February 2011
Just listened to Gorgoroth’s first 3 albums, in order, on vinyl. Feels grim man.
“Egypt doesn’t have control of its people the way we do here.”
– Joe Biden, today on MSNBC (via statehate)
This statement is sad from so many different angles.
(via johnr48)
“The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian...”
– John Adams (via ageofreason)
January 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Cobalt (34)
The Smiths (33)
Von Thronstahl (30)
Death in June (23)
Devin Townsend (21)
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captaindwreck:
“Here I sit by the fire. Liquor’s bitter flames warm my languid soul. Here I drink alone and remember a graven life, the stain of her memory. In this cup, love’s poison. For love is the poison of life. Tip the cup, feed the fire, and forget about useless fucking hope…” -Agalloch
ThinkProgress » Oklahoma Lawmaker Sally Kern... →
RAGE
URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE...
roxanneritchi:
[via]
“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even...
Depressive realism →
floatingparticles:
Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the illusion of control and optimism bias. The concept refers to people with borderline or moderate depression, suggesting that while non-depressed people see things in an ...
Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying...
iheartchaos:
Author Ayn Rand, famously a believer in rugged individualism and personal responsibility, was a strong defender of self-interest. She was a staunch opponent of government programs from the New Deal and Social Security to the Great Society and Medicare… was apparently secretly taking Social Security and Medicare near the end of her life.
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“Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every...”
– Thomas Jefferson (you know, that guy that wrote the Declaration of Independence and 3rd POTUS), to the Virginia Baptists (1808)
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood....”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via cavesoflilith)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise,...”
– Henry David Thoreau. Quoted in Walden. (via ahistoryofquotes)
Fear and self-loathing in Victoria
The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape →
Absolutely disgusting.
“Humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson in Death by Black Hole (via incaseyouwantorneedtoknow)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
VNV Nation (50)
Underworld (24)
Rush (21)
Slint (15)
The Sisters of Mercy (14)
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Genital mutilation is no joke
Rabbi Harold Kushner: Christopher, I've gotta call you down on referring to circumcision as genital mutilation. My son cried more at his first haircut than he did at his bris...
Christopher Hitchens: You weren't doing it right then.
Rabbi Harold Kushner: ...and statistically, the only long-term effect that it seems to have on people is that it increases their chances of winning a Nobel Prize.
Christopher Hitchens: I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor in that way, or flippancy in that way. Maimonides says, very plainly, that [circumcision] is designed to repress sexual pleasure, to deprive a male child, as far as possible, of the opportunity for that. We have the records...of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, in the United States, of boy babies who've died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice. That a person as humane as yourself can sit here and think of that as a fit subject for humor shows what I mean: religion makes normally moral people say and do disgusting and wicked things. You've just proven my point for me. Shame on you for saying what you just said! Shame on you for saying it about your own son! My god! What's next? Cutting the labias of little girls. At least Judaism doesn't do that. What if a Muslim was to say to you just now "my little girl cried more at her first haircut than when I cut off her clitoris"? What would you think of me if I was to say such a disgusting thing? Remember, we're not talking about detail here. We're talking about whether religion makes people behave better or not...genital mutilation is no joke.
