January 2012
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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into...”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (via human-voices)
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Held Captive: Student loan debt and the case for...
The ballooning cost of higher education is not a secret. Student loan amounts have doubled in the last decade and have now surpassed $1 trillion, making it higher than credit card debt. This debt disrupts the most productive years in a young person’s life; when they are starting a career, travelling, starting a family, buying a home, or simply living. People cannot be free when they are chained to...
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“I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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Liberal acquiescence to the Military-Industrial...
“Republicans are always trying to get to the right of Obama, but they’ve had a hard time getting to the right of him on national defense.”- Bill Maher
I’ve been thinking about that for the last week and it has been obvious that for the last three years President Obama has directed the U.S foreign and military policy in the same general direction as the Bush administration. There are...
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If SOPA & PIPA fail.....
….there will be proof that the democratic process actually works. Now only if we applied the same activism to world peace, hunger, and injustice we would be getting somewhere.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
– Martin Luther King., Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963 (via politicalprof)
Inspirational Thought
human-voices:
““To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language...
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Inspirational thought
“Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism. It’s worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, un-progressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow ...
