January 2012
“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall...”
– Native American prophecy (via pyrrhic-victoria)
The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s civil... →
tsotchke:
of-praxis:
Romney tapped El Salvador’s wealthy families, including one linked to right-wing death squads
Back in 1984, wealthy Salvadoran families were looking for safe investments as violence and upheaval engulfed the country. The war, which pitted leftist guerrillas against a right-wing government backed by the Reagan administration, ultimately left over 70,000 people dead in ...
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they...”
– W.H Auden. Musee des Beaux Arts (via soapboxsadie)
Voting is not about truth, or justice, or even...
“I believe in a personal god who cares and worries and oversees everything I do....”
– American Gods by Neil Gaiman (via thechocolatebrigade)
December 2011
“ “Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the...”
– George Lakoff, American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Mark Johnson, Metaphors we live by, University Of Chicago Press, 2003. (via amiquote)
bellswithin:
We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
Hamlet. Act V, sc. ii.
