April 2012
wow did you really need to post that photo of your slimy, minutes-old, newborn baby on facebook?
no, no you didn’t.
Is America a Free Country? →
jonathan-cunningham:
The “war on terrorism” has inaugurated a new era in the American polity, a sea-change that has not only threatened to overturn traditional limits on government power but also corrupted the political culture – and opened the way to the terminal crisis of the Constitution.
In a revealing series of interviews on Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now” program, three individuals...
“One of the most amazing statistics of the last decade: not a single War on...”
– Federal judge complicity | Glenn Greenwald
(via theamericanbear)
In unsurprising facts today.
(via mehreenkasana)
wow i physically can’t stop crying. i think my body is expelling all of it’s fluids. good i’ll dry up like a raisin and never have to pay back my student loans. sometimes i think about self immolating in DePaul Central and it gives me the strength to go on.
i remember in high school aaron and i used to think of funny ways to kill ourselves and one was to hire a crane to swing...
rant- ignore
cannot believe i’m wasting my time in paris on this bullshit fucking online class that has absolutely nothing to do with anything meaningful or useful. this shit is gunna bring my gpa down so hard, that is if i even pass it, given that the midterm made no motherfucking sense. why the fuck wasn’t this class offered for summer, i shouldn’t be wasting my goddamn time on this.
...
“I wish I had an American accent.”
– No one, ever. (via prettywoes)
ughhhhhhh the sorrows of being an american learning french: no one thinks your accent is cute, you’re just butchering their beautiful language.
does anyone else obsessively look at your own facebook photos from time to time and try to figure out whether you’re an attractive person or not?
sometimes i’m like “eh, not too shabby” and other times i’m like “ughhhh what is my FACE.”
#selfloathingnarcissist
college has made me so dumb
petitchou:
Teach the Books, Touch the Heart
We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she crept out of her chair to get a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”
But they...
unghhhh i wanna hit up this eskell sale so bad but i need to cut my spending pretty much in half. someone else buy a gorgeous dress and support rad chicago designers!
fuckyeahexistentialism:
Sartre and the Anguish of Freedom
In the series of extracts from my almost-finished book on the history of moral thought, I have reached Chapter 15, which looks at existentialism, and primarily the work of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre. This extract is from the section that explores Sartre’s concept of freedom and his relationship to Marxism.
Imagine,...
i swear i used to have so much more hair than i do now
WHERE ARE YOU GOING HAIR
truth →
thought catalogue
what do my student debts have to do with my...
occupystudentdebt:
Years ago I went to college to study accounting, and like millions of other Americans I took out loans to pay for it. A few years later I got a temporary job in the accounting department at Bain & Co., and after 6 months of reliable work I was thrilled to be offered a full-time position.
However, just a few weeks after starting in my new position the company fired me...
i'm the shit playlist part II →
listening to this playlist and gettin down on some excel spreadsheets. fuck you LSP 121.
“Nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call...”
– Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. (via motherjones)
Forty Years in Solitary →
On Tuesday, Wallace and his friend Albert Woodfox will mark one of the more unusual, and shameful, anniversaries in American penal history. Forty years ago to the day, they were put into solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola jail. They have been there ever since.
They have spent 23 hours of every one of the past 14,610 days locked in their single-occupancy 9ft-by-6ft cells. Each...
the thought of apartment hunting makes me want to jump in front of a bus
why is my anxiety so much more pronounced here?
i guess cuz i have more time time to contemplate how deep this hole is i’ve dug for myself
going to get day drunk and take a bath in lieu of prescriptions
hurrah!
#whitew(h)ine
pamburger-with-cheese:
“You want to say Hi to the cute girl on the subway. How will she react? Fortunately, I can tell you with some certainty, because she’s already sending messages to you. Looking out the window, reading a book, working on a computer, arms folded across chest, body away from you = do not disturb. So, y’know, don’t disturb her. Really. Even to say that you like her hair, shoes,...
