March 2012
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"Loins of Punjab Presents"
I love the comfortableness of the typical Indian movie, but the odd quirky one can be quite entertaining.
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“Because if we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when...”
– Emmett Till: Faulkner Calls Lynching Test Of Man’s Survival WILLIAM FAULKNER / Chicago Defender p.3 24sep1955
William Faulkner on Emmett Till, 60 years ago.
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“Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman...”
– distractedbyshinyobjects
re: feministing - for women, heart attacks look different
Things I did not know, but should.
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Relevant - because I am 19 years old and I only learnt that back-pain was a symptom of heart attacks in women yesterday
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Afghanistan in 2012 (so far): A Summary
thepoliticalnotebook:
Most notable things that have gone badly in Afghanistan just recently:
The horrible massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier. That soldier is reportedly being held in Kuwait at the moment.
Marines peeing on dead Taliban… and videotaping it.
The Ulema Council’s harsh, restrictive guidelines on women, which was backed by Karzai.
Today, the Taliban pulled out of...
“Obama is the son of a white mother and a black father, a marriage that remains...”
– Poll: Obama’s a Muslim to many GOP voters in Alabama, Mississippi
I’m sorry, 29% of GOP voters in Mississippi and 21% in Alabama believe interracial marriage should be illegal? What century is this?
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