May 2013
55 posts
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare...”
– Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)
“The quicker we all realize that we’ve been taught how to live life by people...”
– Joe Rogan (via sirmitchell)
Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is seeing her young... →
wilwheaton:
She was kicked off the basketball team because of the potential for “drama” her presence created. She’s been vilified by fellow students, called “criminal,” “rapist” and “child abuser.” She was expelled from school. And far worse. She’s facing a lifetime label of “sex-offender,” because the other girl’s parents brought criminal charges against her despite the fact that the...
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“You sit in the back of the class because you’re ashamed of your hand-me-downs....”
– Clayton Cubitt (via seanbonner)
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sociolab:
Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes? That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood. Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.
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Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark... →
seanbonner:
wilwheaton:
Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But the extent to which the CIA shaped the film has remained unclear. Now, a memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes...
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