"We don't think the government can solve all of our problems, but we don't think that the government is the source of all of our problems; anymore than our welfare associations, or corporations, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group we're told to blame for our troubles."

Because we understand that this democracy is ours.

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I went on a feed-clearing frenzy last night. Pinning, buffering new content, reading news articles - all within a set time limit. I thought I was being productive, when in actual fact, it proved quite the opposite. I was unable to fully grasp the material of any one article, and what I knew was a mere extension of the headlines. Not quite the ( Read more... )

Purpose, then, is the hunger you and I have for transformation to transform us; not merely to endow us with a sense of exhilaration, gratification, or pleasure, but to bring us closer to completion, fulfillment, wholeness; not merely the appetite for the possession of McStuff, but the hunger to be possessed by a sense of meaning.

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I really think it's about more than promoting Kony 2012. These are the people who kick-started an entire revolution, who proved that our generation (the Millenials - born after the 1980s) are not an apathetic bunch of spoilt brats with a distorted sense of the world. They ignited a fire, a passion and a desire to get up and do something, even if ( Read more... )

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"This witty yet piercing commencement speech  is one of my favorite reads. It resonates deeply with me as I am about to graduate from college. I'd like to share it with you guys as I hope that not only new grads, but everyone else can benefit from it, too.

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Written by Adrian Tan, author of The Teenage Textbook (1988), was the guest-of-honour at a ( Read more... )

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A video of Dave Caroll, whose Taylor guitar got manhandled (they witnessed it being thrown) by United Airlines baggage handlers, and when he lodged a complaint, he was treated with indifference. Fixing the 3.5k guitar cost him 1k and somehow it doesn't sound the same as before, so pissed off, he did a MV. Since then his video's had 5mill over hits ( Read more... )