February 2012
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U.S. Law Enforcement Officials Call on Canadian... →
“Through our years of service enforcing anti-marijuana laws, we have seen the devastating consequences of these laws,” the letter states. “Among the greatest concerns is the growth in organized crime and gang violence. Just as with alcohol prohibition, gang violence, corruption and social decay have marched in lockstep with marijuana prohibition.”
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Studying for my WFTDA Certification test
38) Gross misconduct includes which of the following? a) Punching another skater b) Choking another skater c) Jumping on a dog pile d) All of the above
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Censor 'Gay'? No Way! - St. Petersburg... Don't Go... →
February 20, 2012. In just one week the city of Saint Petersburg could pass an outrageous bill that will make it a crime to read, write, speak or meet to discuss anything considered “Gay.”
The Governor of Saint Petersburg has the power to veto this bill. And we know he doesn’t want his city - known around the world as Russia’s cosmopolitan “window to the west” - in...
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The Blue and White City
Essaouira, Morocco via The Sartorialist
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In December, Arizona lawmakers passed the controversial bill known as HB2281,...
– Censorship In Arizona: Who’s Afraid Of An Educated Latino? (via thetart)
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Listen to the musn’ts, child,
Listen to the don’ts,
Listen to the shouldn’ts,...
– Shel Silverstein (via nicolinger)
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What I found out about blues and music, tracing things back, is that nothing...
– Keith Richards, Life (via)
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Post-Regime: Should We Use the Term "Arab Spring"? →
postregime:
I’m surprised at how uncontroversial the use of this term has been in the United States.
As’ad AbuKhalil over at the Angry Arab thinks the term fails to convey the struggle that many of these revolutions are, writing:
That lousy name should not be used to refer to Arab uprisings. How…
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James Franco x 7 For All Mankind →
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Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here. (via cognitivedissonance)
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REBLOG IF U REMEMBER FERN GULLY
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On Love
Thou demandest what is love. It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope behind ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were...
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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They Will Say We Are Not Here →
The filmmakers explore the motivations, sorrows and dreams of the slain Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato.
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It is relentless, the suddenness
of every other
song, creature, neighbor
as...
– from Nate Klug’s, “Dare” (via poetryeater)
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