AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE
FUCKING NAILED IT
A+ commentary!
THANK YOU
Yup. It’s when you look past the individual interaction and look at long-standing trends that you can more accurately comment on what is actually happening.
(Source: flowers-for-mr-ukki)
What do you do when you’re a bystander witness to a heated discussion about systems of oppression, but they’re getting it wrong? e.g., defending the UCLA student’s right to a racist youtube video?!, perpetuating internalized intragroup racism, calling oneself a minority instead of a POC, etc.?
1. Nothing like running two blocks to catch your bus to wake you up and make you want to crawl back into bed at the same time.
2. Why is there so much traffic this morning? Because Los Angeles loses all ability to drive when the weather isn’t sunny and 70 degrees.
The latest development is a humiliating blow to the APA.
Ohio Republicans now want to punish state universities that encourage students to cast a ballot. Under a budget amendment filed by Republicans in the Ohio House, state universities that provide documents enabling students to register to vote in their college town, rather than in the state where their parents reside, will be forbidden from charging those students out-of-state tuition. Thus, the amendment would effectively reduce the funding of state schools that assist their students in registering to vote.
This is what Republicans consider protecting our freedoms?
Why do I always do this to myself?! Another day wasted away with distractions rather than focused paper-writing, despite sitting in front of the computer for most of the day.
Well, at least tomorrow’s another day.
Remembered my keys today, but forgot my lunch (w/ already-peeled bananas).
It’s been a rough week.
Suicides Outnumber Auto Deaths in US
This NY Times article says that suicides spiked upward sharply after our economic downturn: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/health/suicide-rate-rises-sharply-in-us.html?hp&_r=0More people died in 2010 from suicide (38,384) than from auto accidents (33,687), increasing an horrendous 31% in a decade. Researchers commented that suicide is “vastly underreported”, including, one might suspect, a lot of the auto accidents.
Baby boomers had the highest rate of suicides of any generation. The suicide rate for men in their fifties rose by 50% vs 1999. This is not surprising. In 2004, AARP reported that 72% of boomers thought their lives would be better in five years (e.g. 2009) and only 5% thought they would be worse. 48% said they would rather be spontaneous than plan their lives in detail.
So much for spontaneity… For boomers, the 2008 crash was like a Force V hurricane blowing off the roofs of a lot of shoddily constructed homes. Only now are the finding all the bodies…
Wow….there are just no words…
Holy fuck. Stop it. Stop it now. When did loyalty to the Southern Confederacy become a hallmark of modern-day Patriotism?!?!
(Source: mediamattersforamerica)
“You know, I don’t even see you as black.”
Watching this story of Clay Hunt, a Marine veteran who ended up committing suicide, I can’t help but notice the stark similarities between his mentality and the mentality of other Marines I know. I can’t help but think that there is no safe zone after you’ve spent time in the service…
Why Failure Matters (h/t The Dish)
That space between who we are and who we can be…
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