January 2011
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare...”
– Bill Watterson (via calvinnhobbes)
Bill Watterson, one of the best people ever.
(via seedsot)
Sady Doyle: #DearJohn: Prep Time →
sadydoyle:
Okay. So, for those unaware of context, here is what is going on. In the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which is reprehensible on its surface, there’s a special surprise clause that seeks to limit the definition of rape and incest. In order to qualify for the exception to rape and incest…
“Thinking for yourself means finding yourself, finding your own reality. Here’s...”
– Solitude and Leadership, a speech delivered to West Point Military Academy by William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar (via somethingchanged)
The NBA and the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness |... →
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
lunokhod:
“I find it funny how universal healthcare is big government gone bad, but somehow...”
– Make a donation to Planned Parenthood « Margaret and Helen
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake.”
– Ernest Hemmingway (via whereisthecoool)
“It is difficult enough to be injured or gravely ill. To add to this the burden...”
– A Fighting Spirit Won’t Save Your Life - NYTimes.com
“A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without...”
– The Happiness Project: “A Lifetime Can Well Be Spent Correcting and Improving One’s Own Faults Without Bothering About Others.”
“Not all battles are worth fighting forever, even if you’ve been attached...”
– Profound thought of… (1)
Two churches located across the street from each...
carniesandchampagne:
Catholics FTW.
free dog soul with conversion!
“Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t...”
– John Green (via abodycomingthroughtherye)
deadlift poetry: Cadaver, Speak →
deadliftpoetry:
The body—before they opened me—the darkest dark
must live in there. Where color is wasted Because I hear them look: bright green of gallbladder, shocked yellow fat, acreage flat out under skin. To think I brought this on myself.
No blood in the lab. No longer my blood, paste flaking brown to the…
“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
This x1000. Being on guard a majority of the time is exhausting.
(via reclusiveobscenities)
I know a lot of girls who don’t explicitly live in fear of rape or...
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, whose birthday is today. In his honor, take out some books by or about him from NYPL. (via nypl)
“I find myself, on days like this, casting about for someone to blame… I blame...”
– JIMMY SMITS, as Matt Santos, from the “Undecideds” episode of The West Wing.
A beautiful moment in television; an enduring message.
(via inothernews)
“But after passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging...”
– FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » The Martin Luther King You Still Don’t See on TV
