December 2011
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““Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so...”
– Neil Gaiman
I do so very much love this man.
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“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is...”
– Bertrand Russell
Dammit, man. Every time! You get me every time!
Faulted Honesty
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
-Bertrand Russell
I am honest to a fault. Though at times this is an asset, I’ve found that such “refreshing honesty” is a rather unwieldy weapon. In these moments my...
Walls and shadows, fears and faith
And in the middle of the night, I may watch you go
There’ll be no value in the strength of walls that I have grown
There’ll be no comfort in the shade of the shadows thrown
You may not trust the promises of the change I’ll show
But I’ll be yours if you’ll be mine
“There’s little of more importance to the future of our country and our...”
– J. F. Kennedy as quoted by his daughter, Caroline, at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors (via kateoplis)
Absolutely.
Seven Deadly Sins
transcendentwhispers:
Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
(Source: myquotelibrary)
Ay Dios Mio!
For whatever reason my life is quickly descending into something resembling a telenovela. Not ok. Not. OK. However, I can take comfort in the fact that my hair has never looked like this, nor have I ever unwittingly slept with my father’s illegitimate child from his torrid affair while my mother was in coma from being hit by car that was speeding away from the site of a kidnapping. So...
Google "let it snow"
thegreg:
Do it.
Yaaaaayyyy for google Easter Eggs!
Intense Coffee Shop Moments
I was working on my dissertation in one of the local coffee shops today and the women next to me asked me if I was going to be there for a while. I said yes and she asked me if I saw a tall kid with dreads come in to tell him his aunt would be right back. His name was Brian, her name was Mitch. Fifteen minutes after she left a rather tall and thin guy with short dreads walked in with a guitar...
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The Lightning Campaign: The Bangladesh War,...
There are genocides and mass killings that are familiar to us, the Holocaust, Rwanda, the Balkans, Armenia to a certain extent, maybe Guatemala. And then there are the mass atrocities and genocides that seemly fail to catch the attention of the American public. Bangladesh fits the bill. It is odd to say but this recent genocidal episode (1971) holds a special place in my mind as it was the...
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“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards,...”
– John Steinbeck
Jailed Afghanistan rape victim Gulnaz is freed →
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“Remember your humanity and forget the rest”
– Bertrand Russell
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Xmas party awkwardness.
Tis the season for a crap ton of parties with people you don’t know. And so the inevitable “what do you do?” question seems to be a constant “hmm” moment in my life currently. Do you go the honest route, assume they actually are curious and say “oh I study genocide and rape law in feminist poststructural critical legal geographies” or assume they...
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the...”
– Bertrand Russell
“All I can do is to find the light within the darkness. To discover the answers...”
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Camel, Lion, Child
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche announced that the spirit has undergone three metamorphoses.’ In the first one the spirit becomes a camel; then the camel becomes a lion; and finally the lion becomes a child. While a camel, the spirit allows itself to be loaded with any values or beliefs humanity wants to load it with. But while speeding into the desert the spirit undergoes a second...
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“The visions you glorify in your mind,
The ideals you enthrone in your heart.....”
– James Allen
“A dissertation is NOT really about creating new knowledge, that’s the end result...”
– Symonette
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– e.e. cummings