November 2011
Works cited
shitmystudentswrite:
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
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These days, they fade to another
I love it when the “random play” function on my phone’s music app serves up a well-paired segue. These two songs perfectly suited this slow, dreary morning.
Cracker — My Life is Totally Boring Without You
Elliott Smith — Coming Up Roses
Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 A Minute For... →
fearandwar:
Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for each of the 2,000 detainees it holds, and rakes in yearly profits between $35 million and $50 million.
Prisoners held in this remote...
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Profiled as the whiniest races
Oh, gee, I wonder why.
shitmystudentswrite:
Racial profiling has been around forever and can happen to any race, of any kind, at any time. However African Americans, Hispanics, and descendants from the Middle East are far more likely to complain about it than any other race.
Games for really unpopular children.
stumplane:
nevver:
Sadminton.
Connect Four Or Go To Your Room.
Super Racist Mario.
Tambourine Hero.
Jenga.
Sonic The Hedge. Ned Hepburn
SADMINTON
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“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of...”
– Harry S. Truman (via dreamhampton1)
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“Although it has been effectively disguised, we have lived through a whole...”
– David Harvey, “Neo-Liberalism as Creative Destruction”, Geografiska Annaler, 88(2):157 (2006)
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Shalom, motherf*ckers
shitmystudentswrite:
Our house was a constant target for drive-by shootings and mazel tov cocktails.
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“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the Middle...”
– Eugene Victor Debs, June 16, 1918
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“Remember, the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system....”
– Slavoj Zizek at Open Forum, Occupy Wall Street, October 9. (via domesticterrorism)
“[W]e demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose...”
– We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition. (via nickbaumann) 