May 2010
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“How long will the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds...”
–  Maria Stewart, Black orator, intellectual, & first American woman to deliver a public speech; lecture before assembly at Boston’s African Masonic Hall (1833).
May 31st
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Oil, Poverty and violence. →
(via socialisimo)
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“…Rather die freemen than live to be slaves…Let your motto be Resistance!...”
–  Henry Highland Grimes, addressing the National Convention of Colored Citizens (1843).
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 25th
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May 23rd
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Epitaph On A Tyrant
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. —— W. H Auden (1939)
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the...”
– George Grosz (via socialisimo)
May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“Courtesy requires that Negro girls and women, as well as other women, be given...”
– from The Trend Among the Races (1922) in which accomplished Black social scientist & religious leader, George Edmund Haynes (Ph.D) makes a few (still) scandalously polemial claims*: First, that racism weighs heaviest upon women— particularly those of African descent. A frighteningly...
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 14th
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““Damn it, I wish I were six years old.” “What? Why?”...”
– from The Hole Man by Larry Niven (1975)
May 12th
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May 12th
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WatchWatch
The Whale That Exploded I don’t know what’s more disturbing: that this even happened or that it’s happened about 100 times before and folks are just now trying to get to the bottom of things. *KA-BOOM-SPLAT* Scientist: OMG, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT??!1! OtherScientist: I think that whale just exploded. Scientist: Oh. *goes back to more important science-y things*
May 12th
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May 11th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 8th
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(Not Really That) Mean Girls
*walking, arm-in-arm, down Mass Ave. late last night/early this morning*
Her: Are they playing dodge ball?!
Me: I do believe it's four square.
Her: They ARE playing four square! [shouts @ undergrads in the park] DORKS!!
Me [hollers over]: Ha, you fucking DWEEBS!
Her: Ahahahahahaha!
Me [laughing]: Cambridge nerds...
Everyone knows dodge ball > four square.
May 8th
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If you get lost between the Moon & NYC
LIZ: The moms were right - there's no such thing as Astronaut Mike Dexter. What am I doing?
BUZZ: I'm sorry if I've disappointed you. Would you like to yell at the Moon with Buzz Aldrin?
LIZ: Yes. Please.
BUZZ [turning to window, gesturing toward the Moon]: I own you!
LIZ: You dumb Moon!
BUZZ: I walked on your face!
LIZ: Don't you know it's day, idiot?
May 7th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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The Lord Works In Mysterious Ways
God: Hey.
Me: Hey.
God: What're you doin'?
Me: Looking for a new swimsuit.
God: Didn't you just by one?
Me: Yeah...but I took it back. Now I can't decide between the black bikini or the white one...
God: Hmm, what about red?
Me: *GASP* YESSSSS!!
God: It's on sale, too. Only $10.
Me: [snatches it & runs to the cashier]
God: Cool. [yells after] Well, have fun in Barbados!
Me: [hollers back] Will do! THX!!
May 6th
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May 5th
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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