if you have a free hour, watch this:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/13/noam_chomsky_on_the_global_economic

if you don't have a free hour, there's a transcript at the bottom.

if you are too cool for school:

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QUTD: "Schadenfreude: the largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate.” - Theodor Adorno ( Read more... )

QOTD: "From a spiritual perspective, love is always present. But to experience love requires us to step out of the hurry of measurable time - time as money - into a sense of slow time - time like honey, smooth and sweet. No wonder that the son who takes the extra time to pay attention to the life and situations around him - even though this slows ( Read more... )

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. - George Carlin

RIP you glorious bastard.

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time." - Mason Cooley ( Read more... )

Every so often, someone asks me why I have such hate in my heart for the president. Of course, I can always come up with some kind of cliched NO BLOOD FOR OIL! HURR-esque answer. Well, today I think I have found the perfect answer. George W Bush believes that he is both the yin and the yang. The positive and the negative. Chachi and Fonzie ( Read more... )

and she hasn't even left the country yet (I think). Her connection to Philly was cancelled, so she missed the flight to Paris. Baby, if you read this, make sure that you bitch until they put you in first class. Also I love you and I hope you don't get stuck in the airport all night. I will drive to Atlanta and get you if you need me too.

Court and I got into a little tiff tonight about something stupid tonight, and it got me thinking about a tricky little logic problem.

Background
I bought a copy of A Long Way Gone after watching an interview with the author on The Daily Show with my wonderful girlfriend a few months back. Both of us expressed an interest in reading the book, so ( Read more... )

So May 1st is first and foremost May Day. The day that socialist nations across the globe honor the actions of four of working class anarchists who were hanged due to the Haymarket riots in 1887.

It's also Loyalty Day, a favorite of the Bush family, where Americans are encouraged to pay homage to the ideals that the country was founded on: hatred ( Read more... )

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