"In person, the 31-year old Kiedis does seem markedly different from his stage persona as a punk bonehead with raging hormones. In conversation, the singer is sincere almost to the point of somberness; he chooses his words carefully, tossing out two or three before settling on one with just the right poetic feel, as if he likes to imbue everything ( Read more... )

Rajaa Alsanea ( Read more... )

Dan Savage: “The mistake that straight people made... was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. Men had concubines, mistresses and access to prostitutes, until everybody decided marriage had to be egalitar­ian and fairsey.” In the feminist revolution, rather than extending to women “the same latitude ( Read more... )

"One way to articulate the core principle of a pluralistic society is that each member has to adapt to the reasonable annoyance created by being surrounded by people who choose to live differently."

PostSecret comment in response to: "God... help me find You again"

"God isn't the one who is lost; we all are. God is where He always is... we need to stop trying to "find God" and instead rid ourselves of the things that we use to hide from God."

"‎"Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence." -- Marshall McLuhan

Thanks to Kristy W.

Goes a bit toward explaining palestinian violence, eh?

But better yet we need a spiritual revolution... because the best identity is:

I respect Hitchens' intelligence and generally find his opinions wise and well-considered. But he is completely on the wrong side of history here. Libya's in a civil war. Civil wars are messy and tragic and many people will die. But its situation needs to resolve itself. Yes, Daffy Qaddafi is a nutcase and a dee-bag and a terrorist against his "own ( Read more... )

hippos close their noses while going underwater!

i couldn't believe she left her panties for the nun
some kind of attitude
now her future is bright (yeah but no thanks to the sun)
shit man, fuck dude

slippin' and slidin' oh what graceful glidin'
to hell with the birth canal
soon she'll be cryin' pay respect to poseidon
sea is pretty but he ain't your pal

Sure, suicide is selfish.

But the suicidal person hates himself so much, he feels it would be selfish to remain alive. Suicide is proposed not as a means of ridding himself of the world, but of ridding the world of himself.