January 2012
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“Lua,” Bright Eyes, I’m Wide...
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Folks, I give you, the 2012 Republican...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
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“Everything must have been once. That’s why life seems to me like a ghostly...”
– E.M. Cioran, Tears and Saints (via touba)
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“I would’ve never believed that I’d forget you:
the sound of your laugh, the...”
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, “Old Boys” (via grammatolatry)
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“If I have any romantic notions left,
please let me abandon them here
on the...”
– 4th of July, Keetje Kuipers (via jessieflux)
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“If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among...”
– Rick Santorum, pledging to significantly reduce federal funding for food stamps, arguing that the nation’s increasing obesity rates render the program unnecessary (via sleeplessinsouthie)
eclecticspectrum: *blank stare*
(via eclecticspectrum)
If food stamps worked at Trader Joes and Whole Foods...
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Are We Human or Are We Pancake?: I'd Like a Little... →
whiskeyrobot:
and I’d like to get naked and into bed and be hot radiating heat from the inside these sweaters and fleeceys do nothing to keep out the out or keep my vitals in—some drafty body I’ve got leaking in and out in all directions I’d like to get naked into bed but hot on this early winter afternoon…
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“Beginnings are brutal, like this accident
of stars colliding, mute explosions...”
– Each Sound, Dorianne Laux
(via grammatolatry)
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burnjoyfully:
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Man Man -...
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Watchgirlsgetbusyzine:
DIRTY DIARIES: FEMINIST PORN
“Dirty Diaries is a diverse collection of Swedish feminist porn: Hardcore action and vanilla sex, queer and straight, flashing and fucking, provocation, penetration and poetry. Orgasms and art in films for the open adult mind.”
THE MANIFESTO!
1. Beautiful the way we are
To hell with the sick beauty ideals! Deep self-hatred keeps a lot of...
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...antertainment...: Kim Addonizio "The Numbers" →
antertainer:
How many nights have I lain here like this, feverish with plans, with fears, with the last sentence someone spoke, still trying to finish a conversation already over? How many nights were wasted in not sleeping, how many in sleep—I don’t know how many hungers there are, how much radiance or…
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via atramentum)
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"Jean Rhys," by Ellen Kennedy
I’m preparing myself for an extended period of loneliness
That will begin very soon I think
I’ve illegally downloaded two new depressing songs
I’ve placed a copy of Good Morning, Midnight under my pillow for easy reference
I’ve printed out the tablature for every Morrissey song I know so I can sing them to myself
Alone in my room
Just a few things are needed...
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Degrassé →
theantidote:
adj. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of earshot—worlds and stars who would’ve been lost entirely except for the scrap of light they were...
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“Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals of (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“Mineshaft II,” Dessa, A Badly Broken...
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"Everything," by Srikanth Reddy
poesies:
She was watching the solar eclipse through a piece of broken bottle when he left home. He found a blue kite in the forest on the day she lay down with a sailor. When his name changed, she stitched a cloud to a quilt made of rags. They did not meet, so they never could be parted. So she finished her prayer, and he folded his map of the sea.
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