February 2012
58 posts
“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute...”
– Guy de Maupassant, French writer (1850-1893)
“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– From Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy
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A New Dark Age →
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.
She confessed that she was now “scared to death” by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of the western...
“Colonialism began with conquest and is today maintained by a settler...”
– Haunani-Kay Trask, from “The Color of Violence” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
“I think that a lot of radical environmentalists have it backwards. This idea...”
– Santorum criticizes ‘radical environmentalists’
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“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life....”
– Caitlin Moran (via apyrrhicvictory)
Social Uprooting: think-progress: Do you hear the... →
think-progress:
Do you hear the steady drumbeat of war with Iran?
Rep. Keith Ellison (R-MN) does, and asks lawmakers to sign onto a letter urging the president not to start war with Iran.
If you listen to the rhetoric around Washington and the Nation, Mr. Speaker, it is literally…
“Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.”
– Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher (1930-2004)
“Well I know […] that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as...”
– György Lukács, Record of a Life: An Autobiographical Sketch (via grandejouissance)
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent...”
– Charles Darwin (via hasty-g)
Happy Darwin Day! ;)
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.
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YES YES YES THIS THIS THIS
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I want this emblazoned on my forehead for all of the American entitlement people out there.
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NEW STUDY: "Birth and abortion rates among U.S....
solitaryforager:
The teen abortion rate in 2008 dropped to the lowest rate seen since 1972 at 17.8 per 1,000 teen girls and women, the analysis found, and was down 59 percent from 1988 when the abortion rate peaked at 43.5 per 1,000 teen women.
Catholic Church: your argument is invalid.
Anonymous asked: i’d bet you’d say that Columbus...
socialistexan:
digatisdi:
yoisthisracist:
Yo, I say all kinds of true shit, don’t even worry about it.
In what universe was Columbus not racist?
Wait, people think that Columbus wasn’t racist?
