March 2012
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What's Wrong With the News? →
Independent, aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging. Mergers in the news industry have accelerated, further limiting the spectrum of viewpoints that have access to mass media. With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and...
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jpegartifacts:
I wanted to make a joke about how in a few years some GOP senator will introduce a bill which would repeal the nineteenth amendment (women’s suffrage), but then I realised that, at our current rate, that is probably true.
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“It is the hatred of women that is the fuel of this whole thing. When the coach...”
– For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
February 2012
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“Thoughts are like clouds, they should float above us freely as gaseous...”
– Shaurya (via dishabillic)
So, I am reblogging what I said without having originally posted what I said. Is this what being Kanye West feels like? Depraved? Intellectually frustrated? Really, really horny?
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Anonymous asked: do you do anything at bowdoin beside blog? jeeeez :P do some work!
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Anonymous asked: ps. what if I told you I don't even go to harvard and I don't know a thing about bowdoin and that i was bored so i thought i'd annoy you? lolll
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Anonymous asked: Can I have your autograph? You're such a legend.
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Entitled
Hello trusted, trust-fund baby, Lucid gentle ears and eyes, Gentle for too short a time? Clouded, what you’ll see in me, twenty-some years past pressing powder in your sternum— Will I still smell like home? Will my poverty reek foreign? Just know, kid, we’ve set it out for you, with your taxless struggles taxing these cracked and flaking fingers— So don’t say it’s not...
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Y'all don't know that don't shit faze me
Two things:
1. Deleting all these college-related asks in a few hours or something because HOLY SHIT
2. Because I get random influxes of questions on colleges and college admissions and comparing colleges (as reasonably as can possibly be done):
Follow The Application Helpline
…Which I’ll be working on / launching / reading apps for / answering questions with some friends. Probably kick...
Anonymous asked: i love you
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As Republicans Claim Wall Street Reform Is Killing... →
anticapitalist:
As House Republicans and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce team up for their latest assault on the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, specifically a rule reining in banks’ risky trading, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has released its latest Quarterly Banking Profile, which shows that GOP claims regarding Dodd-Frank killing America’s banks have little truth behind...
Anonymous asked: what school do you go to ?
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absurdreasoning:
“Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?”
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Socrates being a badass and inventing meta-ethics in the Euthyphro dialogue
I’m sorry, I think what you mean is, IS PIOUS PIOUS ‘CAUSE GOD LOVES PIOUS? SOCRATES ASKED WHOSE BIAS DO Y’ALL SEEK.
#i literally shudder when hova drops rhetoric on this...
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The Heterosexual Privilege Checklist →
mindsablaze:
Dilemma I been having:
I have NO idea how to even begin to help a privileged person (of any kind) understand this kind of privilege - is it futile?
I will most likely rant about this later but right now my brain is a little mushy from mad PSCI readings…
Privilege is invisible to those who have it. You have a responsibility to educate yourself about your own privilege, so that...
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The biggest photo of the night sky ever taken. →
This is absolutely, horrifically overwhelming.
omfg.
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“The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.”
– @paulgilding at TED (via kateoplis)
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GOP Reasoning Wooooo
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
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Professor Life
I just went over to my Japanese teacher’s house with some friends and we cooked food, arm wrestled, gossiped about other teachers, and then I wore her pants (she’s a 24 inch waist and is small enough to be an eight year old) and we promised to go out drinking together during third year.
Bowdoin, mothafucka. My school > your school.
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I take back everything I said about having the best boyfriend. SKIP THIS PLEASE.
I’M GOING TO HAVE TO RECOMMEND EVERYONE WATCH THIS
OMG FUCK YOU
I have the greatest girlfriend ever.
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“On the scales of desire, your absence weighs more
than someone else’s presence,...”
– “Absence,” Jeffrey McDaniel (via ambivalent-progression)
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WatchBefore anyone gets the wrong idea, this is not me thinking I can sing, this is recreational embarrassment (also why I sang quietly on purpose). You totally owe me for this. Somehow. Yeah. What.
Don’t mind this post.
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Kat George: Last night I was sexually assaulted in... →
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katgeorge:
Last night I was sexually assaulted in the street (well, tonight, but I’m publishing today so I’ve edited as such). Let me be clear on this; I wasn’t actually physically harmed in anyway, but I was put under threat for my bodily integrity (that I might be raped or beaten), which, in Australia at…
“I thought about calling the police last night. Then what? Waiting for...
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Marvelous
Hello civilian Let me tell you, I am standing atop the tower, watching from the viewpoints and if I take it I won’t make this fall, Cape to leap and letter in hand that just reads “help,” But I won’t make this fall. So when you look up at me, wondering, if I can fly, if I can take your breath like the spinning wind like a fire imagined cradled in my palms or unreal...
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Unworn
I am your favorite dirty sweater unbearable to wash, damp with rigid drizzle cut and burn wax parchment texture— Worry first, that you are leaving yet unbeknownst that Fear is not shipped Salvation army boxes but rather kept forever, ceaselessly forsaken.
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“They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist...”
– E.J. Dionne Jr. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Anonymous asked: Why are you such a boss?
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Sculpt Me
dishabillic:
Marble bones; chisel my spine. Clay skin; mold my waist, shape my face. Malleable metal lips: press and electrify.
Sculptor
Outline survey: Rounded and hinged, perfectly cusped, polished and pinned. Your bones in my heart that sumptuous skin, scintillate the hammer, stupefy the nail. There is nothing to mold, nothing to make, nothing to ask, nothing to fix.
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“Ever notice how the women in Cosmopolitan magazine so often look like they’re a...”
– Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze | Fatshionista (via wine-loving-vagabond, curvesahead)
EXACTLY.
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The Fabric is Rising
You left these pastel sheets so weightless scattered still for the scent you rubbed in, and though in every second memory grows thin, these ribbed folds are reminders in the rugs that you are just missing for a short time. In the meantime, the furniture in my room must simply stand tall with the sole weight of my form, while for your soul it waits, for more, come home.
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I'm stripping myself of the anti Chris Brown...
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Today was the last straw with this bullshit that The Daily What put out, because there’s something else at play that I can’t get with.
People are more concerned with a political or sociological agenda than they are with the actual victim.
First, let’s get one silly notion out of the way. Rihanna owes you nothing. How self-centered of you to even assume so. All she owes is herself...
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Anonymous asked: Are you Pakistani or Indian?
AWESOME BRAIN POWERS: The Anti-Inspiration of True... →
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I’m kind of glad I didn’t get around to reading much David Foster Wallace until recently.
I’ve just finished the entirety of Consider the Lobster (the essay collection, not just the article originally published in Gourmet), and if I hadn’t completed the process of applying to MFA…
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Oh my god three billion brown-people (and some others) just liked the story I posted about dishabillic and me.
Nothing against fellow brown people but like damn.
I just thought my friends would read this.
Too embarrassing.
Just a disclaimer ‘cause I got some follows: I am really not that cool compared to dishabillic and you will be disappointed by the ratio of my Kanye West posts to...
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