سلي الرماح الـعوالي عن معالينا
واستشهدي البيض هل خاب الرجا فينا
بيــض صنائعنا سود وقـائعـنا
خضر مرابعنا حمر مواضينا
لا يمتطي المجد من لم يركب الخطرا
ولا ينال العلا من قدم الحذرا

My discomfort with Media continues to grow, as I unearth more and more biases in the sources that I've grown to trust over the years ( Read more... )

The limitations of Google Translate:

الزوجة الكريمة (al-zawjatu l-kariima) = The honoured wife

Google Translate: Wife cream.

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سحق = To crush
مسحوق = powder ("that which is crushed"... makes sense)
but
سحاق = Lesbianism ("Related to crushing")
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Transcribed to the best of my ability
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Outline of Instruction:

1. Motivation: your most important tool in captivity is psychological composure. Your detainers can manipulate and control your external environment almost at will. You have control of your internal processes. Psychological preparation is the ( Read more... )

I feel very unsure about this book (still have 40 pages to go.) There's a saying in Poker, "If, after 30 minutes of playing, you don't know who the patsy is, then you're the patsy." I have been racking my brain trying to find out who is the patsy in this whole story of the beginnings of the Beat Generation ( Read more... )

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.

Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me.

In one short hour, Love omnipotent
has toppled all my wisdom’s wide empire.
Now learn from this: if I, both old and wise,
have yet been driven to commit a deed
mad even to dream of, shocking to perform,
you, lusty youth, will surely not go free.

It's hard not to listen to other rappers (spent a lot of today listening to Jean Grae, Action Bronson, B.O.B.) and not feel like there's something special about Kendrick Lamar ( Read more... )

I have literally spent the last two weeks listening to 1 (ONE) album by Kendrick Lamar - good kid m.A.A.d. city. It is outrageously well constructed. I have not enjoyed an album this much since Shad's T.S.O.L. (and Kendrick's a lot more solid, and feels a lot less overproduced ( Read more... )