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I'm just sick of wasting all this paper and I wanna learn fast.

My life is pretty boring.

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November 22 2009

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November 20 2009

Text November 20 | 17:22 Tom Waits True Confessions

This is a pretty great interview. Here are my favorites:

Q: What are some unusual things that have been left behind in a cloakroom?

A: Well, Winston Churchill was born in a ladies cloakroom and was one sixteenth Iroquois

Q: What’s heaven for you?

A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.

Q: What’s wrong with the world?

A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Q: What is a gentleman?

A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

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Picture November 20 | 17:18 [1 notes]

Before Jeanne-Claude’s death, she and Christo were at work on two longstanding projects: “Over the River,” a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or truncated rectangular pyramid, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.

Like all their projects, these are intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”

via NYT

Quote November 20 | 11:11

"Her political celebrity is so powerful that it has reduced a large part of the Republican Party to irrationality and civic incoherence. According to Gallup, Republicans are more likely to say they would seriously consider voting for Palin for president (65 percent) than to say she is qualified for the job (58 percent)."

Jon Meacham, “Why Palin Matters to Obama—And to You,” Newsweek.com

Yikes.

November 19 2009

Quote November 19 | 13:12

"Why is it broadly accepted that the elderly should have universal health care, while it’s immensely controversial to seek universal coverage for children? What’s the difference — except that health care for children is far cheaper?"

Nicholas Kristof, The Wrong Side of History, NYTimes.com

Quote November 19 | 0:40

"We as the consumers, we as the women, have the power. If you don’t like something, don’t buy it. Don’t buy the magazine if you don’t like what it says. If you don’t like the image a brand is putting out, don’t buy it. What I really don’t agree with is people who complain about it but still support it. You’re giving your power away. If people don’t want skinny models, stop buying the magazine with the skinny model, and believe me those magazines will change fast. It’s business."

Cindy Crawford, via The Cut

November 18 2009

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“Given women’s significant engagement in food production in developing countries, the close connection between gender, farming and climate change deserves far more analysis than it currently receives,” the UNFPA said.

Societies which will be more resilient to climate change are those with education, healthcare and legal protection for all, and where people have more say in their own lives, it added.

via bbcnews.com

November 17 2009

Quote November 17 | 17:59

"If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?"

Sarah Palin in her new literary masterpiece, Going Rogue.

I just, I…. I don’t know, Sarah. You’ve got me stumped.

November 16 2009

Link November 16 | 17:25 My Near-Death Panel Experience

“Such behavior is a graphic example of how the issue of health care was hijacked. Town hall meetings became dominated by people shouting down their opponents and yelling misinformation. Some town hall participants even told politicians to keep government out of their Medicare — something that would be difficult to pull off since Medicare is a government program.”

-EARL BLUMENAUER, Op-Ed Contributor, attempts to figure out where health care got “hijacked.”

November 12 2009

Quote November 12 | 14:42

"Girls think I’m a slut, and I’ve been in the same relationship since I was 18. The problem is, if they think you’re attractive, you’re either stupid or a whore or a dumb whore. The instinct among girls is to attack the jugular."

-Megan Fox, via NYTimes.com

Yes, this is true, unfortunately. But it’s also true that everyone hates hearing, “They don’t like me because they’re jealous. They don’t like me because I’m cute.” Even if it’s true. A lot of times, it’s basically a lose-lose for smart, attractive girls because society forces you to pick one.

Picture November 12 | 14:38

“Shmela, 8, makes bricks with unseen family members at a brick factory in Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of capital Islamabad on November 12, 2009. Families trapped in the bonded agreement all work together, the men and women preparing the clay and making bricks while the children gather them and ferry the building materials in the hazardous kiln area. A study by the Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan (BLLFP), a group of charities working to help the labourers, estimates 4.5 million brick kiln workers are victims of this illegal custom.”

via Jezebel

November 10 2009

Link November 10 | 23:27 The "only moral abortion"

Quote November 10 | 12:33 [113 notes]

"Girls, if boys say something that’s not funny, you don’t have to laugh."

Amy Poehler (at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards)

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November 09 2009

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claudia:

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no, no, not between a doctor and a MALE patient.

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November 08 2009

Text November 08 | 18:30 Here is what I propose:

The desire to strip women of their healthcare rights seems, to me, to boil down to female sexuality. It’s time for America to realize that this isn’t about other women. This is about women they know. It is about women who take all the precautions they can think of to take, or at least all the precautions they can afford, but realize that 99% effective is another way of saying 1% ineffective. It’s about women who are in pain, and women who have no right choice. This isn’t about your god and my god and sluts who can’t keep their legs closed. It’s about a fact that many men in this country really wish they could deny: female sexuality is a fact. Every time a woman has sex, she COULD GET PREGNANT. It’s about the fact that men seem unable to acknowledge that it’s a little different for them. They have the privilege of walking away. So it’s about them, and their wives, and their girlfriends, and (yeah, I said it) their mistresses. This is about every woman with whom they’ve slept.

Denying access to abortions or funding for women’s abortions will do nothing to decrease the abortion rate. It will increase the pain and hardship of women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant, and it will placate the consciences of the men who voted to take these rights away.

So here’s what I propose: that women just stop. If the people (mostly men) who vote away women’s rights do so because they sincerely believe that access to birth control and abortions is an issue that only effects “other” women whom they do not know and are not like them, and that the women they know do not need silly things like birth control or abortions, then I suggest that all women just stop having sex with them. If you really don’t care if I can get pregnant or not, then I guess I’m just not going to sleep with anyone until someone does. See how seriously you take my rights now, stupid men in congress. Just see. HA!