January 2012
6 posts
Mohandas Gandhi: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
RT @helenlewis: Classy. Catholic Herald compares Gay Pride to BNP rally, praises Tesco for withdrawing sponsorship http://t.co/9PG24CU5 …
December 2011
20 posts
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own…
An exemplar of the collapse of Modernism or the high-culture/mass-culture divide: Jedward is Guardian’s ‘In praise of’ http://t.co/cUDyTmVf
Just ordered The Brainstorm by Jenny Turner - apparently is ‘woven through with Hegel’ (Indy review). Haven’t read a decent novel in ages…
Aha! Just the thing to banish my festive spirit and rekindle hatred: http://t.co/oHnvLv37
RT @spitzenprodukte: @kpunk99 A right-to-reply piece- “If you do like Capitalism so much, why don’t you go and live in China?”
I was just rated ‘Che Guevara incarnate’ in the Guardian’s ‘How revolutionary are you?’ test. http://t.co/WnypcTT6
Next 3wks(in ascending order of awesome): rush through Tess of d’Urb; then Kant, F.Jameson, Hegel (for a mild brain melt) and finally Badiou
“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.” - William Hazlitt
RT @TorianBrown: “When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.” -George Orwell …
What you need to know about the EU treaty: it enforces balanced budgets and near-zero structural deficits for all, i.e. it bans Keynesianism
LA becomes the first major US city to vote against corporate personhood: first few steps towards Occupy Victory! http://t.co/ur8fj17g
I’ve hit the wall of apathy. Bring on the holidays so that I can go back to learning.
Why were we at school today? More specifically, why were our teachers at school today? I believe some NUT/NASUWT memberships are lacking…
November 2011
25 posts
I say something. No one else agrees. Standard. Now, who wants to argue about Marxism? “No war but class war! Balls to the Bourgeoisie!” etc
Benefits of the decline of marriage:1) women’s emancipation from legal bondage 2) the hilarious reaction from Tories http://t.co/MKe6EOIv
I’ve been dared to read all 12 papers from JSTOR in two days. Challenge accepted. See you on the other side.
Best article I’ve read in weeks. http://t.co/nYvy1RXx via @guardian
An 84 yr old woman after being hit with pepper spray at Occupy Seattle. http://t.co/SXVLa4sO
Hate it when school gets in the way of my true education. I want to read Fredric Jameson and Kant but I’m hauling an English essay instead.
“I got a Kindle and now people can’t see how intellectual my reading is.”
– First World Problems (via epic4chan)
What about an effort to get rid of anonymity in comments? #stampoutmisogynyonline
Word of the day: Reify (or Reification) — To consider an abstract idea as if it were a concrete/material thing; a form of objectification.
RT @ns_mehdihasan: Arggghhghghgh - Theresa May just compared the economy to a “credit card”. Kill me. Kill me now. #bbcqt
RT @sunny_hundal: Hah! Theresa May tries ‘they’re anti-capitalist protesters so why are they drinking Starbucks?’ line. No one laughs. # …
