December 2010
19 posts
Dear Coke Talk: On new years eve. →
dearcoketalk:
What’s up with the collective disinterest in NYE this year? A shared coming of age for those claiming to be newly minted as mature? “It’s a recession, yo” (hardly seems to be the case with economic success to the few at all-time highs)?
It’s almost January, mid 60s and sunny (my half-hearted…
Because Fuck 2010.
Hero Of The Proletariat: "The Savage" Responds →
herooftheproletariat:
Heard back from my prison pen pal who has much better hand writing than I.
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Dear Blake,
Yo dude thank you, what you did for me was huge. It’s crazy that you brought up the point that rugby is not just a sport but also a brotherhood. When the guys here ask me about rugby I always tell them…
This is the point where you start a spin-off blog. Q&A with new...
Making nothing out of something: Aid Workers as... →
gatm:
Except for the fact that aid workers are the civilian fold of a military projection towards or in that country. Aid workers are legitimate targets in an insurgency. Any project those groups complete or have in progress is a victory for the West and America.
As such insurgent groups…
I was reacting specifically to your examples of Pakistan and Somalia. I agree with your argument...
I'm sorry...
If these reblogs are messing up and not crediting where they should. The tumblr Android app leaves much to be desired.
“I discovered that what’s really important for a creator isn’t what we vaguely...”
– Federico Fellini
Hip-hop, explained. In part.
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Robert Bowman (via azspot)
Realistically, attempts to do good have been opposed and fought just as readily as attempts to be violent. Aid workers in nations like Pakistan and Somalia have faced resistance - even violence - in their efforts. This is because local power brokers in those countries...
apsies: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus →
apsies:
Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or…
The best music streaming site around. →
Find the link that lets you use it in iTunes and then never listen to anything else ever again. It’s endless. There are next to no English language songs, get over it now. It’s all warm-Nation stuff, African, Carribean, Central/South American. So good.
(The link is the blinking thing)
“FBI Subpoenas Editor of Pro-Palestinian Electronic Intifada Website
The FBI has...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 22, 2010
This is just getting outright terrifying. subpoenas for editors, websites being shut completely down over copy right infringements, espionage charges for wikileaks, unending solitary confinement for whistle blowers, the latest net neutrality crap…so...
“Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement...”
– Ivan Illich | Deschooling Society, 1970 (via derica)
Futile.
Or; How I feel about trying to find a job in this economy.
Venezuela's Chavez to move into Gaddafi tent →
fyeahafrica:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is going to govern temporarily from a tent so that families made homeless by recent floods can take refuge in his office.
Mr Chavez said he would have a Bedouin tent given to him by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi put up in the garden of the presidential palace.
Twenty-five families are already living in the palace after losing their...
If the War in Iraq was a House Party →
Dude totally boils this shit down masterfully. If you are not quite sure what’s going on or the interested parties, this is for you.
It’s also hilarious if you do know what is going on.