April 2013
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“In all the Library, there are no two identical books. From those...”
– From “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges, translation by Andrew Hurley
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saotome-michi replied to your post: Back when I was in high school, I followed this…
Oh wow, I read the same blog as well! Thank you for informing me of the update, I’m so glad to know she’s all right. And I agree with everything else. It pains me to hear people say that the US is the best country in the world…
Wow, I knew she had a large readership, but that’s still such a cool...
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Back when I was in high school, I followed this blog called Baghdad Burning, run by a young Iraqi woman (pseudonym Riverbend) who posted about the shitshow that was the Iraq War and the ruin and pain it was causing in ordinary people’s lives. She was eloquent, furious, and raw, and I admired her so much I wrote an essay about her for a contest.
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In 2007, she and her family moved to...
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“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people...”
– Hugh Mackay (via armchairreasoning)
March 2013
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TVP: The River →
ecstasis:
This is my formula for the fall of things: we come to a river we always knew we’d have to cross. It ferries the twilight down through fieldworks
of corn and half-blown sunflowers. The only sounds, one lost cicada calling to itself and the piping of a bird that will never have a name.
Now tell me there is a pause where we know there should be an end; then tell me you too...
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"A Poem" by Robert Hass
“You would think God would relent,” the American poet Richard Eberhardt wrote during World War II, “listening to the fury of aerial bombardment.” Of course, God is not the cause of aerial bombardment. During the Vietnam War, the United States hired the RAND Corporation to conduct a study of the effects in the peasant villages of Vietnam of their policy of saturation bombing...
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8 Studies That Debunk Male Gender Stereotypes →
nevver:
Between infancy and first grade, boys express their emotions more readily than girls. [here]
Worldwide, boys aren’t any better at math than girls. [here]
Young men are more emotionally vulnerable to troubles in their relationships than young women are. [here]
Men are less rational investors than women. [here]
Men aren’t worse than women at reading emotional cues. [here]
Men monitor...
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天高皇帝远
you could let it all go up in smoke
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“I hear “nothing’s more American than immigrating in
“Working hard is more...”
– A poem written, editted, and performed by Jason Chu in response to the La Jolla Playhouse casting only 2 Asian-Americans in a play set in ancient China - part of the trend known as “no Asian faces on TV”. Because progress is made by opening our eyes - not being blind. (via hapaflipster)
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we’ve outworn the seams of our skin
The future quivers liquid over the cusp. It is not given to us to know whether water spills or remains contained – only to dip our heads and drink.
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Waking at Night by Jack Gilbert
The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.
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“Somehow, we have popularized the notion that being offended by a joke is wrong,...”
– Lectures on Sociology Series, 2/24/13 (via shiracirca)
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… [S]ometimes it is the most difficult thing in the world to say what is okay and what is not okay. And with comedy it is nearly impossible. Ideally, we like to think of comedy as a safe zone where a comedian should feel free to say whatever they want. It’s a stage where taboos are meant to be broken and free speech can reign supreme. That fact that it can sometimes offend is often...
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