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sdzoo: Not..Letting..Go… by taekalibub - A. Bautista on...

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:27:56 -0400

sdzoo:

Not..Letting..Go… by taekalibub - A. Bautista on Flickr.

Koala love

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:21:38 -0400

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:55:56 -0400

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be in the tumblr laws. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:54:54 -0400

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hehehehe theatlantic: Don’t ask. Just reblog.

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:53:50 -0400

hehehehe

theatlantic:

Don’t ask. Just reblog.

Starting new.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:40:45 -0400

can be a beautiful thing.

guardian: Morning Tumblr! Today we’re celebrating World autism...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:30:51 -0400

guardian:

Morning Tumblr! Today we’re celebrating World autism awareness day with our Monday morning post. In the last two decades there has been a steady increase in the prevalence of autism globally. Some people talk of it as an epidemic, with statistics estimating as many as one in 100 people are affected. We have a series of photographs are of students at the MacIntyre residential school in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, for young people with severe learning disabilities, including autism. Reblog to make more people aware of autism.

Birchbox Man: The Man Who Broke Atlantic City: Must Read of the Day

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:18:31 -0400

Birchbox Man: The Man Who Broke Atlantic City: Must Read of the Day :

birchboxman:

Photo: theatlantic.com

From Mark Bowden’s fascinating The Atlantic piece:

“I was ready to play on,” Johnson said. “And I looked around, and I said, ‘Are you going to do a fill?’ I’ve got every chip in the tray. I think I even had the $100 chips. ‘Are you guys going to do a fill?’…

Mugabe's going to destroy Zimbabwe...again

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:43:20 -0500

Mugabe's going to destroy Zimbabwe...again

Where the light is

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:15:09 -0500

The light is whatever you make it: hope, love, a person, a pet, peace, a dream, your spirituality, or a combination of it all. Just keep that light close to you, and allow it to radiate through you.

Find that light and you will be lit bright. And if you keep a hold of that light, always, it will never grow dull, never wane. The flame will burn on in what you do and in who you are.

Politicalprof: Republicans and "Smaller" Government

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:12:47 -0500

Politicalprof: Republicans and "Smaller" Government:

politicalprof:

One constantly hears that Republicans are the party of small government while Democrats are the party of big government. And, of course, the person making this claim usually makes it clear that small government is good and big government is bad.

Except, of course, this characterization of the…

huffingtonpost: Sotheby’s estimates that the work, which has...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:31 -0500

huffingtonpost:

Sotheby’s estimates that the work, which has become a modern icon of human anxiety, will sell for $80 million or more.

NYC Art Sale To Feature Munch’s ‘The Scream’

thepoliticalnotebook: Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:57:00 -0500

thepoliticalnotebook:

Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, has died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. Shadid was an incredible journalistic talent.

The Times executive editor Jill Abramson has said in a statement:

Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces.

Photo: Shadid in Cairo last February. Ed Ou/NYT.

twloha: Follow TWLOHA’s Here We Collide.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:28:05 -0500

twloha:

Follow TWLOHA’s Here We Collide.

sandandglass: The Chase. Jon and Stephen Together (Redux).

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:02:48 -0500

sandandglass:

The Chase. Jon and Stephen Together (Redux).

Neo-conservative radicalization in America as a function of Islamic radicalization elsewhere.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:00 -0500

The following is my response to a comment on a blog about how US has terrorized the world for 200 years and that much of the world’s problems are the fault of the US. They also stated that it was the whole of the US: all of its people were willful participations in its degradation of the world. Obviously I disagreed.

I posit a simple position. I assert that an ideology: neo-conservatism (which took hold Post-WW2) disproportionally benefited the established wealthy and powerful & required a broader control of the news media which insights long-term changes in public thought. Neo-conservatism was a reaction to moral relativism, the same moral relativism recognized by Qutb in Colorado, by Marx in London, etc. It is a devaluation of religious morals from the context of economic liberalism.

Your statement that the US has been terrorizing the world for 200 years is bogus. We really began to intervene internationally in the early 1900s, but our true role as “world terrorizer (or a global superpower - depending on your scope), emerged after Europe was devastated World War. The emergence of the neo-conservative ideology established the logical justification for American intervention abroad. The crux of its execution established a greater need for large media conglomerates owned and operated by a few individuals. Fox News, perhaps the most iconic of this, perpetuates this conservative & neo-conservative interpretation of philosophy, economics, and politics.

What this all means is simple: in the search of a perpetuation of power, a small fringe element within American politics grew quite radically and simply, employing techniques that utilized emotion: fear and anger, and eventually blinded many. The process is disillusion of the majority of people towards progressive values and views, which created cognitive dissonance and allowed for a more easy conversion to the professed values & platform of the neo-conservative movement.

A small fringe element hijacked American values, and used them as a cloak for political gain. Just as a small fringe element of Islam, hijacked the religion, and used it as a cloak for political gain.

I’d argue that this is the inevitability of an unbalanced world model.

Politicalprof: The Son is not the Father

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:23:09 -0500

Politicalprof: The Son is not the Father:

politicalprof:

Governor George Romney (R-Michigan, father of Mitt) was a passionate advocate for civil rights. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of this passion came at the Republican National Convention in 1964, which was held, if you can believe it, in San Francisco.

George Romney walked out of the…