February 2012
89 posts
If I could, I would read until the blood in my...
Top five regrets of the dying
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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“Unlike food stamps, nobody is debating making middle-class households take a...”
– Dissecting Romney’s Statement: What Are Problems the Middle-Class Has That the Poor Don’t? | Rortybomb (via abbyjean)
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via dishevelment)
Josefina Vázquez Mota to run for Mexican... →
politicalthinker:
Excellent news from Mexico!
Josefina Vázquez Mota, a former education minister, won Sunday’s nationwide poll of members of the National Action party (PAN) with around 55% of the votes cast. Her closest rival, the former finance minister Ernesto Cordero, took 38%.
“I am going to be the first female president in the history of our country,” the 51-year-old mother of three...
Watchdopefaqqotbarbie:
official310:
nigga said pizza, ctfu.
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City Of Berkeley Plans To Pull $300M Out Of Wells... →
climateadaptation:
Why isn’t this viral?
citymaus:
In what may be the most damaging blow to Big Banks since the overwhelming success of Bank Transfer Day in late 2011, the City of Berkeley recently announced its intention to withdraw all financial assets from Wells Fargo.
On Tuesday night, the City Council voted unanimously to find a more socially-minded institution to hold approximately...
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the...
“I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and...”
– Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, an officer turned whistleblower who disputes the official narrative about Afghanistan. Read his full article at the Armed Forces Journal and the New York Times story about how he became a whistleblower. (via govtoversight)
