June 2012
18 posts
“There have always been a lot of Americans who are troubled by the clinical discussions of sex in public life. They suspect — and with some cause — that tricking sexuality out in a lab coat is a way of detaching it from the moral control of the family and the community.”
—Geoff Nunberg, Taboo Revival: Talking Private Parts in Public Places (via nprfreshair)
“This is purely cultural and partisan. The poor and working classes in this country will be much better off under this law. I don’t know if anyone has the audacity to claim otherwise. Poor minorities don’t necessarily know anything more about the law than poor white people, but they’re likely to assume it will help them. Obama passed it, after all, and they support him. But poor whites find it hard to believe that President Obama, for whom they harbor a deep cultural and partisan opposition, would do anything to really improve their lives. Because this law will make life better for poor and working class Americans and bring health insurance to over 30 million people, Republicans have difficulty arguing against it on the merits. Their only decent argument is that it’s unaffordable and, especially, that the medicaid expansion will place intolerable financial burdens on state governments. But that assumes a certain set of priorities. It assumes, at the federal level, that our military spending must be increased and remain at constant war levels, and that it is more important for the rich to have low taxes than for the poor to have health care. At the state and local level, it assumes that governments should go on making unsustainable commitments to public sector workers.”
—Jesse Curtis (via azspot)
TSK: This happens to students/residents ALL the time...
- Cranquis: Well, Mrs. Perjure, my PA student tells me that your mysterious rash just showed up suddenly yesterday?
- Patient: YES AND IT IS REALLY ITCHY!
- Cranquis: Well even though you told the student that you haven't been around any plants lately, the rash really looks like poison ivy...
- Patient: OH BUT I HAVE BEEN AROUND PLANTS, I SPENT ALL WEEKEND PULLING OUT WEEDS FROM UNDER THE PORCH!
- PA Student: *sputtering helplessly*
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”
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Neil Gaiman (via divineisinyou)
Agreed!!
(via bluegypsy)
“Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”
—Steve Maraboli
“Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it’s not. It’s all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.”
—Carolyn Crane (via myquotelibrary)
“I love finding gems. However I’m not talking about ludicrously expensive diamonds, or priceless sapphires. I mean the impetuous, primitive rushes of passion and love we experience so rarely that they become impossible to ignore. That overwhelming sense of selflessness and beauty. Hope and desire. Happiness and strength. These are the moments that define us as people. As individuals. Should it be falling in love, playing a guitar for the first time, donating to charity, meeting new people, staying up till three in the morning listening to old Bob Marley Vinyls or beating the elite 4 on Pokemon. Whatever it is, it’s moments like these that are worth more than any gem or diamond. Treasure or material goods.”
—George MacDonald (The Runaway State)
And in other news..
our garden’s dead, didn’t make it.
Considering planting Bonzai trees, they are difficult to kill (however, mine did freeze, then tumbled down a flight of stairs breaking into small pieces back in college).
“When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.”
—Bertrand Russell, “Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?”, 1947
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For You (Layla)
My gift to you will be this:
A heart full of happiness
Often eclipsed by
Longing
Gingersnaps on autumn
Afternoons
Being myself at all costs
A poem you’ll find
Tucked into something
On ordinary days
And love when you need
It the most
“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don’t feel or look so stupid.”
—― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
One of those nights:
- need to set a better example for my daughter
- need to spend less, think more
- need to stop compensating for… have no idea what
- perhaps it’s boredom
- perhaps it’s the weather
- perhaps I’m rotten & lack contentment
