June 2012
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In media reports on women’s issues—abortion, birth... →
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stfusexists:
Shocker.
Because if there is one thing that is severely lacking when it comes to abortion and reproductive rights, it’s a man’s opinion.
Not like we just had an entire panel of (religious) men testify to congress about birth control use and how they oppose it…and no women…at all.
Love,
Rabble
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May 2012
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homosaurus-rex:
It’s actually a good thing that the zombie apocalypse starts in Florida because then the zombies only have one way to go and that’s straight up into trigger happy redneck territory. I give it two weeks before monster trucks and mullets save us.
“Karl Marx had it right. At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot...”
– Economist Nouriel Roubini in a WSJ interview. He earned the nickname “Dr Doom” for predicting the current financial crisis. (via warofpositionist)
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“These [Distracted Driving] laws give police officers yet another pretext to...”
– Peter Johnson, General Partner of the Johnson & Johnson law firm in Walnut Creek, California. Johnson’s firm has filed a lawsuit challenging California’s “Distracted Driving” law. 68,000 California drivers were issued citations for Distracted Driving last month alone. (via letterstomycountry)
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“The only way to ensure [global] food security is by creating decent jobs, paying...”
– UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Calling for a “transition to sustainable agriculture” the report,Towards The Future We Want, says that will entail world governments making “fundamental changes in the governance of food and agriculture and an equitable sharing of the transition costs...
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“After interviewing more than 20 tribal leaders, victims’ relatives, human rights...”
– Medea Benjamin
h/t anticapitalist
(via letterstomycountry)
I wanted to post this quote too, but LTMC beat me to it.
(via anticapitalist)
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The wealthy aren't the 'Job Creators'
anticapitalist:
libertarians-and-stoya:
anticapitalist:
An article by Paul Buchheit illustrates what the rich REALLY do with their money:
Marketwatch estimates that over 90% of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), the stock market, and real estate. According to economist Richard Wolff, about half of the assets of the richest...
“Mitt Romney won the Texas Republican primary last night, crossing the crucial...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
“One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil.”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, quoted by Jung to Freud (via psychotherapy)
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Nope.
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Are Men's Bodies Repulsive?
letterstomycountry:
Apropos of this recent post about Male objectification, I happened upon Hugo Schwyzer’s March 2011 article at the Good Men Project reflecting on male body image issues:
In sixth grade, the same year that puberty hit me with irrevocable force, I had an art teacher, Mr. Blake…[who said] that great artists all acknowledged that the female form was more beautiful than the...
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