October 2010
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“So long as you think you are white, there is no hope for you.”
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– RACE TRAITOR | The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To To Abolish It
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(i) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to...
– Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
I read this essay at least twice a year. And so should every serious writer.
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Come where the booze is cheaper,
Come where the pots hold more,
Come where the...
– Good Bad Books, Collected Essays, by George Orwell (part27)
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iloveitreally asked: TY 4 U FOLLO ME.
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Same-Sex Snogging Common Among Straight University... →
Kissing straight boys is one of my life’s great pleasures, not least because there’s no pressure to go any farther. It’s nice just as it is.
danielextra:
What the bollocky bollocks is happening in the UK? We mean it’s fabulous to hear from a new study from the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior that 89 percent of male British university and high school students had kissed...
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Child-soldier pleads guilty
Khadr’s chief interrogator plead guilty to abusing prisoners including a case that resulted in the death of one.Amplify’d from andrewsullivan.theatlantic.comOmar Khadr’s “Guilty” PleaI don’t know how anyone who cares about the integrity and moral standing of the United States can absorb the full details of this case and not be profoundly ashamed. To prosecute a child...
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I see no way that ignorance and truth can be placed side by side, nor do I...
– Walking With Integrity: A manifesto from our friend Bishop John Shelby Spong
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I decided it was unwise to ask him where his parents spent the war.
– Notes on Riding Palestinian Buses
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Until I was jailed I never fully appreciated the capacity of memory,” says...
– Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
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Better than the alternatives” is a hollow mantra and worse slogan. It might give...
– Barack Obama and the Limits of Prudence
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If I see a Madonna appear in a field to bless me, the first thing I’d...
– Eight reasons you won’t persuade me to believe in a god : Pharyngula
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Good people do good and bad people do harm but for good people to do harm it...
– Economist Debates: Religion
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Lifestyle choice
Sheesh, it’s Clinton and “teh gays” all over again.
Guess we have to wait another 8 years? Or maybe 12?Amplify’d from andrewsullivan.theatlantic.comThose are the words Obama aide Valerie Jarrett uses to describe one of the recent gay suicide victims. “Lifestyle choice.” Yes, the Obamaites mean well, even if they’ve done so little. But they really are...
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