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)