middle cyclones and other references
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Final GPA: 3.58
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Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
I think one of you must have put this on a mix that I downloaded at some point because I was able to put it on...
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Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Scott Widak has Down syndrome and is terminally ill with liver disease, and he loves to receive mail. So his...
Elephant seal pup scratching off his molting fur. - Cuverville, Antarctica
Submitted by: aarsbolt
I’m sort of just using it as an excuse to heckle with nearly complete ignorance. For example, the Philly Flyers have some gross lookin’ gingers on their team.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton: The first time I ever saw Bill Clinton, he was standing in the hallway outside the law library at Yale, which is this wonderful gothic structure, and he was surrounded by all of these fellow classmates who were trying to convince him to be on the Yale Law Journal
- Bill Clinton: I said "look, I'm going home to Arkansas. I'm not gonna get a big Wall Street job, I'm not gonna go clerk on the Supreme Court, I'm going home to be a country lawyer"
- HRC: And he was listening politely, but he was watching me because I was watching him. I was at this long table studying, and I finally thought "this is, you know, kind of silly"
- BC: And finally she just put down the book she was reading and walked the entire length of the law library and walked up to me, and she said-
- HRC: "If you're gonna keep looking at me and I'm gonna keep looking back, we at least ought to know each other. I'm Hillary Rodham-"
- BC: "- and what's your name?" I couldn't believe it.
So NOW I am going to stay up all night writing a lab report and watching Kitchen Nightmares on Netflix because that’s what my life choices are right now.
On a related note, who has suggestions for TV shows I should tackle? Some of them might be new. Have at it.
What’s your favorite movie moment?
Oh God, guys, Viola Davis is just too muchy for me. She uses words like “revelation” and “art” and she gets all breathy and I can’t do it, guys, it’s too much sincerity for me. If she wins I’m just going to need earmuffs for her acceptance speech.
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Procrastination Theatre: January 10, 2011
This, I watched on my own. And like, yeah, of course it was the fucking weirdest thing ever. But has any read the book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins? The movie was boring compared to the book. Plus Uma Thurman is so super pretty, guys. And Keanu Reeves dresses up like a Native American and then has an asthma attack and then is in the sky while Uma Thurman masturbates with her huge thumbs and then is never in the movie again. REALLY. And Crispin Glover grabs Uma’s breast. And John Hurt is a crossdresser. And it’s like a giant explosion of hilarious weird.
(via pluralisms:certainshadeofmoreno)
Below are the law’s main prohibitions: prohibitions against any education programs that (1) “promote the overthrow of the United States government,” (2) “promote resentment toward a race or class of people,” (3) “are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group” and (4) “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”
“advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals”
since when is ethnicity not a part of an individual’s identity? doesn’t delving into the experiences and histories of an ethnic group help develop that individual’s identity too?
fuck you, arizona. fuck you.
““are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group” “
oh you mean like how “regular” history class is designed for white kids or…?
Ohhhhh boy. Look at me, ready to be the least liked person on Tumblr. And I want to say that, like, I’m not agreeing with whatever’s happening in Arizona (I have no idea what’s happening in Arizona, because all I can find is super left-wing Huffington Truth-Out crap on the subject, and that’s just such bullshit.) But, I do think that we should think a little more about what ethnic studies should be. Ethnic studies does have a place, but it’s not the place that a lot of people on Tumblr whose comments I kept above are suggesting.
Does no one realize that ethnic studies are themselves kind of super racist if you’re advocating them as a way to learn about one’s “identity”? I’d like to strongly recommend a book called Against Race, written by the extremely intelligent Paul Gilroy, which basically points out that today, arguments for “differences of culture” and “ethnic identity” have just taken up the spot that used to be occupied by racism. What is, really, the difference between saying that someone’s race determines their identity and saying that someone’s ethnicity determines their identity? There isn’t one. And the whole logic of race itself is something completely constructed, guys. Completely constructed. And perpetuating that same logic of division and difference through the culturally acceptable moniker of “ethnicity” is just ridiculous.
We should study something that approaches “ethnic studies” not to learn about our “identity”, but because these are important facets of history, and because reading South American or African literature doesn’t just get us, like, a way of knowing how bad white people screwed up. I mean, think about it. Reading an entire vein of literature as though it were nothing more than a diatribe against the white man is reductive to the vein of literature you’re studying! We should be reading South American or Asian or African literature and looking at their use of form; seeing how their use of form intersects with history; seeing the interesting ways in which global literature diverges at certain points. That’s what so-called ethnic studies should look like - not a racist reservoir for “identity”, and not a constant gush of white liberal guilt.
