February 2012
5 posts
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January 2012
17 posts
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After Peer Review
“As a rule, from what I’ve observed, the American Captain of Industry...”
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“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
– ~ Cicero
human dignity
When the business lobby wants to attack unemployment insurance they do it by characterizing the jobless as lazy.
When politicians endeavor to justify the mass killing of people they uses terms like “Islamofacist” to reduce a whole people to a category sufficiently low that we might cheer their mass killing.
Power can come from denying people their dignity as human beings.
Today we celebrate the...
“Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece...”
– Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938)
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December 2011
25 posts
The Best Tumblrs We've Ever Seen, This Year →
newshour:
Great list
nationaljournal:
NJ didn’t make the list, but 2012 will be our year! At least, The Atlantic will be receiving lots of Edible Arrangements in an attempt to sway their judgement in our favor. It helps that they work one floor below.
Disclaimer: Ryan Gosling VS Puppy did make the list & happens to be a NJ newsroom favorite.
Wherein Occupy Wall Street earns a top...
“Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between...”
– Lorrie Moore (via vintageanchor)
Shit I think I have an extended version of this problem. Damn.
“Dress suitably in short skirts & strong boots, leave your jewels in the...”
– Countess Markievcizv, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via sharkyteeth)
Yes, it’s eternally relevant fashion advice, and yes she was born in the 19th century, but she didn’t become a revolutionary until the 20th century.
(via bronze-by-gold)
my...
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“When I talk about this in the United States, I’m often attacked, ‘oh, you don’t...”
– Jeffrey Sachs (via shannonpareil)
“I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life...”
– Herman Cain, announcing on Saturday that he was suspending his presidential campaign. He has quoted the same words in previous speeches, attributing them to a poet. (via officialssay)
November 2011
35 posts
