Poetry

DemystificationA potent few lessons I am still having difficulty learning ( Read more... )

I was talking about language and swearing to Jess. I mentioned that there's a universal constant in language where human beings always seem to have a way of being able to say he/she bangs animals ( Read more... )

HERE ARE SOME THINGS WHAT I THINK ABOUT FEMINISM ( Read more... )

Oh apparently I am feeling whiny and verbose today so here's another thing ( Read more... )

And by "like me" I mean white middle class Londoners & ex-Londoners who are currently doing my fucking head in on Facebook for the following reasons ( Read more... )

1. I do not believe that 100% of any given country are physically or mentally capable of supporting themselves financially.

2. I do not believe that 100% of the people who cannot support themselves have families or partners who can or will support them financially for their whole lives ( Read more... )

ELITE:

-noun1. ( often used with a plural verb ) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons ( Read more... )

I liked America. It has a lot to recommend it. There is a culture of generosity of spirit and "can-do", of passion and ambition which are overlooked by a lot of Europeans; curiosity and a thousand, million cultures which have arisen and blossomed in the economic and geographic space. And the parts I saw at least - the west coast, from Seattle to ( Read more... )

Just back from a mildly shouty agreement with tutor regarding "creating a flexible and situation appropriate BALANCE between capitalism and socialism" which involved me yelling about planned economy, the failure of monetarism, areas the free market is not applicable to, and the other words that exit my face when That Bloody Woman comes up. \o/ I am ( Read more... )

The Watson Test. My mate Al has something good (and funny) to say about people who act like the Bechdel test is the only valid tool of filmic criticism out there. I'd add to his description that the people who mention it ad infinitum are usually a) people who have just found out about it and b) people who do not have the critical faculties to make ( Read more... )