March 2010
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“Step 15 It may sound like you will be drowning yourself at this point, but you...”
– How to Cure a Clogged Eustachian Tube
I was contemplating using these instructions to attempt to clear my Eustachian tube that is driving me totally insane and making it sound like i am underwater but this step has convinced me not to.
Also I do not think I am coordinated enough for all this...
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New ways of avoiding my reading
looking up the poorly cited sources glenn beck uses in his Revolutionary Holocaust…Live free or die (which was replayed tonight)
Maybe I spend an excessive amount of time watching/listening to glenn beck but I’m totally fascinated about the way he constructs/uses history. Its an especially effective tactic in the United States where we (and by we I guess I mean my fellow privileged...
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“One of the most important lessons I also learned from anarchism is that you need...”
– Black Anarchism [transcript] [via]
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Gender change on Ohio licenses OK'd →
Ohioans wanting to change their gender on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards no longer have to have their body parts medically altered, under a new policy introduced by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles this month. [via&via]
btw the BMV is still horrible. I need to go there and change my address but I really don’t want to.
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“The state, which polices gender, race, sexuality, and other aspects of identity,...”
– A Compilation of Critiques on Hate Crime Legislation [via]
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“As always, we propose hard work and honest toil. We do not, however, believe...”
– Letters Journal [via]
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“Behaviors of Brandon’s or others that enabled this kind of damage to be done.
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– Lisa Fithian: FBI Informant Brandon Darby : Sexism, Egos, and Lies
“To the grassroots members of the tea parties,
Many of you are rightly angry...”
– A CHALLENGE TO THE TEA PARTIES: EMBRACE THE CLASS STRUGGLE
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somnambulistic:
So i just joined this band and...
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“i kind of feel like an activist / intellectual culture that encourages people to...”
– mewmew foucault [via]
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I am having a particularly rough time slogging...
Quinn: i got through like another 80-100 pages in that puerto rico book
Ryan: way to go
Quinn: idg why all the radical puerto ricans have to be leninists
Ryan: haha
Quinn: seriosuly i am so sick of the struggle
Quinn: and there was one section where this woman was liek "people
became frustrated that the revolution did not come quickly and thus
turned to drugs and alcohol. what they did not understand is that this
an important part of building momentum for the real revolution" or
something
Quinn: but like seriously i feel like turning to drugs and alcohol
just to stop reading about building a cadre and forming marx study
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“Starting things is glorious, The everyday sustaining — that’s hard.”
– Donna Raynalds, director of SIDEZ, a southern Illinois economic-development nonprofit, in Cairo, Illinois: Chris Johnston, Help for Small Town
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“Johnston had invited friends to come and work at the coffee shop in exchange for...”
– Cairo, Illinois: Chris Johnston, Help for Small Town [via]
This is a pretty interesting article and brings up a lot of things i have talked to ryan about over the last several years (e.g. buildings things as opposed to running off to places where things are previously built)
I did get a pretty...
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“Detroit has a vast supply of decayed and vacant buildings, many of them...”
– Detroit: Embracing the Ruins
I find this idea both really obvious (and as mentioned, currently occurring) and also interesting in that it challenges popular ideas about what kind of ‘ruins’ are meaningful/educational/valuable/historical.
“Personified fetal images and discourse permeate popular notions of pregnancy and...”
– The Unfortunate Fetus: A Popular Discourse of Reproductive Misfortune Organizers: Amínata Maraesa (CUNY) and Lauren Fordyce (UNC – Asheville) Discussant: Rayna Rapp (NYU) looks really interesting!
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“Due to toxins in the air, water and soil, residues build up inside of our bodies...”
– Please pass on the pills - moving beyond industrial healthcare and towards wellbeing [via]
I thought this article had some potential up until this point. Obviously the metaphor of toxins building up in the body like this has a lot of resonance for a lot of people (seeing that i hear it all the...
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“Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable…there is now a...”
– James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, quoted in Detroit looks at downsizing to save city
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“Since businesses often rely on being able to exploit migrants as a permanent...”
– The Best Immigration Law is No Law at All
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“Migration is a natural thing, while the necessity of obstructions such as border...”
– The Best Immigration Law is No Law at All
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becoming-wave asked: The thing about that annoying crimethinc beer post is that it's simply untrue. Does this guy not realize how many indigenous brewing traditions there are/have been? That beer doesn't wait for agriculture or pottery to happen? BLARGH. All you need to brew booze is some kind of container and some kind of source of sugar and to let it sit around and catch yeast. I hate when primitivists...
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“The history of civilization is the history of beer. In every era and area...”
– The Anarcho-Primitivist case for Straight Edge: Against His-Story, Against Alcoholocaust! [via]
anarcho-primitivists!
idk i guess the idea that its basically impossible to have enough excess grain to cook down and use as a base for alcohol (also: a pretty decent way of storing calories so they...
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“A tendency has emerged here in Phoenix that I find very exciting. More and more,...”
– There’s no immigration law like no law at all: On revolution as the necessary conclusion of the migrant movement
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“After all, proper intellectual discussions always involve detachment and...”
– Derailing for Dummies [via]
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“Still, the obvious point here is that you can’t communize a freeway. You can...”
– Reflections on the I-980/I-880 Takeover [via]
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WatchGlenn Beck: Behind the Music
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WatchBeck and crew call Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” “anti-American”
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So I've been watching Glenn Beck again lately
me: " Glenn mentioned the Woody Guthrie classic American hit song on TV last night, and so many people were shocked to learn that this song is actually communist propaganda. Glenn goes over the words to the song, and once your brain stops mindlessly singing and actually processing the lyrics, it's quite shocking. For good measure, Glenn also reads the 'American' classic 'Born in the U.S.A' lyrics by Springsteen. What do the songs actually mean? Glenn explains on radio today."
ryan: hahaha
me: how are these people so stupid ryan
me: idk like i was shocked that "the internationale" was socialist
me: like i was horrified WHO KNEW
ryan: i know quinn its nuts
me: and come on, this land is your land? next we';ll be finding out that there is a radical history to solidarity forever
ryan: ha
me: or you know
me: the rest of woody guthries catalog
me: or you know
me: the rest of bruce springsteens catalog
me: iidk have these people ever heard bruce springsteen or woody guthrie?
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