September 2011
82 posts
“Harry yells fuckword after fuckword.”
—Brad Neely, Wizard People Dear Reader
#OccupyWallStreet: occupying other cities, prominent voices in support of the demonstrations →
underthemountainbunker.com
Raw Story reports on the coordination efforts of occupying other cities, as well as some prominent voices now publicly supporting the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations:
Another demonstration popped up in Chicago over the weekend. Around 20 “Occupy Chicago” protesters gathered at Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, on Friday and then marched to the Federal Reserve Bank. Some protesters have remained camped out in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the organizers said the “occupation” had grown from 4 people to about 50.
Other “occupation” protests are being planned for Detroit, Denver, Cleveland, Boston, Phoenix, Seattle, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. The site occupytogether.org has been set up in hopes of coordinating the protests.
Although the New York Times described the protest as a “noble but fractured and airy movement of rightly frustrated young people” whose purpose was “virtually impossible to decipher,” the demonstration has attracted some prominent voices in the progressive and liberal community.
Journalist Chris Hedges described the protest as “really where the hope of America lies.”
“The real radicals have seized power,” he asserted, “and they are decimating all impediments to the creation of a neo-feudalistic corporate state, one in which there is a rapacious oligarchic class, a thin managerial elite, and two-thirds of this country live in conditions that increasingly push families to subsistence level.”
MIT professor Noam Chomsky also said he supports the protest. “Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial institutions generally — has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world),” he said. “And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power.”
Filmmaker Michael Moore and Current TV host Keith Olbermann both separately lamented the lack of substantial news coverage of the event, questioning why same-sized or smaller tea party protests garnered more attention than “Occupy Wall Street.”
Even Stephen Colbert chimed in, wondering why his reporters couldn’t find the stereotypical “mindless hippie argle-bargle” in the protest.
Interesting that the New York Times said the demonstrations’ purpose was “virtually impossible to decipher,” while The Guardian described it as, “young people [who] have come to reclaim the future.” It’s all in how you look at it, I guess.
I was deployed to Iraq 4x
5 of my friends are dead
1 of my friends is missing his arm
1 of my friends killed himself
I’ve been blown up 2x by roadside bombs
Hearing fireworks makes me nervous
I don’t sleep at nightAll so bankers and war profiteers could get richer
I am the 99%
Mitt Romney Says When Unions Donate Money It’s ‘A Form Of Corruption’ →
addictinginfo.org
It’s only because they’re not corporations, and corporations are people. When corporations love each other very much, they can bundle their money and make SuperPACs of DOOM!
Of course, when the people band together to fight corporate influence and exploitation, that’s wrong. When their organization chooses to donate to a political cause or candidate, that’s corrupt. Yeah, totally makes sense.
People organizing = unpatriotic, corrupt union
Businesses organizing = US Chamber of Commerce.he’s just salty that they’d never donate to his campaign. they’d totes be okay then.
The general Republican viewpoint on fundraising is “every kind of campaign donation I’m not getting is corrupt, but if they want to donate to me, that’s just freedom of speech WHY DO YOU HATE THE CONSTITUTION???”
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Really, the entire Republican party would support the extermination of all labor unions. How else will they be able to implement the following GREAT IDEAS for job growth that would certainly benefit their corporate donors at the expense of the American worker:
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.” I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” I’d like to have a word for “the sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for “the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.” I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides (via loveyourchaos)
Reblog if you consider your blog to be "body positive" - I will check you all out
I want to see how many self-proclaimed body positive blogs there are out there :)
I do, but I’m mistrustful of my own self-appraisal. I’d be interested to know.
Hindu festivals, as captured by Atlantic Monthly →
theatlantic.com
A girl dressed as Krishna poses at the Janmashtami Hindu Festival at Bhaktivedanta Manor on August 22, 2011 in Watford, England.
Click here for more breathtaking photography from Atlantic Monthly’s In Focus photography.
A monumental day for Saudi Women →
bbc.co.uk
Saudi Arabian women now have the right to vote and run in municipal elections!
THE HETEROSEXUAL QUESTIONNAIRE
©1972, Martin Rochlin, Ph.D.
1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?
3. Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
4. Could it be that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
5. If you’ve never slept with a person of the same sex, how can you be sure you wouldn’t prefer that?
6. To whom have you disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react?
7. Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyle?
8. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can’t you just be what you are and keep it quiet?
9. Would you want your children to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they’d face?
10. A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual men. Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual male teachers, pediatricians, priests, or scoutmasters?
My boyfriend just walked all the way to my work to give me a strawberry popsicle. Best Friday afternoon ever.
