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At one time this blog might have been about architecture, running, art, comics, and comics. Now I'm slowly piecing my life back together after it took a little bit of a detour.

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23 May 12

Alright fam

I’m out at Sasquatch in Washington sate for the next week, smell ya later

Posted: 12:24 AM
When President Obama spoke in the State of the Union of the need to send more Americans to college, it was in the context of economic competition with China, phrased as if we ought to produce graduates like steel. As the near-ubiquitous unpaid internship for credit (in which students pay tuition in order to work for free) replaces class time, the bourgeois trade school supplants the academy. Parents understandably worried about their children make sure they never forget about the importance of an attractive résumé. It was easier for students to believe a college education was priceless when it wasn’t bought and sold from every angle.
— Malcolm Harris for n+1. http://nplusonemag.com/bad-education (via utnereader)

Reblogged: utnereader

21 May 12

The news just announced big news about prostate exams

And proceeded to have sports coverage with the title Bottoms Up

Posted: 10:04 PM

Here’s a friendly reminder:

caffeinatedfeminist:

-You cannot be sexist toward men. Sexism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against men but you CANNOT be sexist toward them.

-You cannot be racist towards white people. Racism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against white people but you CANNOT be racist toward them.

I mean they are both descriptors of forms of discriminatory patterns, neither of which holds an oppression clause. By the book they are just to describe sex discrimination and race discrimination.

Reblogged: adjectivelyamber

Posted: 3:34 AM
Posted: 2:48 AM

I took a picture of my caek for you

but my iPad disallows uploading of pictures. Soon. Soon tumblr there will be cake

Posted: 2:45 AM

riskykitten:

nothinggg:

steelcity:

nstratton:

keenpeach:

25 abandoned Yugoslavia monuments that look like they’re from the future

“These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place or where concentration camps stood. They were designed by different sculptors and architects, conveying powerful visual impact to show the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic. In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their ‘patriotic education.’ After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost. From 2006 to 2009, Kempenaers toured around the ex-Yugoslavia region with the help of a 1975 map of memorials, bringing before our eyes a series of melancholy yet striking images.”

woah

So nice

It breaks my heart.

oh my god

Reblogged: flashgorman

18 May 12

So I know that colleges are Evil, but damn

I was supposed to get a refund of like 3 grand for last semester and they just said they awarded it to me on March 7th even though they never ever did. So until we started asking questions we didn’t know that we had to have a refund form filled out to get the money.

Meaning they would have fucking kept my money even though they never gave me the money back? 

Additionally they require you to have a direct deposit account set up with them in order to receive refunds in the first place. Which is something we hadn’t done because we don’t want to get billed for things we don’t know about.

Posted: 12:06 AM

ourpresidents:

Oh Socks, you ham.  Here are some fun facts courtesy of Dear Socks, Dear Buddy; Kids’ Letters to The First Pets by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Socks Stats
Type of Cat: Domestic Short Hair
Date of Birth: Unknown
Member of the Clinton Family since: March 1991
Height (Head to Paw): 14.5 inches
Weight: 9 pounds in 1998
Favorite Activity: Taking a Catnap
Favorite Bug to Catch: Spiders
Favorite Hideout in the White House: In a chair outside the Oval Office

Want more photos of Socks? - Meow!

-from the Clinton Library

(Source: thedorseyshawexperience)

Reblogged: ourpresidents

17 May 12

It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies. Consider this one.

If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.

This idea is an article of faith for Republicans and seldom challenged by Democrats and has shaped much of today’s economic landscape.

But sometimes the ideas that we know to be true are dead wrong. For thousands of years people were sure that earth was at the center of the universe. It’s not, and an astronomer who still believed that it was, would do some lousy astronomy.

In the same way, a policy maker who believed that the rich and businesses are “job creators” and therefore should not be taxed, would make equally bad policy.

I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all those jobs would have evaporated.

That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a “circle of life” like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.

Reblogged: utnereader

16 May 12
exquisitebeast:

Thirty-five! It didn’t stay cute long. It’s still subterranean; its eyes and hindmost legs are more atrophied while its front limbs have become great huge ape-arms. A fleshy extension beside the front digging-claws approximates a thumb, so it has a limited ability to grab and manipulate things.

exquisitebeast:

Thirty-five! It didn’t stay cute long. It’s still subterranean; its eyes and hindmost legs are more atrophied while its front limbs have become great huge ape-arms. A fleshy extension beside the front digging-claws approximates a thumb, so it has a limited ability to grab and manipulate things.

Reblogged: exquisitebeast

Posted: 12:21 AM
elesheva:

the campaign emails sure have started to get sassy

elesheva:

the campaign emails sure have started to get sassy

Reblogged: elesheva

14 May 12
inothernews:

MOUNT EVER-RED   A mountain seemingly glows red as the sun’s rays break through clouds at sunrise in Glacier National Park, Montana.  (Photo: Harry Litchman / Solent News via The Telegraph)

inothernews:

MOUNT EVER-RED   A mountain seemingly glows red as the sun’s rays break through clouds at sunrise in Glacier National Park, Montana.  (Photo: Harry Litchman / Solent News via The Telegraph)

Reblogged: poptech

Posted: 7:04 PM
dresdencodak:

tangleflower:



I’m reblogging this because I forgot that I wrote all this. Twitter can do that.

dresdencodak:

tangleflower:

I’m reblogging this because I forgot that I wrote all this. Twitter can do that.

Reblogged: rosalarian

Posted: 12:24 PM
npr:

I wonder what the other side of this card looks like?
laughingsquid:

Back To The Future Actor’s Frequently Asked Questions Business Card

npr:

I wonder what the other side of this card looks like?

laughingsquid:

Back To The Future Actor’s Frequently Asked Questions Business Card

Reblogged: npr

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh