#baddasses

[xxtakinitlikeachampxx-archi-blog]

This is hardly worth fightin' for     But it's the little petty shit that I can't ignore.         When my fist hits your face             And your face hits the floor.

[niledot]

10+ Pics That Prove Corvids Are The Biggest Baddasses In The Animal Kingdom Crows are the most badass birds in the animal kingdom who give zero ducks. Want proof? Just take a look at any of the pictures below.

[cywehner]

Pretty amazing band :D

[pdxrain-blog]

I may have already posted this, but whatever.

This is a fascinating interview by Gloria Steinem with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo who spent 12 years meditating in a cave in the Himalayas. 

[modernrambler]

Short Reviews: Edmund Morris' Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy

"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," "Theodore Rex," and "Colonel Roosevelt" comprise Edmund Morris' three-part biography of Theodore Roosevelt.  I admit I have not read anything else on TR—but I find it impossible to think I've missed anything about him.  That's just how damn good these books are.  "Rise" is probably the best of the bunch, though, if anything because you're anxious to see TR become president; once he does, the impending doom of the end of his term, and, subsequently in the third book, his failed 1912 run and his death, much of the momentum is lost.  But Morris' writing never falters, which is an accomplishment.  His description is perfect and poetic.  He teases out the motivations of all his characters (read: real people). He manages never to lionize TR, and nor does he make him out to be a jingoistic monomaniac/egomaniac, either, as TR's critics have leveled against him.  TR emerges as an obsessively curious man, a brilliant if pedantic leader, genius in his foresight (foreseeing such things as a bulk of the conflict that led up to WWI and WWII) but often lacking in his emotional depth.  There really aren't a better set of biographies out there, at least that I've read.  If you're at all interested in TR, these are a must-read. TR is perhaps the most fascinating American, and surely one of our "best" presidents (if "best" can really be measured).  

[modernrambler]

For great work of literature there is the same demand now that there has always been; and in any great work of literature the first element is imaginative power. The imaginative power demanded for a great historian is different from that demanded for a great poet; but it is no less marked. Such imaginative power is in no sense incompatible with minute accuracy. On the contrary, very accurate, very real and vivid, presentation of the past can come only from one in whom the imaginative gift is strong.

Thedore Roosevelt

[modernrambler]

In time of trouble, the unconsciousness of children is often a great comfort.

Theodore Roosevelt

[modernrambler]

A poet can do much more for his country than a proprietor of a nail factory.

Theodore Roosevelt