May 2012
28 posts
“Vice President Joe Biden today delivered a deeply personal and, at times,...”
– Joe Biden Reflects on Own Grief, Relates to Suicidal Thoughts - ABC News (via neon-loneliness)
Amendment One has passed in North Carolina.
wickedclothes:
Same-sex marriage is now officially banned in the North Carolina State Constitution, as well as civil unions and domestic partnerships.
A Poet Reflects: A Dialogue Between Soul and Body... →
apoetreflects:
A Dialogue Between Soul and Body
Soul: You’re the can and I’m the salmon, You’re the feathers, I’m the goose, You’re the shell and I’m the oyster— Love me, leave me, I can’t lose.
Body: I’m hearing voices—can it be My own tongue’s talking back to me? You armless, eyeless, witless…
“I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying...”
– Joe Biden becomes the highest-ranking official to endorse same-sex marriage. (via think-progress)
David Axelrod on Twitter: What VP said-that all married couples should have exactly the same legal rights-is precisely POTUS’s position.
(via joshsternberg)
“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via decaying-organic-matter)
April 2012
5 posts
“Something else raised him above the others as well: he had an open book on his...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via multitasker)
“I’d like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will...”
– David Farland (via libraryland)
March 2012
18 posts
“It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a...”
– V. S. Naipaul (via libraryland)
“Right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits—profits that...”
– President Obama this morning on why we’ve got to end subsidies for Big Oil (via barackobama)
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton (via katiekashmir)
