May 2011
“The last thing the Labour leadership wants right now is the bother of governing....”
– Dan Hind
Santorum (neologism) - Wikipedia, the free... →
“There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have...”
– Noam Chomsky (via sarahlee310)
Tryouts on Friday
mmajasmine:
So on Friday I’m heading to Vegas to try out for the UFC’s ring girls promotion. Please please please give me your support!!
These are my girls Tanya and Lisa, they already made it and will be at the UFC tournament in Chicago this July. Yeah I know they’re hot lol
The UFC looks a lot different over there from how it looks over here.
“…we’re in a strange state now where people who actually take textbook economics...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot)
“Capital continues to flow in quest of profit, and this process itself...”
– Joyce Kolko (1988)
“The liberal class, despite becoming an object of widespread public scorn,...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
“Theories of the postmodern — whether celebratory or couched in the...”
– Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
“Around 30 years ago psychologist Benjamin Libet discovered that if you ask...”
– New Scientist - The grand delusion: Who’s in control?
As Richard Carrier observed, this is just nonsense. The failure of thinking on display here dessicates under the merest intellectual pressure. Here’s the quote again:
Around 30 years ago psychologist Benjamin Libet discovered that if you ask...
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Inside the Apple iPad factory →
The site of Friday’s explosion was massive 8-building complex thrown together in a record 70 days
The factories were constructed in record time specifically to meet demand for Apple’s (AAPL) iPad 2. With its Shenzhen factory operating at full capacity churning out, according to Chang, 2.5 million first-generation iPads a month, Foxconn needed 50 new production lines capable of...
“The ambiguity of competition evident in Friedman’s definitions of competition...”
– John Bellamy Foster, Robert McChesney and R Jamil Jonna
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Public Gothic →
cameronmoll:
Really liking this typeface, and really loving how they presented it using vintage metal oil cans.
/via Mark Wyner
Never mind that bin Laden chappy, we've tracked... →
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“After the masturbation shoot ends, we go downstairs, where his new show...”
– Emily Nussbaum, from her interview with Louis CK.
Jews on a train, and other stories
In which I finally stop banging on about my weekend in Paris
May I indulge in some well-intentioned stereotyping? Then I’ll begin.
So, yes, my 50th birthday trip to Paris with TrophyWife was indeed a trip. I’ve been there quite a few times, as it’s only 200 miles away. But, since my first visit on business 20 years ago, most of those times have been with the kids to Disneyland....
Psychology Today: Why Are Black Women Less... →
blackamazon:
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so-treu:
this is an article. this is an article that exists. and this is where you can go to tell these people how full of racist bullshit they are.
that article was appallingly disgusting on so many levels
equating a higher level of testosterone with unattractiveness- first of all, why is more testosterone magically a bad thing? Are women automatically...
Global capitalism and 21st century fascism →
Global inequalities and the impoverishment of broad majorities mean that transnational capitals cannot find productive outlets to unload the enormous amounts of surplus it has accumulated. By the 21st century, the TCC turned to several mechanisms to sustain global accumulation, or profit making, in the face of this crisis.
One is militarised accumulation; waging wars and interventions that...
May Day International | NEW: The Academy is the... →
“The institutions themselves are a key part of the problem. The Left must not content itself with fighting a rearguard action merely to mitigate the successive waves of educational neoliberalisation, but must reclaim the university along the lines Chomsky proposed over 40 years ago. We have the opportunity, as the final nail is driven into the coffin of the public university, to reimagine...
“What we have in academia, in other words, is a microcosm of the American economy...”
– Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education | The Nation (via heatherwis)
Thank you, @bmichael and @andrewfm! Young...