January 2012
9 posts
December 2011
19 posts
“The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the...”
– The History of Love, a novel by Nicole Krauss (via xxsimplicity)
I just read a paper that my professor gave back to...
He wrote at the bottom “You are so rational!”
I can’t tell if that’s a good or bad thing. He usually tells me I have great ideas, so should I assume that it’s a compliment? Who knows. It’s probably a bad thing, lol.
Watchdaily-tumbles:
Following this blog will be the best thing you ever do
I have learned from the newspaper that a law is pending that basically ignores Habeas Corpus. A couple of years ago, the Bush Administration passed a law in which they may hold a non-U.S. citizen under the suspicion of terrorism. Proof or a writ by a judge is not required for the Non-U.S. Citizen. Now, the same law is pending for U.S. Citizens. Habeas Corpus declares that you cannot be held for...
With great respect, sir, I am your fellow citizen.
“The piety, the principle that is left in the United States, if only in its coarsest form, a regard to the speech of men,-forbid us to entertain it as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice, and such deafness to screams for mercy were never heard of in times of peace and in the dealing of a nation with its own allies and wards, since earth was made. Sir,...
November 2011
20 posts
“Drop a pebble in the water; just a splash, and it’s gone;
but...”
– James W. Foley
5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation →
heyyoitsrobee:
See #2 specifically, about the entertainment industry (specifically music) having no monetary value due to the Internet and illegal downloads.
“Yes, it was illegal, but it was illegal in the way that speeding on a country road at night is illegal. You had never met anyone who had actually gotten caught doing it.
Before we knew it, we had created a new reality in which creative...
“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via imfantasyparade)
October 2011
16 posts
"What no longer lives in you will forever live in...
I just found out that my cousin, who was called back into another term of service after his service was already completed, was on the bus that exploded in Afghanistan.
“In the brazen midday assault, a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an armored coalition bus traveling in the southwest end of the city. Heavily armored military vehicles also were in the convoy, but...
“I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via shedoesntknow)