August 2011
88 posts
"It's time to put on an outraged face." -Charles Bivona #quote
Spread of Earthquake-Related Tweets
Am I the only one who thinks that looks a lot like a neuron?
Below is a visual of the Tweets from VA and Washington, DC one minute after the August 23 #earthquake.
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“A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck in Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, with tremors felt as far away as New York City. [& NJ]”
—@HuffingtonPost
“Bachmann was mentored by a crackpot Christian extremist professor named John Eidsmoe, a frequent contributor to John Birch Society publications who once opined that he could imagine Jesus carrying an M16 and who spent considerable space in one of his books musing about the feasibility of criminalizing blasphemy.”
—Matt Taibbi
“Young Michele [Bachmann] found Jesus at age 16, not long before she went away to Winona State University and met a doltish, like-minded believer named Marcus Bachmann. After finishing college, the two committed young Christians moved to Oklahoma, where Michele entered one of the most ridiculous learning institutions in the Western Hemisphere, a sort of highway rest area with legal accreditation called the O.W. Coburn School of Law; Michele was a member of its inaugural class in 1979.”
—Matt Taibbi
“We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the young discover their gifts and potential—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point.”
—Chris Hedges
“A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.”
—Chris Hedges
“After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, “I fuck therefore I am”.”
—Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (via aperfectcommotion)
“A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man.”
—Forrest Wilder
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