...awesome churchill quotes. When it was unclear whether the USSR or the US would enter the war against Germany and chances of a lone British military victory were slim, Churchill declares, "If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground."

last time i went to dc we saw these crazy african american dudes who looked like they were dressed up as pirates talking about jesus. did you know jesus was black and that the tribes of israel are actually latinos, asians, africans, and other US designations for peoples of color? now they are in new york, too, across the street from my house! in ( Read more... )

mccain's wikipedia speech on georgia

rhythmic gymnastics august 22nd!
youtube highlights

Long-secret AP: US files yield truth on 'Korean Mata Hari,' a half-century too late

i will want to watch the movie.

Apparently, contrary to popular opinion, women suicide bombers have pretty much the same motives as men. Shocking! According to an nytimes op ed by a poli sci doctoral student at u chicago, women attackers are often portrayed as being coerced or motivated by "womanly" concern for slain family members. But it turns out not to be true. Being the ( Read more... )

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father-daughter "purity ball"
nytimes slideshow

Now it is easy to see that the moral aspect of love is an artificial sentiment born of social custom, and extolled by women with so much skill and care in order to establish their hegemony and make dominant the sex that ought to obey.
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of InequalityRousseau had a sort of open relationship with his maid his whole ( Read more... )

stocking random knowledge.

i am now using this quote, already typed out and even translated, at the top of my Rousseau paper on the politics of recognition :)
http://jmhudson.livejournal.com/240028.html

on that note, i wish i were reading fiction right now. i just finished Turgenev's ( Read more... )