January 2012
16 posts
WatchI had a real Liz Lemon day at work today. I embarrassed myself, said the wrong thing to someone my company really needs to impress, and my office mate really takes a lot of joy in making fun of the way I talk.
“Of course, whenever people discover that other folk are going out of their way...”
– N.T. Wright
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable, when the...”
– - George Elliot, “The Mill on the Floss”
Congressman who authored bill requiring drug tests... →
From HuffPo:
Kip Smith, a Republican state congressman from Georgia and sponsor of a bill that would have submitted all welfare recipients to random drug testing, was arrested Friday night for driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Hunt for a Serial Killer Sends Homeless to... →
Skittish even at the best of times, homeless people in Orange County have been running to shelters this week in search of a safe place to sleep after the separate stabbing deaths of three homeless men. The authorities believe there is a serial killer stalking the homeless.
Demand for beds at some shelters was up as much as 40 percent in the last couple of days, while other shelters have been...
Jails don’t keep people out of jail →
dlbrows:
Work related.
Too bad the Harper government isn’t listening.
December 2011
8 posts
“I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did -...”
– Tina Fey
“With a recent Gallup poll indicating only 2 percent of his party supports his...”
– Huntsman Quietly Relieved To Be Polling Poorly Among GOP Voters | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
November 2011
9 posts
8 tags
For The Young Who Want To
by Marge Piercy
Talent is what they say you have after the novel is published and favorably reviewed. Beforehand what you have is a tedious delusion, a hobby like knitting.
Work is what you have done after the play is produced and the audience claps. Before that friends keep asking when you are planning to go out and get a job.
Genius is what they know you had after the third volume of...
“It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future....”
– William Gibson
I’ve been trying to get through Neuromancer* for the past month and it is so difficult to imagine because by now the words he made up actually mean real things.
*Neuromancer is a cyberpunk novel written by William Gibson and published in 1984. Gibson is often cited as the...
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
October 2011
21 posts
“There is … the danger that, with affluence, we will settle into a comfortable...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
The Criminalization of Homelessness →
Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue
What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary activities are illegal when performed in American streets.
What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary...
“If all you know is how to be a gang member, that’s what you’ll be, at least...”
– Scott Adams (via azspot)
Email from a Psychopath →
Author of book on psychopaths shares reader’s email.
message: Dear Jon, I just saw your interview on Australia’s ABC 7:30 report on ‘The Psychopath Test’ and wanted to share my experience. I hope that it can remain confidential for the time being, seeing as it is quite personal. But, when I was 19 (I’m 26-27 now) I went into long-term therapy - for psychopathy. My case was rather unusual in...
“Twenty to 40 percent of homeless youth identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or...”
– Cyndi Lauper
“So do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or...”
– Zizek!
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