August 2010
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“It offends my notion of the freedom due every man and woman that I cannot sip a...”
– The Folly of Needless Alcohol Laws
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“How did the few people so rich that they really don’t need much from government...”
– More on the intergenerational contract
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“Just a personal observation from a heterosexual, middle-aged woman. I once...”
– Easier to be gay in a conservative environment than to be conservative in a gay environment
There’s so much wrong with this quote and with the use of this quote but let me just say:
I wish they would keep their sexuality to themselves.
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“Look at that Liberace! He sure is queer.” It wasn’t a criticism so...”
– ♫ In the chapel bells are ringing ♫ - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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2 for 1 Tickets to La Idea Fija, A Sexy Dance...
My mouth gaped and my jaw dropped early on while watching the opening-night performance of La Idea Fija, now playing every Saturday, 11:30 PM, at El Porton de Sanchez. I’ve never been much of a fan of modern dance (One summer in college I took a course and felt ridiculous) and only went to peformance pieces in Chicago when my friends were involved. All my reservations got blasted away in...
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“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social...”
– Abraham Lincoln, letting it all hang out
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“Presidents can’t simply speak their minds.”
– Gay marriage: Why Obama sticks with civil unions
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Word Play In The War Zone →
Callin’ the Obama Bullshit.
Dear Americans and Obama-sycophants: Yer in this for the long haul and anyone who believes different is a fool.
Hope yer kid’s grand-kids appreciate the bill!
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Juanele - Open Your Eyes To Art in Buenos Aires:... →
Elements like fire, water and air preexist mankind’s actions and philosophies. They have always defied human desire to dominate the natural order. With an ironic and impassive seriousness, conceptual artist Esteban Álvarez has decided to deal with these things by, for…
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San Telmo Art Walk
Five guests from Art Factory Hostel, and from all over the world, made this past Friday’s San Telmo Art Walk a lot of fun. I’m almost always surprised by some of the questions I’m asked and weren’t prepared for but that’s just a good sign that folks who take the art walk are pretty sharp.
They may ask different questions but everyone who takes the walk says some...
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Been down one time
Been down two times
Mmmmmm
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“A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim,...”
– Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim
Clearly, far too many Americans are out of their fucking minds. And people still ask me why I moved away for good.
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“It’s a beautiful piece of work. Republicans get to look tough on Muslims and the...”
– What are the Republicans trying to hide behind the Ground Zero Mosque?
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“Every actual radical Islamist would know perfectly well that an imam [Rauf] who...”
– A Flip in Perspective
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WatchI would appreciate some close-ups. Thanks.
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“[Junot Diaz’s] manic voice describes everything with the same faux energy,...”
– The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers
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“I can’t go through my life taking down my trousers to show whether I’m a...”
– Sexual Politics: The Fight for Transsexual Rights | The Argentina Independent
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“The SAFER Act, introduced into Congress last Tuesday, would provide funding for...”
– New Law Address Rape Kit Backlog
More on the legislation can be found here, courtesy of the RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.
(via ryking)
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“my phantom penis made an entrance in my late twenties”
– penis envy « Portrait of the Other Man
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“It is because many of us take this president’s intellectual and moral...”
– Lessig On Obama, or the Limits of Pragmatism
Sometimes you have to take a stand, stick your neck out, LEAD.
That’s not Obama.
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“Thus the world is shown not the mastermind of a heinous crime but a short-order...”
– Prosecutorial Flim-Flam at Gitmo
Two things this shows:
1. The complete inability of any U.S. administration to effectively prosecute the war on terror.
2. The continued immoral bullshit put into place by Bush/Cheney but perpetuated by Obama.
I, for one, for this issue alone, could not bring...
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“If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of...”
– Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
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WatchRosanne Cash’s Memoir, ‘Composed’
Gods, I love this woman. She still sounds great and so does Seven-Year Ache:
Don’t you know/Heartaches are heroes/When their pockets are full.
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“Khadr, then 15 years old, was taken to Bagram near death, after being shot twice...”
– U.S. military judge accepts as evidence admission of coerced confession
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