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here you'll find mostly pictures (none of which are mine unless noted otherwise) that interest me, food porn, excerpts from books i am reading or want to read, random memes and occasionally something insightful or political.
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Students across U.S. plan to protest education funding cuts
Dissatisfaction, anger and an uncertain future have led professors and students in California and across the country to call for a day of action Thursday to defend education at state colleges and universities.
Honora Keller, a fifth-year student at San Francisco State University, has to work three jobs to keep up. “I have to eat, buy books and [pay] tuition, and I’m still taking out more loans,” she said.
“People are taking semesters off to save for tuition. It’s a common conversation you hear everywhere on campus,” Keller said.
Similar conversations are taking place across the country as states slash funding not only for colleges, but also for elementary and secondary education. That’s why protests of various kinds are planned Thursday in at least 29 states.
HEY CHRIS…THIS IS YOU. dearest chris christie… “cut your waist before you cut our budget.”
I don’t get it. I write my name on emails as Abbi and when I get a reply it says “Hello, Abby”
like… really? You can’t just read what I wrote?
OH MY GOD. MY DUMB BITCH FINANCIAL AID BITCH. sent me an email that started “dear caitlin” then, i signed my response “- caitlyn” and then she responded with “dear kaitlyn”
THERE IS NO WINNING.
THIS HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE TIME.
this movie and this song are fantastic! check it out …mathieu kassovitz’s La Haine (Hatred). you can get the whole movie on youtube with subtitles!
I GOT A HAIR(S) CUT! a little short but i guess it’s okay!
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
the planet smashers - save it
love is waiting on the shelf while i’m too scared to be a friend. wandering around the world trying to find myself, i turn around one day and there you are. don’t save it cause the right time is the one we’re in, so no more waiting to begin. open up my heart, gonna let it sing. each grain of sand is everything. the truth is never quite so far, we can never walk away from where we are.
WHAT I ACTUALLY READ OVER WINTER BREAK:
Here is what I aimed for:
“…my BARE MINIMUM winter reading list is as follows:
- The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills.
- Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
- Nausea - Sartre
- Culture of Fear -Barry Glassner
- The Construction of Social Reality - John R. Searle
- Tartuffe- Moliere
- Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
- The Jungle - Sinclair …”
After procrastination/pure laziness, here is what was actually accomplished:
- Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (good but overrated. ..and BTW the movie looks awful)
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories (including “The Death of Ivan Ilych”) - Leo Tolstoy ( i now LOVE Tolstoy and can’t wait to dig into his novels)
- Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner (will make you never want to watch the news again…)
- Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America- Barbara Ehrenreich (great insight/perspective but feels stretched at times…comes off as rather abrasive in her view but the read is still worth your time)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon (really intriguing and fun to read but the ending disappointed me)
- Half of The Winter of Our Discontent - Steinbeck (couldn’t get into it…i love Steinbeck’s message but he is often too wordy for me to enjoy)
- Half of The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells (again, couldn’t get into it)
so i guess i didn’t do too poorly but still.
“So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs. … We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab was the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can’t. What has changed in America?”
Bill O’Reilly, via Tapped.
i dunno, bill, maybe we’re becoming less oppressive and discriminatory? perhaps this is a change that should be embraced and encouraged, rather than mourned? unless you view it as having lost some of the white privilege that should rightfully be yours by no merit other than being white, but only a racist bigot would do that.
Adam Serwer’s response was pretty perfect:
The subtext of this lament is O’Reilly mourning the demise of what he refers to as the “white Christian male power structure.” It’s not really that you “can’t” make racist jokes anymore; it’s that you when you make them, you can’t expect everyone to remain silent as you assert your cultural or racial superiority through humor.
(via robot-heart-politics)
Cheerios Maker (General Mills) Linked to Rainforest Destruction
An activist group, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), linked General Mills to destruction of rainforests in Southeast Asia in dramatic fashion on Tuesday, when it unfurled a giant banner, reading “Warning: General Mills Destroys Rainforests”, outside the company’s Minneapolis headquarters building. The stunt was executed to highlight the role that palm oil consumption has in deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Expansion of oil palm plantations over the past twenty years has emerged as one of the biggest threats to the Southeast Asia’s rainforests.
RAN says that at least a hundred General Mills products, including goods sold under Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Stovetop Hamburger Helper and Toaster Strudel brands, contain palm oil or palm oil derivatives. RAN is calling for General Mills to commit to buying only responsibly-sourced palm oil.
This Is How I Feel When Out Of Milk.
Time to hit up the grocery store for some dairy, bitches!
PS: I totally zoned out and forgot this was a reblog and not a random internet photo, so I have to give massive loves to ngelic and elliewaller now! Sorry!
WANT this cat…holy crap, it’s so cute …
