February 2012
hello, hyderabad (and the saddest story i ever...
nukuler:
My friend Vivek, who studied the exact combination of three things as me in college but is hilariously better at all of them is in India to write a book. You can tell that it will be amazing.
vnemana:
Diary of February 8, 2012
On this day I arrived in India, finally, after months of anticipation and (excessive) fantasy. My uncle and aunt dropped me off at Sharjah International...
suddeninevitablebetrayal:
“People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad, but paying $900 for a drug they have a problem with — it keeps you alive. Why? Because you’ve been conditioned to think health care is something you can get without having to pay for it… He’s alive today because drug companies provide care. And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug...
is it bad that i want to go out and pick up french boys just so i can go home with them and sleep in a properly-heated apartment?
i love my host family but i’m sick of living with them.
i miss having my “own place.” here i feel like i am in highschool where someone might barge in at any time. also it’s cold as shit.
basically i just wanna be able to come home drunk and be loud while rummaging for snacks.
jeez.
“Why is it so fucking cold?”
– Europe (via arctic-grey)
SRYSLY
January 2012
hopefully this will be open when i return. →
As I waited in line to be processed and... →
motherjones:
MoJo’s Gavin Aronsen writes about being arrested by the Oakland PD on Saturday night while covering an Occupy protest—despite making clear to officers that he was a credentialed reporter. Unfortunately for the Oakland PD, reporters who are arrested for reporting things have an unusually high recidivism rate.
Holidaymakers have been warned to watch their...
UGHHHHHH
progressivefriends:
“Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote that he was going to “destroy America”.
He insisted he was referring to simply having a good time - but was sent home.
Trade association Abta told the BBC that the case highlighted that holidaymakers should never do anything to raise “concern or suspicion in any way”.
The US Department for Homeland Security picked up Mr...
