February 2012
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“So what’s wrong? In short, the common thread I see throughout all the failures...”
– Michael Wesch - Why Good Classes Fail
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The EU & Greece: A capitalism that has persuaded... →
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“Americans eat oysters but not snails. The French eat snails but not locusts. The...”
– Ian Robertson, Sociology [1987], pg.67
The diversity of our languages, customs, and expressive behaviors confirms that much of our behavior is socially programmed, not hardwired.
(via shizumataka)
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Chris Hedges turns on OWS with divisive slurs. Gramsci says told you so…
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At Conservative Conference, Retired Police Officer...
Yesterday at CPAC, the conservative convention held this week in Washington D.C., Republic Report ran into retired police officer and anti-drug war activist Howard Wooldridge. We were interested in his take on the role of money in politics in the government’s crusade against marijuana. He explained that cynical lobbyists, who place their clients interests over America, have perpetuated the cycle...
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“The riots bothered me a great deal, on two counts. First, nothing really has...”
– Stuart Hall
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Latin American Leaders Condemn US Drug Policy →
letterstomycountry:
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With transit countries facing some of the highest homicide rates in the world, so great is the frustration that the leaders are demanding that the United States and Europe consider steps toward legalization if they do not curb their appetite for drugs.
Drug use has not meaningfully declined at any time in the recent past, or at any time over the course of the...
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“By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can...”
– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (via chasingsunsetsandjustice)
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“the area of suitable sedimentary formations in the region of continental shelf...”
– IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin July 1994
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
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“I am reminded of an apocryphal story about the American newspaperman who went to...”
– Mayr, E., in Mead, M., T. Dobzhansky et al., eds., Science and the Concept of Race (New York, 1967), p. 104.
Why economic inequality leads to collapse →
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The Story of a Suicide →
itsjustsex:
Two college roommates, a webcam, and a tragedy. By Ian Parker
If anything can take me out of my posting rut, it’s this article from The New Yorker. Ian Parker brings to light many things related to the Tyler Clementi suicide case and his roommate Dharun Ravi in particular. While I was never really sure what kind of person Ravi was, this article certainly confirms he is an asshole....
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“When democratic politics can no longer shape the discussion about how we should...”
– Mouffe 2002
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“I think that anthropology (and the other social sciences) are the ideological...”
– Esther Newton (1940~), Mother Camp (via literary-ethnography)
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“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left...”
– Margaret Mead (via gypsytreasures)
Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books →
Bestselling Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is joining in with a new promotion on the notorious file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, and calling on “pirates of the world” to “unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written”.
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“Either we have hope within us or we do not. It is a dimension of the soul and is...”
– Web of Hope. Resurgence 219, July/August 2003: quoting Havel in 1990 writing