that he’s now dead by their hands… to which i say, here’s hoping.
**the link is mine.
“He himself wanted to die; when I sat at his bedside and said that we would try to get him better and that we hoped that he would then be spared this kind of despair, he said ‘La tristesse durera toujours’ (‘The sadness will last forever.’) I understand what he wanted to say with those words.”
—Theo van Gogh on his brother’s suicide. (via vincentvangogh-)
Pretty Vacant
Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
“More women than men discuss sexism, and it is not because we find the topic more fun, entertaining, or enjoyable than men. It is because sexism gets in the way of our freedom. I blog about sexism in geek culture not because it’s my passion, but because it gets in the way of my passions. My struggle against my marginalization is not my hobby.”
—If tech discussion was really about tech, it wouldn’t be sexist. - Geek Feminism Blog (via feministpizza)
