eastofethan

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Difficult’ and ‘boring’ are the chief reasons for failing to finish. And yet this novel has stood the test of time, towering over modern literature, inspiring generations of lesser mortals. The question is ‘why?’

One of Joyce’s most vociferous and eloquent advocates in...

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best fucking post ever

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“A few more years and I would know more than I knew then. But the loop, the circle, would be swinging on away out into space again where you can’t ask grown people because you can’t talk to anybody, not even the others your age because they too are rushing on out into space where you can’t...

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selucha:

Ciudad Caribia, a new socialist model city being constructed in Venezuela. It was conceived as a new type of self-sustaining, ecological population center that encourages walking rather than driving, environmentalism rather than waste, and communal values rather than individualism. The plan includes many communal buildings and parks, broad walkways and few vehicular roads, and will be largely run by the locally-elected communal councils rather than by a traditional governmental system.

The city was inaugurated a few days ago with 602 families, most former residents of Federico Quiroz and Nueva Tacagua who were displaced during the mudslides late last year, moving into their new apartments. They officially signed the papers transferring the use-ownership of the land to the new residents during a televised celebration. Ownership gives residents the right of use to their apartment and to the city, but does not give them the right to sell or rent it, or in the case of the city to sell its land or buildings. Hugo Chavez has set the goal of 20,000 units being finished in the city by the end of 2018, accommodating up to 100,000 people, and another 800 apartments will be ready for occupation by the end of this year. Construction is underway also for local industrial centers to employ the population.

Apartments are three bedroom, two bath and are really nice. The cost is subsidized by the state depending on family income: families who earn below minimum wage have the cost subsidized 100%; those that earn minimum wage, 80%; those that earn double, 54%; and even those that earn three times the minimum wage will still receive a 28% subsidy for apartments already priced far below market value.

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You cannot be a feminist and oppose a woman’s right to choose. You can be a feminist and be uncomfortable with the notion of abortion. You can be a feminist and communicate that discomfort to third parties. You can be a feminist and choose never to have an abortion yourself. You can be a feminist and support greater rights and opportunities for young mothers everywhere so that fewer women will have to choose between pregnancy and their career. You can do all of these things and be a feminist. What you cannot do is stand in the way of any other woman’s moral and political right to reproductive self-determination. There is a world of difference between being against abortion on a personal basis and supporting, or leading, movements to make the practice illegal. There are no good arguments for making abortion illegal, a policy which, where it has been tested in other nations, has been shown to lead directly to hundreds of thousands of adult women dying in horrific pain along with their unborn children following illegal backstreet terminations. Distasteful as you may or may not find it, women will always seek to terminate unwanted pregnancies. The very least we can do in civilised societies is make it safer for them to do so, along with facilitating access to contraception in order to reduce the number of terminations that need to take place…

Penny Red: Palin and the gender agenda. (via jerseyjezebel)

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subconciousevolution:

So long as women are not free, the people are not free

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The Bronze Fonz in Milwaukee, WI.

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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it. Basically because you feel good, very good when you are near them.”

Charles Bukowski (via soul-surfer)

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fuckyeahtattoos:

This is my favorite tattoo, it is a painting by Charles Gilbert, titled All is Vanity. I love this era of art, and how it is an illusion, from afar it looks like a skull and close up it is a women in a mirror. It was done at the Jesters Court, Southside in Pittsburgh, by Michael Patrick. He’s a great guy and artist, I can not say enough great things about him and his work.

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I Heart Classic Quotes: Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights

[via-incognita-blog]

The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment—or at least much handicap—to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need

Michael Parenti (via via-incognita)

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fistwavingfeminism:

No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret.

“She got what she wanted,” said Stokke. “She’s an overtly sexual person.”

Click link to read full article

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It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

George Carlin (via burningmagnolias)

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A List of 10 Reasons Why I Am Such An Avid Supporter of Gay Rights

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scornandritz:

Because I’m a human, and gay rights are human rights.

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