April 2011
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“Recently a campaign has been started in Greece and now in Ireland as well for...”
– Ireland, Greece and Portugal should Default
March 2011
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“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of...”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (via zeitgeistmovement)
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“Gramsci took sides and he hated those who didn’t. Santucci is quite clear on...”
– http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2011/281
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“The triumph of crony capitalism occurred on October 3rd, 2008. The event was the...”
– “In the post-TARP world, there remain no fiscal rules at all.”
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Watch
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Go Ask Yer Grammar: Semicolons →
fuckyeahgrammarquestions:
The semicolon is on its deathbed, Forgotten by writers both young and old. Its future is bleak in the years ahead If grammar rules we no longer uphold. This tragedy comes through no single cause, But rather through years of willful neglect. There’s no better way to split clause from clause, So…
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Allie in Wonderland: "You can't learn shit at... →
beautifulwelshvowels:
Sidney Mintz was the guest lecturer for my Anthropology class today. That man is amazing. He’s 88 years old but you would never know it. He’s totally brilliant and amusing. He didn’t just come in with a prepared lecture he interacted with the class cracking jokes with lighting fast wit. Someone…
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“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”
– Ruth Benedict (via chelseamcsexy)
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“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to...”
– Paulo Coelho (via graphicalundertones)
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rhizomatica asked: Do you follow people who follow you?
What really happened? →
“A riot,” said martin Luther King Jr, “is the language of the unheard.” There are an awful lot of unheard voices in this country. What differentiates the rioters in Picadilly and Oxford Circus from the rally attendees in Hyde Park is not the fact that the latter are “real” protestors and the former merely “anarchists” (still an unthinking synonym for...
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Sexypink: Graphic Design;: Darren Cheewah →
sexypinkon:
Self, self portrait and mural painting all by Darren Cheewah (C)
Cheewah (C)
When I first saw this graphic image by Cheewah, my first thought beside finding it very funny, was that he was dead on regarding all that The Bookmann and I had written and discussed about the Trinidad…
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Sexypink: ART HISTORY |/\| Michel Jean Cazabon →
sexypinkon:
ART HISTORY |/\| Michel Jean Cazabon
Cazabon (C)
B 1813 - D 1888
Michel Jean Cazabon or as he was also known, Jean Michael Cazabon was born of French parentage in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad on September 20, 1813 on Corynth Estate, North Naparima, on the outskirts of San Fernando. He was the youngest of 4 children. His parents, owners of a sugar plantation, were “free coloured”...
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WatchThe CIA’s invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars.
operation farmville! lol!
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via suchaloudmind)
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“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize,...”
– Audre Lorde (via musicologist012)
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“A great mass of humanitarian social media addicts and self-styled cyberactivists...”
– The Libyan Revolution is Dead: Notes for an Autopsy
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“The greatest lie of capitalism is perhaps its naturalisation – the idea that it...”
– Zizek (via mxmlsm)
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An Interview with Albert Bailey (master... →
archithesis:
Wire Bending is the heart and backbone of Trinidad carnival costume making. Unlike carnivals in Brazil and New Orleans that consist predominately of large floats, Trinidad’s carnival costumes are carried by the masquerader. Wire bending is not a simple procedure and the costumes are not as heavy as they may seem. It takes a great amount of ingenuity and skill to create the frames of...
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What Bilingual Babies Reveal About the Brain →
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most...
parkstepp:
“Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
understandtheuniverse
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“Teaching, after all, is not only community service, it is a project of social...”
– Rick Ayers, in a letter to his nephew who is an Oakland teacher that received a pink slip lay off notice, on why we persist in teaching. (via mswormwood)
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Looking for horn (And, no, it’s not what you...
Something i wrote a good while back
Issue No. 68 - July/August 2004
LOOKING FOR HORN
The culture of a place — the way its people think about and do things — reveals itself in many ways. Sometimes like a silent language, or a secret handshake known only to those born into it; sometimes noisily, but no less mysterious to outsiders. Take driving, for instance: the style, manners, and general...
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“If male domination is natural, based on biological imperatives, why, asks...”
– Michael Kimmel (via mustardsweet, femonster) (via inherkissitastetherevolution) (via politicallyreligious) (via damnitdisney) (via lostgrrrls) (via godspeedtesla)
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The great property swindle
“When home ownership became endemic, two things happened. First, the banks, highly monopolistic institutions with a profound lack of understanding of money, as they recently demonstrated, commoditised and monetised the most basic human need for shelter: our homes. But then those of us who managed to buy a home and hold on to it finally had a stake in the capitalist system. This was...
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