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"They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are awakening from a dream which is turning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. To be engaged in fighting for freedom, you have to first free yourself from the chains of ruling ideology. When you criticize capitalism, don’t allow yourself to be blackmailed that you are against democracy."

— Slavoj Zizek (via fifteenminuteslater)

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April 17, 2012
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The powerful and horrifying photo that won this year's Pulitzer Prize

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April 16, 2012
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Think Progress: Rick Santorum: Thanks for the memories

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Some of Santorum’s more outrageous comments:

- “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better” with taxpayer money (which he of course qualified as “blah” people).

- He said women aren’t capable of serving in combat because there would be “emotions that are involved.”

- “I…

April 10, 2012
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Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Or just simply, happy Sunday to you!

April 08, 2012
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April 06, 2012
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The Assault on Public Education -- One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates...

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By Noam Chomsky

Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere.

California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Timesreports on another chapter in the campaign to destroy what had been the greatest public higher education system in the world: “California State University officials announced plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot.”

Similar defunding is under way nationwide. “In most states,” The New York Times reports, “it is now tuition payments, not state appropriations, that cover most of the budget,” so that “the era of affordable four-year public universities, heavily subsidized by the state, may be over.”

Community colleges increasingly face similar prospects–and the shortfalls extend to grades K-12.

“There has been a shift from the belief that we as a nation benefit from higher education, to a belief that it’s the people receiving the education who primarily benefit and so they should foot the bill,” concludes Ronald G. Ehrenberg, a trustee of the State University system of New York and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.

A more accurate description, I think, is “Failure by Design,” the title of a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute, which has long been a major source of reliable information and analysis on the state of the economy.

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April 06, 2012
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Ten Things I Want To Tell Teenage Girls

Yes, girls, listen up.. good advice here.

April 03, 2012
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Heart of Life - John Mayer (by plumpkinproductions)

Cute video and song! A good pick-me-up.

April 03, 2012
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"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."

— Dalai Lama  (via enlighteningnews)

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March 31, 2012
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