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hedonist

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:17:12 -0400

hedonist

nothin but love for this creature

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:22:40 -0400

nothin but love for this creature

i am so pumped for friday

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:41 -0400

i am

pumped

for

friday

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Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:44 -0400

last night I got $3 in tips being a supa sweet fumbling drive thru cashier tipping customers are...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:31:17 -0400

last night I got $3 in tips being a supa sweet fumbling drive thru cashier

tipping customers are angels and y’all will be blessed ~

Angry Asian Girls United: Here I Stand.

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:33:02 -0400

Angry Asian Girls United: Here I Stand.:

dinee:

I am a Native woman.

I have a 1 in 3 chance of being sexually or domestically abused.

As I sit here, a student at Yale University, my chance of being a victim remains twice as likely than any other woman in the U.S. based on my racial category.

The 1978 Supreme Court case Oliphant v Suquamish Indian Tribe

ok so graduation night was not my best night

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:55 -0400

ok so graduation night was not my best night

Solomon, you will be missed so much. I am heartbroken that your life was so short and you...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:15:00 -0400

Solomon, you will be missed so much. I am heartbroken that your life was so short and you hadn’t experienced so much. You had the most stupid free fun of all the punks I met at FHS.

I am so sorry I didn’t go to the concert. I am so sorry you won’t be going abroad. I am so sorry we didn’t get to know each other better.

PAUL MCCARTNEY CONCERT TICKETS FOR THE CHEAP

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:25:50 -0400

may 29 he’s playing in tulsa at the BOK center

My ticket is: Lower Level 107 Row: L

The original was ~$200. I can get it to you for like ~$150 or less if i like you

The Triumph of Progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:47:43 -0400

robertreich:

Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities.

But many of you are cynical about politics. You see the system as inherently corrupt. You doubt real progress is possible.

“What chance do we have against the Koch brothers and the other billionaires?” you’ve asked me. “How can we fight against Monsanto, Boeing, JP Morgan, and Bank of America? They buy elections. They run America.”

Let me remind you: Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. You have no chance if you assume you have no chance.

“But it was different when you graduated,” you say. “The sixties were a time of social progress.”

You don’t know your history.

When I graduated in 1968, the Vietnam War was raging. Over half a million American troops were already there. I didn’t know if I’d be drafted. A member of my class who spoke at commencement said he was heading to Canada and urged us to join him.

Two months before, Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. America’s cities were burning. Bobby Kennedy had just been gunned down.

George (“segregation forever”) Wallace was on his way to garnering 10 million votes and carrying five southern states. Richard Nixon was well on his way to becoming president.

America was still mired in bigotry.

I remember a classmate who was dating a black girl being spit on in a movie theater. The Supreme Court had only the year before struck down state laws against interracial marriage.

My entire graduating class of almost 800 contained only six young black men and four Hispanics.

I remember the girlfriend of another classmate almost dying from a back-alley abortion, because safe abortions were almost impossible to get.

I remember a bright young woman law school graduate in tears because no law firm would hire her because she was a woman.

I remember one of my classmates telling me in anguish that he was a homosexual, fearing he’d be discovered and his career ruined.

The environmental movement had yet not been born. Two-thirds of America’s waterways were unsafe for swimming or fishing because of industrial waste and sewage.

I remember rivers so polluted they caught fire. When the Cuyahoga River went up in flames Time Magazine described it as the river that “oozes rather than flows,” in which a person “does not drown but decays.”

In those days, universal health insurance was a pipe dream.

It all seemed pretty hopeless. I assumed America was going to hell.

And yet, reforms did occur. America changed. The changes didn’t come easily. Every positive step was met with determined resistance. But we became better and stronger because we were determined to change.

When I graduated college I would not have believed that in my lifetime women would gain rights over their own bodies, including the legal right to have an abortion. Or women would become chief executives of major corporations, secretaries of state, contenders for the presidency. Or they’d outnumber men in college.

I would not have imagined that eleven states would allow gays and lesbians to marry, and a majority of Americans would support equal marriage rights.

Or that the nation would have a large and growing black middle class.

It would have seemed beyond possibility that a black man, the child of an interracial couple, would become President of the United States.

I would not have predicted that the rate of college enrollment among Hispanics would exceed that of whites.

Or that more than 80 percent of Americans would have health insurance, most of it through government.

I wouldn’t have foreseen that the Cuyahoga River – the one that used to catch fire regularly – would come to support 44 species of fish. And that over half our rivers and 70 percent of bays and estuaries would become safe for swimming and fishing.

Or that some 200,000 premature deaths and 700,000 cases of chronic bronchitis would have been prevented because the air is cleaner.

Or that the portion of children with elevated levels of lead in their blood would have dropped from 88 percent to just over 4 percent.

I would not have believed our nation capable of so much positive change.

Yet we achieved it. And we have just begun. Widening inequality, a shrinking middle class, global warming, the corruption of our democracy by big money – all of these, and more, must be addressed. To make progress on these — and to prevent ourselves from slipping backwards — will require no less steadfastness, intelligence, and patience than was necessitated before.

The genius of America lies in its resilience and pragmatism. We believe in social progress because we were born into it. It is our national creed.

Which is to say, I understand your cynicism. It looks pretty hopeless.

But, believe me, it isn’t.

Not if you pitch in.

anarcho-queer:

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:44:24 -0400

anarcho-queer:

apollo-kids replied to your post: I slept through my ap us gov test levi get it together austin was...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:28:54 -0400

apollo-kids replied to your post: I slept through my ap us gov test

levi get it together

austin was right i am a bed-shitter.

I am going to hell karma for things I do on a whim

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:57:03 -0400

I am going to hell karma for things I do on a whim

I slept through my ap us gov test

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:53:23 -0400

I slept through my ap us gov test

iscalox: Pangu creating the World. I used Chinese depictions of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:51:12 -0400

iscalox:

Pangu creating the World. I used Chinese depictions of Pangu for reference, but I did not give him the axe he was supposed to use to divide earth from heaven.

Pangu died, and his body went to make the world and all its elements. The wind and clouds were formed from his breath, his voice was thunder and lightning, his eyes became the sun and moon, his arms and his legs became the four directions of the compass and his trunk became the mountains. His flesh turned into the soil and the trees that grow on it, his blood into the rivers that flow and his veins into paths men travel. His body hair became the grass and herbs, and his skin the same, while precious stones and minerals were formed from his bones and teeth. His sweat became the dew and the hair of his head became the stars that trail throughout heaven. As for the parasites on his body, these became the divers races of humankind.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 22:25:10 -0400

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Sun, 12 May 2013 21:32:53 -0400

assorted snapshots of my life (punkin around not studying for physics or bio)

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:21:00 -0400

north korea is best korea - an ode to my MUN career

4/20 prom makeup low fat sweet smilez all round

september 2012 down to coffee (look how long my hair has grown?)

summin up my family in one shot. happy 18 years of motherhood dr. mama wang

kikityembe-kukutyomba: *will be rolling tomorrow

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:50:38 -0400

kikityembe-kukutyomba:

*will be rolling tomorrow

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:01:10 -0400

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY