January 2012
3 posts
Girl at work: “i’m gonna go watch how I met your mother.” Me: “How about we go watch how I make you a mother?”
Ihop finally switched music stations, after years of me being forced to listen to the same exact playlist every shift. New one is 90’s. Yes.
i think i put more money into my bicycle than anything else. Dumb.
December 2011
6 posts
State of Nature →
First of all, the transcontinental railroads were a poor use of capital. There simply wasn’t enough transcontinental traffic to warrant any transcontinental railroads, let alone so many. Even in the late nineteenth century, it was cheaper to send goods by steamship (with an overland journey in Panama). The railroads only survive because the Pacific Mail was a “lazy and corrupt” company. The...
Trash plus trash equals trash flavored trash.
“Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22 (via hitch-22)
7 tags
September 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
Wait, isn't the joke still on us? We are in...
April 2011
3 posts
replace/discard
the people you counted as friends that wrote you off, discarded you, replaced you..those people aren’t the ones who matter. you only need the friends that are with you through everything, no matter what the circumstances. we live in a culture and society that has embraced consumerism to the point that it has infected the way some people interact with others, using them and discarding when they...
January 2011
10 posts
“He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that...”
– William Drummond (via ageofreason)
“My father got sick when I was 22… and I was poor. And my father had an ulcer,...”
– CHRIS ROCK, responding to host Bill Maher asking if he ever went to the emergency room as his primary healthcare provider, on Real Time (via inothernews) (via magulartheimpalor) (via allyourlovearebelongtome) (via gertymac)
Reblog for all those dumbfucks who parade about announcing the US has the...
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science fiction author (1920-1992)
THIS. THIS x 1,000,000
(via greenstate)
steveyes asked: http://www.youtube.com/user/sgreatorex22?feature=mhum
“I feed the poor, I’m called a saint. I ask why the poor have no food, I’m called...”
– Dom Helder Camara (via corruptpolitics)
always reblog this one
(via greenstate)
December 2010
22 posts
“When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime,...”
– Joachim Prinz (via azspot)
this account was messing up so i made a new one. →
Learning from Finland →
The secret of Finnish educational success is that in the 20th century Finns studied and emulated such advanced nations as Sweden, Germany, and the United States. Finns adopted some education policies from elsewhere but also avoided mistakes made by these leading education performers.
What could the United States learn from the Finns? First, reconsider those policies that advocate choice and...
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Robert Bowman (via azspot)
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Robert Bowman (via azspot)
perfectly said.
“Coming back to capitalism is like walking into a brick wall. It’s like being...”
– Aurora Levins Morales from Shock.
(via theredtree, deltafoxtrot)
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Kalama Sutta, The Buddha (via saaraeliisavaris)
“If the Dems were really concerned about the middle-class they would be doing the...”
– The Disputed Truth (via azspot)
“Creativity is not something just for “creatives”—we all have given being to some...”
– Culture Making (via azspot)
love my best friend.
November 2010
130 posts
can you see this?
