December 2011
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myownairport:
the new year
death cab for cutie
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“Make for yourself a world you can believe in.
It sounds simple, I know. But...”
– if the aging magician should begin to believe
jonathan safran foer
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John Cage & Sylvano Bussotti-In a Landscape...
Keeping sane.: Worse, a huge number of immigrants... →
Worse, a huge number of immigrants in New York have no representation at all. Although poor defendants in criminal courts are entitled to court-appointed lawyers, people in immigration courts are not. Over all, immigrants appeared in court without a lawyer in nearly 15,000 cases (27 percent of…
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– “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t...
“Why have we created, maintained, and perpetuated an education system that...”
– — excerpted from “Christmas Miracle 2011: Poverty Matters!”
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Holidays In The Future
canisfamiliaris:
This is true for day laborers and other working class humans, too:
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“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“I live alone, entirely alone. I never speak to anyone, never; I receive nothing,...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée (via funeral)
A favorite book.
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Cultural Genocide in Lake County, CA »... →
“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy,...”
– Aldous Huxley (via human-voices)
How Ayn Rand Helped Make the U.S. a Selfish,... →
canisfamiliaris:
Thanks in part to Rand, the United States is one of the most uncaring nations in the industrialized world.
