March 2012
6 posts
“In the face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the...”
– Jack London, 1906
“I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled,...”
– Mark Twain, on American and Western imperialism before the turn of the last century (via A People’s History of the United States)
February 2012
35 posts
Socialism - The utopian idea that human action is...
zedweiller:
baseballlibertarian:
If you remove all private property, profits, and the means of production you’ll remove all incentive to work, produce, and thrive.
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
libertarianism - the notion that human existence is accurately reducible to the needs and wants of those who are already powerful and wealthy, and that some kind of non-coercive paradise will...
Workers in factory occupation claim victory →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
About 60 employees of a Chicago window factory are claiming victory after an 11-hour occupation of the plant.
Their union, the United Electrical Workers, says it reached a deal Friday morning with the plant’s owner, California-based Serious Energy, Inc.
The deal, according to the union, requires the company to suspend plans to close the factory immediately. Instead the...
“Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the poeple, by the...”
– Mary Ellen Lease, in 1890, via Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. (Why do we say “no longer” as if it ever wasn’t this way?)
“We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him but we didn’t need a court order to...”
– Bush’s CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden re: the Obama Administration’s assassination of Awlaki (via Glenn Greenwald). “Repulsive liberal hypocrisy” indeed.
The obsession over women not being “thing enough” and the multitude of consequences of this, including anorexia, cannot be solved by becoming obsessed over women being “too thin.” Neither case is license for scandalous gossip or judgement from peers.
Me: Pierre-Paul is having a great game.
April: I hope someone is telling his [blind] father!
January 2012
12 posts
“Just as the least adequate child in a family can become more impaired when he...”
– Murray Bowen, via Pinderhughes (Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice)
