"It's Not Just Bush (It's Systematic)" by Ryan Harvey

It's not just Bush, 100,000 dead
Another war, another population bleeding from the head
Another myth of liberation, Laos, Iraq
Another silent population scared of eye-contact
The obediently waiting, watching history repeat
Content to take what we are handed, til the cycle's so complete
That every law ( Read more... )

March commemorates Iraq deaths, war's fifth year
By: Lindsay Carroll

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I really have to stop writing emails.  Tina was totally right, never write political emails.  I hate the word retarded, but sometimes it seems the only reasonable one to apply to myself when it comes to social situations - by which I mean most of the time I'm awake.  It's so strange and improbable that I'm an activist, even a mediocre one, because ( Read more... )

 I just thought of this guy in my two German classes.  He's sweet, but very religious and always comes up with the mostly absurd Christian reasons for opposing socialism (nevermind that for everyone socialism = Stalinism = fascism).  One day, in response to a very clever Bertolt Brecht story we read called something like If Men were Sharks, he ( Read more... )

Elliot did the most unexpected and thoughtful thing today.  I was at the library and he called me up out of the blue and told me he was on CMU's campus and had gotten a free ice cream sundae and that it was covert propaganda from Hillel for the official establishment of Israel.  Turns out that November 29, 1947 saw the UN's approval of the ( Read more... )

I was recently reminded of postmodernism and, to tell you the truth, from the moment I found out about this theory, it pit a pit in my stomach and made me feel ill, literally.

I like to boil postmodernist theory to this: It's the greatest, most complex excuse intellectuals/liberals have ever come up with for not doing anything (i.e. activism).

I'm ( Read more... )

It considered to be the most widespread form of mild self mutilation. According to Freudian theory, nail biting is a symptom of oral fixation. The clinical name for nail biting is chronic onychophagia It occurs in

• 28% to 33% of children ages 7-10 years old,
• 44% of adolescents,
• 19% to 29% of young adults and
• 5% of older adults
• It is more common ( Read more... )

6 weeks ago?  Whoa.  I think that's a record.  Well, in that time I have gone to the Andrew Bird show, the Comedians of Comedy show and the Northeast Socialist Conference.  As for the NEC, it was awesome.  I learned a lot and fell in love half a dozen times, totally standard.  I stayed with Monique and Yusef, who are wonderful.  I got to talk to ( Read more... )

I have exercised four days in a row - 4 ( Read more... )

"Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the ( Read more... )