Because I am sick of FaceBleugh.

What if democracy is just an illusion?
In their 1846 book The German Ideology, Marx and co-author Frederick Engels took a look at human history and made a plain but controversial observation. In any given historical period, the ideas that people generally think are the best and most important ideas are usually the ( Read more... )

That noted Communist rag, Forbes, is at it again.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/11/why-the-we-are-the-53-tumblr-matters-its-the-culture-war-stupid/
Conservative individualism - the sense ( Read more... )

EDITED TO ADD, via northbard:
Bridges on the Don Valley Mountain Bike Trail have been sabotaged. Please inspect all bridges before proceeding!!

Fran Lebowitz is so cute. I like how she talks about herself in 3rd person, like Bob Dole. And she's such a Luddite.
So even low technology I find troublesome. Basically with computers it’s a typing thing. I don’t ( Read more... )

Another link dump! Get your links, free ( Read more... )

fd_midori offers advice on How To Make Love to a Zombie. Thought I'd share this before Easter was over and Zombie Jesus put to rest for another year.

And let no one say I discriminate in my ritual slights -- here's an Abbreviated Passover Seder: The Two Minute Haggadah - a Passover Service for the Impatient.

Happy International Women's Day.

[err, I meant to post that earlier. With some content. But I left the tab open on the other computer. Go me!]

Have some links to stuff I've been reading instead:

Maria Agnesi, the first woman appointed university professor; linguist, mathematician, philosopher, theologian.
Henrietta Lacks, an ill and poor Black ( Read more... )

Goat Leads Texas Authorities on Chase Through Taco Bell Parking Lot, University Dorm Area.

The goat didn't do anything wrong. Sounds like goat profiling. But at least it didn't steal any cheese!

Naked Woman Tied To Tree In Tacoma Park Not A Problem.

West Coast tree huggers: srs bzns. Alternate ledes, pending genus: Arboreal Perverts Fuck Yew / ( Read more... )

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This post is 100% celebrity death news free. This line excepted. I just needed to close some tabs. All news cribbed from other people's LJs, apologizes to those who see some of it twice.

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The website of the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County, Maryland has now been purged of the offending letter, but it was widely reported that previously ( Read more... )

New syndicated feed: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/whatwentwrong7/profile
This is vivian_shaw's brand new blog about life's endless litany of disasters. No, not like you taking a drink of curdled milk from the carton, more like Chernobyl blowing up ( Read more... )

Katie West, a.k.a. diosa_en_disfra, wants you to buy her book:
( it doesn't mean you don't have to also get her a wedding present! )