"It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written. A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence.

Only one answer: write carelessly so that nothing that is not green will survive."

— from Paterson, bk. 3, “The Library,” sct. 3, by William Carlos Williams. (via thetargetbird)

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"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticises it can expect to hear: ‘But what would you replace it with?’ When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?"

— Thomas Sowell (via anarchei)

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Harlem, New York

» Pharmacists in Kansas can now deny women access to birth control

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» Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild makes it increasingly evident that there was and is a nationally coordinated campaign to disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement.

"Racism in America’s police force is linked to their role as keepers of the status quo in an unequal society. They enforce laws written by politicians on behalf of the wealthy — laws that end up trapping poor and working-class people in desperate lives. Racial and sexual minorities, legal and illegal immigrants are seen as threats to the social order."

— Nicholas Powers, “‘They Think We Are Animals’: How America’s Police State Controls Black People” (via ftm-communist)

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» Salvation Army Pulls Advertisements from Rush Limbaugh Show | Faith in Public Life

The Salvation Army Midland Division stands by the national Salvation Army’s statement. The ads that ran on local KMOX were not intentionally placed on The Rush Limbaugh Show and we have instructed the station to keep any of our future ads off of that program.

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fuckyeahspaceexploration: first ever photo of the Earth and the Moon in the same frame, 1977. Taken by Voyager 1.
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

— Charles Kingsley

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