“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle for those who wish to learn.”
—Cicero (via superfluidity)
April 2010
“It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.”
—Henri Matisse (via forwhenifeellikesharing)
“So a guest on Glenn Beck claimed that health reform is racist because it imposes a special tax on indoor tanning salons. That’s ridiculous, of course. Everyone knows that the tanning tax was an act of personal vindictiveness aimed at the House Minority Leader.”
—Paul Krugman dropping the oh snap. (via southpol)
March 2010
Involuntary dieting
Thanks stomach virus / food poisoning. I may feel like utter shit (I really do not know why I came to work today, I’m probably going to go home soon) but my current diet of Pedialyte and Gatorade is going to do wonders for my figure.
Who needs solid food when you can feel like death and lose weight the easy way?
Staying positive y’all.
Urgh
I think I need to go to the doctor.
alright, question time:
what brought you to tumblr?
what made you decide to stay?
I was brought to Tumblr by some friends who started using it in 2008. I was still using Livejournal back in those days, but Tumblr better suited my habits of posting pictures and videos.
While I originally joined to follow those friends it did not take me long to start following others. I was (and am) often bored at work and Tumblr quickly became a source for media that updated throughout the day with new images, links, videos, songs, news, etc. I’m a whore for new information and multimedia, so I stay around for that.
The social aspect is also compelling. I’m generally not very social outside of my small friend group even on the web (I don’t use Facebook much, and I never followed more than ten Livejournals back in the day), so it’s been a nice change of pace to feel like I’ve been able to get to know some people via this little tube for media consumption in addition to putting myself out there a bit more.
Unshocking news is unshocking
The earth is round, the sun is hot, too much black bile makes you melancholy, and Ricky Martin is gay.
“Telling City Council members it was inexcusable that Chicago still used such outdated methods as pen and pencil to falsify financial records and conceal kickbacks, Daley called for the purchase of some 10,000 overpriced computers, which he said would allow the city to digitize no-bid contracts, electronically transfer misappropriated funds, and keep better track of who’s on the take.”
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City Of Chicago To Modernize Outdated Graft Programs | The Onion (via southpol)
This could just be a real story.
Half Of Americans Say They'd Support An Openly-Gay President (POLL) →
huffingtonpost.com
Fifty percent of Americans say they’d support having an openly gay President of the United States, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll shows. Forty-four percent would be opposed to having a gay president in office.
The poll asked respondents how they’d feel about having openly gay contenders in a variety of positions, including Supreme Court Justice, Secretary of State, Commissioner of baseball and Super Bowl quarterback. Out of these choices, a potential president polled the lowest, with Super Bowl quarterback winning the highest rate of support, 62 percent to 29 percent opposed.
Out of the other political positions polled, 55 percent of respondents said they’d support an openly-gay Supreme Court justice 55 percent to 40 percent who would oppose, while 56 percent would support an openly-gay Secretary of State and 39 percent would oppose.
This kind of shocks me, but in a good way.
