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I can think of at least one way in which Ghostface Killah has had a direct influence on my daily life.
In one of the "World According to Pretty Toney" segments that was on one of the MTVs I think, he told dudes to not wash their balls before washing their face, cuz that's nasty.
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Obama called the recent arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates inside his own home a "teachable moment" about the realities of race in this country. As a white person, I would like to impart my own teachable moment, perhaps the first time I came to recognize the phenomenon of white privilege ( Read more... ) -
live long and die out
I have a Pol Pot lodged in my subconscious.
As well as a conservative, Catholic schoolboy
And a proto-fascist white supremacist xenophobe
And a green, insurrectionary anarchist
And a mild-mannered liberal
And an apolitical, disaffected hipster
And a Jihadist
I think it helps to acknowledge our dark sides.
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Writer's Block: Look at Me/Don't Look at Me
LOL THIS IS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE, Y'SEE
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"The School" by Donald Barthelme
This is one of the best, funniest, weirdest short stories I've ever read. I want to share it.
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i am in portland
and am extremely grateful for family and fate.
soon i will rid myself of this.
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"
-J.K. Galbraith
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From Matt Taibbi's "interview" with G.W. Bush in Rolling Stone.
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GWB: We were in bed one night, watching TV, and we saw this thing on the news about some poll in the Middle East showing that I was the most hated man in the Arab world, getting three times as many votes as the second-place guy, who was Ariel Sharon. And I said to [Laura], "Jeez, ( Read more... )
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